
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)














