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Advisory Council

P.R.O.F. Advisory Council

PROF Center Educational Offerings November 2010 to November 2011

PROF Center Director Position Description

Current Activities: PROF Center
October 2011

Action Plan resulting from Sophomore Success Speakers

  • Common Read for Faculty (invitation)
    • Sophomores > 25% (books purchased through title V)
    • Read #1
      • Weimer, M. (2002). Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
        • Kim Palmer, Whitney Bischoff, Catheryn Weitman, Amy Poland, Rosemary Plank (signed up thus far)
    • Activity #1
      • Experiencing the Read
        • BCH 118: Faculty Presentation with Faculty as the Students
        • Class title:  “Teaching with Critical Reflection:  How to Create a Research Instrument: Group Project”
        • Evaluation: Portion of Peer Review from University of Dayton
  • Supervise Service learning Coordinator and Data Information specialist

PROF Activities Resulting from Title V Sophomore Success not associated with Speakers

  • Summer Seminar Series
    • Faculty involved: Alfred Addo-Mensah, Rex Ball, Whitney Bischoff, Firooz Khosraviyani, Kim Palmer, Gerald Pinzon, Xuesong Wang
      • Identified strategies based on speakers L. Schreiner and B. Tobolowsky to implement and measure in Fall 2011
      • Measurement and meetings in process

IRB # 2011-02-18: Sophomore Success Gap Analysis: Student Satisfaction Inventory and Institutional Priorities       

  • Survey completion:
    • Students: 212 completions
    • Faculty: 55 completions

IRB # 2011-02-16: Sophomore Success: Perceptions of TAMIU Students

  • Grounded Theory focus Groups
    • Participant number 40 native students or until data saturation
      • Current  25 and assessing for data saturation currently          
        • QDA Miner, Sim Stat and Word Stat used (Provalis Research)
    • Participant # 20 transfer students from LCC
      • Current 3; will do all 20 transfer students (issue is getting students to come in for focus group)

Activities Stemming from Title V: GREAT (Roberto Heredia)         See speaker handout attached

Activities Stemming from Nursing

  • Teaching 5302: Graduate Nursing Research 1900-2200 (part of job description)
  • Community Assessment Masters of Nursing Education and Masters in Administration (Collaborative Degree)
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