“Educate a Girl?? You Might as Well Attempt to Educate a Cat!”

Abstract

This article examines how materials collected by the Smith College Archives document the official life of the College, as well as the lives of undergraduates as they participate in student organizations, athletics, musical groups, and engage in other social relationships. It explores how the material has been collected, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the primary source material. It also examines how collections have been used to interpret what it was like to educate a woman in a single-sex institution at the end of the nineteenth century, and what it was truly like for the women who came to Smith to be educated. In addition, the article discusses a collaborative digitization project between the Five Colleges in the Pioneer Valley (Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts), funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation between 1996 and 1999, that made selected records on women's education available to the research community on the World Wide Web. [     

“To Save Them from the Dangers to Their Faith”

Abstract

This article explores the history of Catholic women's colleges and former women's colleges in the United States, with specific focus on student life in the mid-twentieth century. In the peak year 1956-1957, 42,900 young Catholic (and sometimes non-Catholic) women attended about 116 colleges, a significant proportion of the higher educational sector. These colleges helped acculturate many children of Irish, German, Eastern European and Italian families to middle-class American society, at the same time creating a specifically female and Catholic culture on the college campuses. This culture, which was characterized by the ideals of femininity, religion, and service, can be reconstructed through materials in the college archives: for example, through minutes of faculty committees and student organizations, records of college events, photographs, audio-visual material, scrapbooks, catalogs, and student publications. The archives of Catholic women's colleges are important in that they document a little-studied area of American life- Catholic women's culture-and furthermore show how it has changed and evolved up to the contemporary period.     

Bridging Generations

Abstract

Since 1994, undergraduate students at Rutgers University have had the opportunity to explore broad issues in the history of women's higher education by examining issues surrounding single-sex and coeducation at their own institution, with specific concentration on social issues and student culture. Four distinct seminars and projects, two of which incorporate oral history, and all four involving historical research in archival sources, have contributed to the historical literature and have added valuable documentation on the history of women at Rutgers University. This article presents an overview of these specific courses. It further provides an assessment from the particular perspective of a university archivist who attempts to document the history of the institution, promote the use of that documentary record by a diverse audience of users, including undergraduate students, and who has had the opportunity to teach two seminars on the history of women's higher education, using Rutgers as a case study. The courses to be discussed are: “Rutgers Women: A Living History” (1993-1995), a research seminar incorporating oral history of the first women students to enter the previously all-male Rutgers College in 1972; the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II (1994 to present), an ongoing project recording the memories of Rutgers men and women and their wartime experiences; the Douglass College Scholar's Program seminar on psychobiography (1998), a seminar which explored the life of Mary Clara Kangler, a 1938 graduate of the New Jersey College for Women whose tragic life ended in suicide; and the Douglass College Scholar's Program seminar on the history of the Douglass College and its role in the history of women's higher education in the United States (1999-2002), a research seminar based on archival research which explored the experiences of women and the controversial issues surrounding women's education at Rutgers.     

学生评价高等职业教育服务质量研究

本文针对我国教育质量保障的弊端,借鉴国际改善评价的经验,阐述了学生评价高等职业教育的服务质量研究的目标,分析了研究结果,并提出五点建议。     

在普通高校图书馆聘用学生助理的探讨

阐述了普通高校图书馆和学生助理的相互作用，着重探讨了在对他们的管理中应注意的问题。     

A Bibliometric Snapshot of The Journal of Higher Education and Its Impact on the Field

In recent decades the field of higher education has grown exponentially; however, little research examines a particular journal and its impact on the field. The purpose of this study was to conduct a brief bibliometric analysis and discuss the impact of The Journal of Higher Education (1998–2002), a premier journal in the discipline.     

大学图书馆教育功能创新的探索

高等教育教学改革的目标在于通过教育思想观念的转变,教材体系的建设,教学内容、教学方法的改革,通过现代化教学手段的运用,全面提高大学生的综合素质和创新能力,为实现科教兴国战略。培养具有科学精神和创新思维习惯的劳动者和专门技术人才。大学图书馆在高等教育改革中,发挥着第二课堂的独特功能和作用。它为大学生人文素质及综合素质的提高,完善知识结构,培养锻炼自学能力,陶冶情操,尤其是在培养大学生信息力,使其适应网络时代,知识经济对人才的要求等方面发挥重要作用。     

坚持先进办馆理念 促进事业发展--台州高教园区公共图书馆建设之回顾

论文对台州高教园区公共图书馆建设作了简要的回顾，总结了该馆能在短短三年时间里取得好成绩的主要原因。     

高校图书馆文化育人职责的审视与思考

文化传承与文化教育是图书馆区别于其它信息服务机构唯一特征,也是高校图书馆的基本职责。本文明确提出高校图书馆在培养学生价值观、传承大学文化、传播社会主流文化等方面的职责,并从构建图书馆文化体系、建立长效文化育人制度、培养图书馆员的文化追求、充分利用馆藏特色文化资源四个方面提出改进策略,以期充分发挥高校图书馆的文化育人功能。     

高职《成本会计》教学反思

《成本会计》课程是会计专业的一门理论性和实践性都很强的专业核心课程,在会计专业课程中起着重要的作用。高职成本会计教学的主要目标是向社会培养一些具备会计技能的实践技能型人才,但是成本会计课程体系复杂,高职学生基础薄弱,掌握起来有一定的难度,如何根据成本会计的特点教好成本核算内容,是作为会计专业教师一直思考的问题。我认为,在教学中应根据高职学生的特点,采取有效的教学措施来提高教学水平,让高职学生牢固掌握成本核算知识。     

从美国本科课程改革看我国高校图书馆服务创新

通过大学本科课程改革,美国提出了整体知识观的教育理念,目的是帮助学生构建起完整的知识体系,从而实现完整的本科教育目的。此举对我国高校现行本科课程体系调整有很好的参考作用,也对直接为高校提供文献保障的图书馆服务产生影响,图书馆必须在相关服务上有所创新。     

我国医学教育的开山之刊《医育》

为廓清中国医学各学科期刊的发展脉络,运用文献考证和编辑学方法对创刊于1935年10月的《医育》月刊做了首次研究.确认其为最早的医学教育期刊.将其特色归结为:反映医学教育的发展进程和水平、反映医学院校发展概况等,并对其动态栏目设置,编辑点评和倡导学术争鸣、倡导医学论文的规范化,倡导教、研相长和编、研相长等编辑思想和方法做了分析.     

高校二级教代会操作程序与运作机制的思考

高校二级教代会是校级教代会的延伸和补充,是高校实行民主管理和民主监督的重要组织形式.本文着重就二级教代会的操作程序、运作机制和相关问题展开讨论,以推动这制度的进一步完善.     

Standing at the Gates: A New Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education

ABSTRACT

There have long been complaints about the legal research skills of law school students and recent graduates. In this article the author focuses on the period between the release of two important reports on legal education, the MacCrate Report in 1992 and the Carnegie Report in 2007, examining how law librarians and other professionals involved were engaged in responding to the problem. The author concludes that if law librarians want to be involved more fully in legal research education, some changes or reexamination of our professional culture and positions may be necessary.     

Formation of a talking space and gender discourses in digital diaspora space: Case of a female Korean im/migrants online community in the USA

This article explores an online community of female Korean im/migrants in the USA in order to investigate the formation of a digital diaspora of women on the web. Employing multiple research methods including in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and participatory observation, this article examines the largest online community of female Korean im/migrants in the USA (www.MissyUSA.com), focusing on how their unique talking space was created on this site and the ways in which the relevant gender discourses are presented and constructed in relation to their diasporic conditions. The findings show that these women's shared identity (i.e. being Korean, married, female, and living in the USA) is an important element in the formation and development of this online community, especially in the creation of a candid talking space – sokpuri – where they vent their innermost feelings about their lives in the USA. The Missy and ajuma are the two salient identity discourses and selective use and flexible appropriation of the terms are found. The ajuma image (less individualistic, more active in sharing information and helping others) is adopted when these women identify their online community as a place where the empowering ajuma spirit is alive; meanwhile, they still adopt the Missy image of a young, independent, and modern woman for their individual identities, despite its consumerist origin. Although the issues of housewifization and having an enhanced gender relationship are quite often discussed, this online community has a limitation in that it does not produce a consistent and systematic challenging voice.     

A Library Compliance Strategy for Regional Accreditation Standards: Using ACRL Higher Education Standards with Community and Junior Colleges in the Western Association of Schools and Colleges

The standards of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges provide accreditation guidance for two-year libraries in their jurisdiction. These standards are the basis for a successful evaluation of the libraries. However, the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education and the associated workbook provide significant guidance and assistance in crafting a successful assessment. The library at Windward Community College is used as an example of successful employment of this strategy to provide a thorough assessment, which was validated by the ACCJC accrediting visit. Appendices provide materials used by Windward library in the successful evaluation and are recommended for use by other libraries.     

A Mixed-Method Study of Undergraduate and First Year Librarian Positions in Academic Libraries in the United States

The aim of this study is to better understand the prevalence, scope, and unique challenges of undergraduate and first year librarians over the last decade, through the use of quantitative and qualitative data from job listings, online surveys, and phone interviews. The findings indicate that there is very little consensus about what the undergraduate librarian does, how the work is structured on a daily basis, and how its goals are negotiated and assessed. Further, undergraduate librarians face a number of issues, including navigating vaguely defined responsibilities, establishing their professional credibility, and communicating their role within the library and to the university. Survey participants reported experiencing tension between the traditional (reference, instruction, collection development) and undergraduate-specific aspects of their duties, indicating that it is difficult for them to prioritize engagement and outreach. While the literature on blended librarianship anticipates some of these issues, undergraduate librarians are unique because they provide an intersection between broader higher education priorities and the academic library. The author stipulates that the lack of definition, strain, and the perception of undergraduate librarianship as an entry-level position is incongruent with the importance colleges and universities place on undergraduate student success.