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Title
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A Comprehensive Model for Undergraduate Science Education Reform to Better Serve the Underserved
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Description
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Failure to succeed in introductory science classes is a barrier to diversification of the scientific workforce. In the early 1990s, it was found that Grinnell College students —particularly those of color, women, and first-generation college students⎯were entering Grinnell College with an avowed interest in pursuing degrees in the sciences but abandoning their academic goals when they failed to do well in introductory science courses. To address this problem, a program called the Grinnell Science Project was developed to help students overcome three barriers to success in the sciences. We developed this list of barriers from data analysis of performance and issues experienced by students as: (1) unsuccessful acclimation to college life; (2) ineffectiveness of traditional pedagogy; and (3) a lack of mentoring and role models. Results of this project reveal improved grades for domestic students of color, as well as comparable rates of science major completion and pursuit of graduate study for all groups of students. The culture of the Science Division has changed to reflect, both in architecture and in actions, a commitment to establishing a supportive and inclusive community to promote excellent science. The sciences have undergone major curricular reform, including revision of introductory courses throughout the sciences to provide more active and engaged pedagogies and provide increased opportunities for course-embedded and dedicated research experiences.
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Date Created
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2022
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PID
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grinnell:31979
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A Pandemic at the Library: Lessons from COVID-19 About Technology Needs For Remote Working During a Crisis
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Description
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In March 2020, during the COVID-19 crisis, Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, United States decided to close its campus and that the majority of its employees would be working remotely. The library technology team had to work with limited time to ensure that the rest of the staff could perform their tasks remotely. This poster discusses how the library technology team set staff up to work remotely and lessons learned and best practices for setting up library staff to work remotely during the next crisis.
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Date Created
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2020
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PID
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grinnell:28276
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Title
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Adoption of the No-Requirements Curriculum
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Description
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Paper by Beryl E. Clotfelter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, on the history of Grinnell College's no-requirements curriculum and the establishment of the first-year tutorial.
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Date Created
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2003
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PID
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grinnell:27788
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Facilitating Collaborative Metadata Creation for Faculty-initiated Digital Projects
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Description
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The usability and long-term preservation of digital humanities projects, such as a digital archive or other project built around digitized materials, depend on thoughtful and thorough metadata creation. The variety of expertise required to create highquality metadata for digital humanities projects practically requires a collaborative approach. Putting the call for collaboration into practice requires tools that are accessible and functional for all collaborators. Research on tools for metadata creation has tended to focus either on tools for librarians to manage digital project metadata or on tools for independent author metadata creation (Greenberg, 2003; Crystal & Greenberg, 2005). The literature has also tended to focus solely on the use of spreadsheets for metadata creation. Lincoln (2018) has discussed best practices for Google Sheets in archival metadata entry, and Broman and Woo (2017) have discussed best practices for spreadsheet data entry in general. This article positions tool selection and configuration as site of collaboration for the creation of digital project metadata through its examination of a Google Forms-based workflow for the creation and organization of metadata.
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Date Created
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2020
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PID
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grinnell:23345
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Title
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Facing Uncertainty: Norms and Formal Institutions as Shared Mental Models
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Description
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This paper presents a theoretical argument focused on how social norms and formal institutions operate as cognitive coping mechanisms among groupings of boundedly rational actors who face fundamental uncertainty concerning their political and economic environments.
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Date Created
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2019
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PID
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grinnell:27808
