posted Mar 30, 2011 8:55 AM by India McHale Menon
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updated Mar 30, 2011 9:46 AM
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On Friday, April 15, 2011, the annual Higher Education in Review symposium will feature the work of more than a dozen students. The theme of this year's symposium is "Learning in Society." Friends of HER and anyone interested in the practice and research of higher education are encouraged to attend. Unless otherwise noted, all events are in The Faculty Senate Room (Room 112) of the Kern Building. 8:30 a.m.
| Coffee & Breakfast
| 9 a.m.
| Welcome and Opening Remarks
Peter Moran, Editor, Higher Education in Review
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9:15-10:15 a.m.
| Session 1: Learning and Individuals- Individual and Organizational Factors Influencing Active and Collaborative Learning Among First-Years
Kadian McIntosh, Penn State - The Development of Measures of Holistic Student-Athlete Success for a Multi-Institution National Study
Dan Merson, Penn State - Student Departure as a Learned Phenomenon
Jared Rodrigues & Zeke Kimball, Penn State
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10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
| Session 2: Learning Within and Across Fields
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
| Lunch provided
| 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
| Session 3: Learning Environments
- Academic Socialization: A Comparative Study on the Experiences of U.S. and International Students in a Doctoral Program
Ghadah Al Morshedi & Kristen Lee, Penn State - Learning by Embracing An Unknown Society: A Meta-Synthesis of Study Abroad Programs
Yu Meng, University of Minnesota - The Era of Student Bureaucracy
Nate Sorber, Penn State - Black Faculty Members' Experiences of Academic Climate
Jessica Bennett & Jessica Harris, Penn State
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
| Session 4: Learning in Society
- Changes in Price Sensitivity in Higher Education Since World War II
Rodney Hughes, Penn State - "It Takes a Village": School-Community Partnerships in Rural America
Andrew Koricich, Penn State - Where to Go? An Analysis of Postsecondary Choices of High School Graduates
Juan Jara-Almonte & Kristen Lee, Penn State - The Squid and The Whale: William James and Charles Eliot
Zeke Kimball, Penn State
| 3:00 p.m.
| Reception celebrating the publication of Higher Education in Review,
Volume 8
4th Floor of Rackley Building
| 4:00 p.m.
| Happy Hour
Whiskers in the Nittany Lion Inn
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