Although police officers can be very annoying

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Near the end of the semester the place usually gets swamped by students because of end of semester papers being due.

No college student should have power over his or her voice.

I think a more innovative attendance policy would demonstrate a punishment that makes a student recognize missing too many classes is not a healthy way to strive in education.

I believe that there are ample occasions where a student being absent to class can be beneficial to his/her mental health, physical health, or academic success.

In the same way that you were a plumber you could talk to an electrician about all kinds of things that you share that aren’t necessarily just about you two getting together and building a house. That might be the metaphor of the day.”

schools to pass on her knowledge to our future.

She is extremely proud of him so she displays his artwork all throughout her office!

Im not going to be a athletic trainer

She even described an interdisciplinary project that we will do as students working with artists, computer scientists, philosophers, and social scientists we will focus on a common theme resilience. We will learn how to work together despite our differences and we will learn how we can learn from each other which i expect to be an exciting project.

Amy was never outdoorsy when she was younger she had a lot of fears when it came to the outdoorsy stuff.

Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy

The lab was in Fox park so it was nice to walk through the park while doing our interview.

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She is the professor of my Introduction to Environmental Science and Policy I class. The reason I chose Amy for the interview is because I know she is very experienced and involved in not only the field of environmental sciences but also biology and fields relative to what I would like to do. I didn’t know it before the interview but I found Amy to be quite interdisciplinary individual hearing about her studies, job experiences, and research projects.

This helped me to widen my knowledge to see things from a different perspective while adding my business operations perspective to the conversations.”

I would also suggest a class in public speaking and leadership skills.  These are skills that are transferable between fields and can make or break your career professionally.”

I have remained in majors that tie to business ever since.”

“We talk to students to show them and teach them how to integrate math and integrate movement into math and math into movement. Language arts reading being able to use your body to write letters to help kids reinforce what they learned in the classroom, in the gymnasium and for some kids they learn better that way. Some kids are kinesthetic learners than others. Science, art, music has a real big part.”

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With me trying to explore different areas of my Interdisplinary studies, I decide to interview Professor Lynn Johnson from Plymouth State University in the study of health and coaching. It was a nice lovely Thursday afternoon that I met her inside of her office. When I got into the office, I was looking around her room and I was fascinated with all the old things she had in her room.

Me: “Exactly, I think everyone should know that.”

I think a general biology course is important and definitely a course on how to write and how to communicate, definitely as much computer applications that you can get your hands on, and an art course too.”

When you go out in the real world, most people don’t just work within their field of study. You have to work with other people who weren’t in your direct field of study so knowing something about them and what they do is so important.”

“do physicians prescribe exercise for their patients who are obese as a means of treating the weight related illnesses?” This really interested me because it shows the importance of interdisciplinarity when working in a health related field – researchers, nurses, physicians, dietitians, social workers, and all other patient care staff must be aware of one another to give patient’s the best care possible.

It is important to understand that things are challenging, but it’s okay, you can make it through. Social work is a lot about helping others, and in order to help others, you first have to have an understanding of how people work, what they’re going to be feelings during this challenging time, and how you can utilize your resources to help them to the best of your abilities.

Which we’re not taught how to do.”

I wasn’t surprised at her answer of yes!

But something like a medical illustrator.

That last little touch made me laugh.  I was happy she mentioned that though.   I am awful at poetry.

Business people ask for biologists to create an ecosystem  pattern that the businesses can run from.  They put symbiosis to economic  models, the become entrepreneurs and they  try their hardest  to go eco-friendly.  Aside from business, mathematicians help out with the numbers side of phylogeny.  Geographers help out map out climates for these plants ecologists are studying.

It is a little spike that reaches for the sun so the animal can follow

As someone who has never conducted an interview, I quickly jumped into the first string of questions in order to avoid any awkward  silence.

and communication skills.

I have to say that a student centered environmentally stable learning community

Well, I actually had a hard time finding that balance between school and a social life. I actually ended up failing out of college my first time around. Eventually, I found something that I was emotionally connected to and school became much more enjoyable.

with me throughout my career.

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I think just connect

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The student will have one to two more years of student loans, but come out earning the same salary.  The idea is that it will help athletic trainers know more so they can be better in the clinic.  In the practical world I am not seeing it so I am having a hard time agreeing with it. 

I believe a lot depends on the interest and direction a student wants to take. Anyone should take music or dance since it benefits someone physically, mentally and emotionally. It also helps give people the ability to think. I believe also that students should get a liberal arts and science education.

I am into the music department here at PSU, I also sing as well. I believe that music can help and enhance our health

My undergraduate degree was psychology and after I graduated, I did a program which gave me a certificate to teach elementary up to 8th grade students. For graduate school I studied Health Education.

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Wow! So you have some talents up your sleeve?

I even switched majors a couple times in college because the first year of pre-requisites were so hard

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I see everyone as an opportunity to learn more about myself, my practice, my clients and the people in my life and around me. I utilize all interactions as a means of gathering more information.

conventional image of pipe-smoking professors in book-lined studies

I think students in the nursing industry should take an Ethics course as well as a Philosophy course, just because we deal with so many different types of people it is very important to have an open mind when it comes to caring for people and I believe these courses play a large role in nursing

We all try to plan and escape together to relax because we understand the importance of taking a break and leaving work, well at work.”

were sociology and anthropology. She stresses the importance of understanding the different cultures around us.

Well…as cliche as it sounds I really wanted to help people but I wanted to make change as well.. So that’s why I chose a program that would let me be a researcher.. So I could produce research that influenced policy as well as be a clinician and be a therapist and help individual people”

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Interview for Interviewing a Professor

Interview for Interviewing a Professor

For my interview

1) What was your path of education you took to get  to where you are now?

believed that students should take classes that trigger creativity and truly prepare you for your career.

engaged members of society

so many connections for you to find everything you need.

Public speaking is  the process or act of performing a presentation (a speech) focused around an individual direct speech to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them.

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Should inspire students: Seminars should inspire students to be more responsible for their education and their lives.

Utilizing the library: Everyone student should come down to meet the local librarians because they are great resources for help when you need it.

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FYS teach students how to access the internet and use it to their advantage of their profession. For example in this class we learned how to use our own website/blog, communicate through twitter and reach many different types of people through twitter by hashtags. This will help in the long run because students will know different variations of reaching out and communicating with their colleagues.

By learning these skills one is able to read passages and interpret them into their own thoughts and write or talk about them. FYS allow you to use many variations of digesting information and resources to help students do so.

Plymouth State and many other institutions have much to offer their students. These include writing centers, libraries, math help and many other academic centers included in the students tuition. FYS tell you about these things and encourage you to use them for all your academic help.

Learning is about making a mistake, so why should the grading system counteract that?

I am dyslexic

Overall, those 5 objectives might not be mastered, but will be improved upon once the first year seminar is over.

I can put my writing online all I want, but it won’t be seen if nobody follows me or knows where to look for it. I want to know how to look for others, reach out, so they can find me easily and see my work

In college I want all my work to have a purpose. That means getting it out to the public to read. This would make me feel like my work means something.

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Also, an objective the class should be geared toward is to make the students do something they aren’t really comfortable doing with their past educational experiences.

five most important learning objectives for a FYS

Being in a class where the students are actually asked how they want to be graded or how they want their attendance policy to be formed was like finding a diamond in the rough.

If students work

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torture is a way to motivate speech. So really anything CAN be a motivator

Well then you know what you introduce to the scenario, stress.

I would made the course so the students would grade their own papers first

only one attendance policy for the whole institution.

So that’s why Griffin believes professors should have obligatory classes with few absences allowed.

2 exempt classes is not enough.

These tweets that I have chosen

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If you have already paid for the class it should be your choice to make.

Some people also believe the professor should not have to go over the lesson again just for one kid.

David Romer writes, “A student who attends only a quarter of the classes averages a 1.79 (C-) in the course while a student who attends all lectures on average earns a 3.44 (B+)” (Romer 171).

The professor should allow students to come in late to class as well because they are the ones paying for their education

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A lot of this information can be supported by this article.

Enforcing attendance policies in college treats students more like adults because once you get a job you are only allowed a few days off without getting fired. But in my opinion professors should understand that students do sometimes have to miss class for serious reasons.

Giving extra credits to students with perfect attendance will give motivation to want to go to every class.

Attendance in college

I would make the students first complete a project about the topic of the test which would count for 50% of the test.

Sometimes after trying to had to reach perfection results in people giving up

All of the tweets presented were a part of an open discussion about attendance and grading.

tudents often get sick or are sometimes too flooded in work from other classes and have to prioritize their time for something else.

Not all our brains work the same way and some people take longer to process or retain information.

If you want to get good grades, it is mathematically proven that you are at a higher chance of excelling if you attend class rather than skip. Although, it does say that a mandatory attendance policy only shows a slight positive correlation so in reality it is okay to skip a few classes but not getting too carried away with skipping.

I feel like these kind of policies definitely give me a lot of responsibility but it also gives me the motivation

Once the student becomes comfortable with missing class, they probably won’t keep up not on the syllabus, therefore resulting in last minute scrambling or just simply failing the course. Getting yourself into a routine will save your life, and will keep you comfortable with going to class and getting yourself acquainted with the new found freedom.

For professors, I think it’s reasonable to be strict on attendance. It shows you care

It is your responsibility now, you are on your own and no one here to tell you what to do

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A study done by Bryan Stewart showed that students who missed classes regularly tended to have a higher probability to drop or fail the class.

Attendance Policies

Should class attendance be mandatory? Students, professors say no

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Especially since I am paying it would feel stupid to skip a class and throw away my money.

Students although they pay for these classes would rather not attend if they can still get a good grade.

No one goes to college for free so why are you just giving your money away?

its just weird to be referred to as “they”.

Students will succeed in a place where they feel valued. If a student is feeling like they don’t matter then that student will not want to be there. That student will not care and either drop the problem classes of drop the school. If you put students in an environment in which they are appreciated then they are much more likely to succeed, mainly because the student will feel free to express himself and participate actively in class.

This is a very interesting concept

If you have collaboration on a subject then you and all of those around can see the issue from different perspectives, enriching understanding.

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increasing student-to-student interaction, increasing faculty-to-student interaction especially out of class, increasing student involvement and time on campus, linking the curriculum and co-curriculum, increasing academic expectations and levels of academic engagement and assisting students who have insufficient academic preparation for college.

Students also need high expectations to be more successful. 

The article that I read

The First Year Experience

This BORING article talks about a study of students taking first year seminars during 1998-1999.

However, all these benefits seem to fall off once when we look at second year.

It improves their overall satisfaction for first year, but not second.

It’s shown that participants are less likely to remember what they were taught going into second year.

Hate brings people together.

BORING

Before you even jump in

It comes as a surprise that SAT scores doesn’t correlate with a students rank or even a persons GPA in college.

How do these changes sound to you?

Your first year seminar can really help you establish that base

Using each other when a professor is unavailable helps everyone out. With smaller learning communities, it’s more beneficial when students have multiple classes together so they can get to know each other better.

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This makes the students further engage in research of their own instead of taking notes on the results of previous research done.

First Year Seminar had an affect on satisfaction for first year students, but also had no affect with satisfaction and retention for second year students

Its not something id be interested.

My opinion on this article is well writen

It showed that the college careers those of students who didn’t take the course also.

multiple measures helped progress the eight cohorts in the first year if the student encounters with a fisrt year seminar

the satisfaction of colleges

The article I read tonight was very interesting

there is a direct correlation to the students that were working with a librarian and having more highly developed skills.

like what the heck even is information literacy,

when students were able to personally connect to the classwork they were subsequently more motivated to do work in the class

a pass/fail class led to kids waiting until the last minute do to the work and and not putting much time or effort in the assignments

Students can attend the most prestigious school available but if they aren’t motivated to do work they will fail 100% of the time.

People who do well in their first year seminars usually do well in their college careers according to studies done by top professionals. Each group for different seminar courses focus on an individualized subject. The subject is broad but is a correlated to student success in school. First year seminar courses usually have around 20 people. The goal of this class is to make the student more prepared for the future college life. The class brings the community together with discussion and strategy. Everyone works on the same page to resolve the area of study. The classes help tremendously with incoming freshman at Plymouth State University.

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People who do well in their first year seminars

but this was the generation we were brought up in. Times are changing, and students are evolving with it.

Coming from the student perspective, this sentence seems too general.

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Retention, Bonding, and Academic Achievement: Success of a First-Year Seminar

and this gives them a chance to shine and be excited about their future education career.

The article proves using specific numbers and showing percentage fluctuation.

colleges no longer were holding a class for first year seminars as the students were not getting the sufficient help they needed from their peers and other informal networks.

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from this informational article,

Whats wrong with the first year students

I read an article by Betsy O. Barefoot

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I believe that every first year class can provide this and it is not very different from every other class.

According to this article a first year seminar class is a better predictor of success than SAT’s and high school grades. 

I think that my success in our seminar class that we are building on our own will show more about the student I am because I get to structure what we are learning and how we go about spending class time. If I had been put in a first year seminar based on a topic I had little to no interest in, I think it would give a misread on my success in classes that I enjoy.

Meaning you can tell more about a student from how they  engage and perform in a first year seminar class rather than from the tests that schools hold us accountable for from high school.

“The First Year Seminar as a Predictor of Academic Achievement and Persistence”

It is safe to say freshman seminars provide a benefit to the student population

The article can be found here, http://csr.sagepub.com/content/16/4/593.full.pdf+html .

It was shown that after the course they had better study habits.

some of their schedules were more jam packed than others with things like jobs, and sports.

“Quantitative Evaluation of a First Year Seminar Program: Relationships to Persistence and Academic Success”

First Year Seminars do this perfectly by allowing the class to talk out loud and let everyone get involved on the activity.

using upperclassmen to offer more resources to first year

Ever since the start of First Year Seminars, the return rate of students has gone up over five percent.

The article I read

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Sustaining the mission of a public university these days requires acting like a private enterprise.

The problems to which the university is a response are hard problems, and there is no free lunch. Institutional solutions are generally second-best in the sense that they constitute the best solution that is feasible in the light of environmental constraints (in which case they are a defense), or they are less than second-best (in which case they are defective). As a necessary by-product of fulfilling their productive functions, the structures of the university have a tendency to ossify. It is precisely because the powerful incentives and protections afforded by these structures are intertwined with their potential for ossification that it is hard to disentangle where the defects of the university end and its defenses begin.

wanting to be therapists

I smile whenever I see one of those stickers

The 7 Humanities Professors go on to worry that the use of trigger warnings will lead to an expectation among students of such things for any material that is even remotely potentially offensive or disturbing, and a backlash against any professor who does not provide such a warning.

I think students should propose whatever they want.  Proposals are good. They get us talking about what we value and why.

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Public education should be free and open to the public. Society at large benefits significantly from open access to education. If we can fund trillion-dollar wars, we can fund public education. We simply choose not to. One of the engines driving the neoliberalization of higher ed is the lack of funding from the public. When there isn't enough money to go around, everything gets assessed first by cost. That will destroy all the best aspects of our universities.

require that teachers be thoughtful about their pedagogy and that they enter the classroom from a basic standpoint of respect for their students as human beings and as people capable of thought.

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