...program in Continuing Education. The author of this article is Arthur M. Langer and it was published in 2002 in Columbian University. My critique based on the five elements which are research question and problems, literature review, methodology, results and findings, discussion. After I read entire article carefully I identified how the article was organized. What author’s thought patterns, his way of thinking, evaluated Strengths and Weaknesses, how can findings be used in practice? This article explained that students should use journals in their studies for their researches. The purpose of this study was to describe the use of learning journals as vehicles for encouraging critical reflection among non-traditional students and to compare variances with studies among traditional students. An objective of the study was to understand how students in a technical computer class reacted to the requirements for learning journals. Qualitative method focused on whether learning journals show to be an effective teaching tool in science-based, adult learning. The purpose of this article critique is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses points for the components of the Langer’ article Langer (2002). Research Question, Conceptual Foundation, Methodology—data collection and data analysis section, Findings and Discussion. Research Question: The research question of the study Langer (2002) was “how using journals for education has impacted the process of learning of older students...
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...Balancing Values, Responsibilities and School for a Non-Traditional Student Jwendoline Hernandez Foundation for General Education and Professional Success GEN/200 April 28, 2014 Jillian Folger Values and Responsibilities Everyone at a very young age has values and responsibilities instilled in them. They are life lessons, principles and rules we are expected to live by. Ranging from how to live, what is right from wrong, how to treat ourselves and one another. Notwithstanding, as each lives their own lives each develops their own values and duty, amending old and creating new ones. Taking ownership of the consequences from the choices, decisions and actions one makes is considered by many as having personal responsibility. Traditional versus Non-Traditional Students Nowadays, it is more common to see individuals well in their years returning to school after having their own families and having professional experience under their belt. For many weighing their professional ambitions and family duties. Forbus, Newbold, Mehta (2011) conducted a research that reflects on the differences between the traditional and the non-traditional students’ expectations for the college experience. Noting that the non-traditional differ in interest, social activities, and levels of motivations from their counterparts. For the most part any college student, be it the traditional high school graduate or the non-traditional, have set goals entering postsecondary education. The...
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...Meeting the Needs of Non-Traditional Students Vickie Nylander N537 June 4, 2014 Dr. Bonnie Jean Beardsley Meeting the Needs of Non-Traditional Students The needs of the non-traditional student has become the focus of some institutions of higher learning. A shift in the profile of higher education students has taken place: At many institutions, the “traditional” 18- to 21-year-old student cohort is no longer the majority demographic. This study explores the impact on the academic success of nontraditional students attending a public research university in the United States. Institutional practices, policies and programs that enhance the success of the non-traditional students’ college career are identified. What is the scope of the critical issue? The non-traditional students make up at least 50% of higher education enrollments in colleges and universities. Coupled with these increasing enrollment rates, colleges and universities are now being confronted with the problem of the rising attrition rate among minorities, women, and under-prepared adults. The participation of these students on campus, therefore, has become the focus of a great deal of attention by non-traditional student academics. Non-traditional student is an American term referring to a category of students at tertiary educational institutions. The National Center for Education Statistics acknowledges there is no precise definition for non-traditional student, but suggests that part-time status and age...
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...Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education Teachers College Reflecting on Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education Langer (2002) central focus is plainly stated in the introduction, which is “how the use of journals impacted the learning process of adult non-traditional students and how this impact compared to that of traditional students”. The purpose of this article critique is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Langer (2002) article. The body of the critique will develop the five major elements, which begin with the research question/problem to include the author’s purpose for writing the article. The next element is the conceptual framework, followed by the methodology, results/findings of the study, and lastly the discussion. Even though the research question is stated clearly in the third sentence, the use of the terms former and latter in the introduction was somewhat ambiguous because the two comparatives were used early in the paragraph. The article mentioned traditional students, but it was unclear if they too were adults. The reviewer eventually determined that the traditional students were adults because the article stated that the computer technology certification courses were designed for adult students interested in changing their careers. Langer (2002) gave a clear purpose of his study, which was to understand the immediate and extended effects of journals as learning tools for working...
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...postsecondary education. This current trend is worthy of examination by universities as an important segment of their student population; this may potentially be able to increase graduation rates of American college graduates. The increasing number of adult learners enrolling in college can solve the problem with the decline in college graduate rates if a better focus on the unique variables on adult learners is made. Pre-assessments of the adult learner upon enrollment and throughout the degree plan, tailored curriculum and increased accessibility to resources which include effective mentorship to guide students toward success will help increase the graduation rate. Within this essay, I will be using the terms “adult learner” and “non-traditional student” interchangeably. According to Flint (2000), “NCES...
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...NAME INSTITUTION Instructor Date REFLECTING ON PRACTICE: using learning journals in higher and continuing education. Introduction. The article by A.M Langer (2000) explores the effectiveness of applying study journals in enhancing students understanding of technical courses. The author acknowledges existence of other scholarly documents evaluating the influence of journals in improving students understanding of applied courses such as mathematics and physics. He builds on the existing literature to establish a theoretical background of the study in the literature review. The literature review also identifies the knowledge gap that the study carried out by Langer seeks to fill. Langer argues that there is a significant lack of literature exploring the use of journals in enhancing the study of technical courses by nontraditional students (Langer 2000). He carries out a research to establish the effect of using scholar journals by nontraditional students undertaking computer technology classes in the University of Columbia. The scope of the study covers a population of ten students. According to the article, the sampling technique is unbiased as it has equity in gender and utilizes a random sampling method that entails selection of every tenth student in alphephetical order as per the last name. The selected group was required to submit journals to the group of researchers. The researchers sort to meet discrete objectives defined by the study. The objectives included evaluation...
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...USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SUMMARY: This paper will address my observations about the roles of social media, how it affects non profit organizations in term of marketing and fundraising from both negative and positive side BACKGROUND Social media is defined as “group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content” Kaplan, Andreas M.; Michael Haenlein (2010). Bringing organizations the ability to interact with the society, social media has been revolutionizing the way organizations doing marketing. It is obvious that every organization has a great need in in marketing itself, interacting and communicating with its members and society to keep them informed and engaged. For special organizations like non-profit ones, the need of effective communication channels at zero cost is likely greater, especially during challenging economic time today. And social media, currently, is likely the best choices for such organizations. EARTH HOUR-A SUCCESSFUL CASE OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR REACHING AND ENGAGING TARGET AUDIENCES According to Facebook early October 2012, Facebook now has more than one billion users each month and its one billion users have been responsible for 1.13 trillion “likes,” 219 billion photos and 17-billion location check-in. Being one of the “top of mind” social net work, Facebook is used by most of non profit organizations...
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... Team Research Paper Fundraising for a nonprofit organization in a weak economy is very uncertain; not many individuals or businesses have the financial means to lend money. Thus, it is imperative to use all approaches to fundraising. Fundraising for a nonprofit organization typically involves applying for loans, grants, and using other forms of government and public assistance. When implementing non-traditional approaches to fundraising, it is important to use every possible means of government assistance, community support, and family contribution methods because there are limited the country’s economic status. Raising money based on contributions, sponsorships, personal investments, seeking family support, applying for a loan, and obtaining government grants are all effective ways of fundraising for a nonprofit organization. Another way of fundraising for a nonprofit organization is to use creative ways of providing a service to the community. Community fundraising requires detailed planning stages such as creating a plans and goals, picking a team, knowing the audience or customer, targeting the audience, and showing appreciation ("Community Fundraising Inc.," 2012). For any nonprofit organization, funding is a must . Funding is generally sourced from grants and loans. When a government grant is...
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...6241-49 Ave Delta BC V4K4S5 Phone 604.952.0278 Fax 604.952.0276 www.lifestylecanada.com [pic] Building Customer Loyalty with Relationship Marketing LIFESTYLE BUSINESS PROGRAM The Lifestyle Business Program is a comprehensive long-term relationship marketing strategy. It is designed to help your business increase sales and gross profit by expanding your customer base and building a long-term relationship with those customers. Relationship marketing was described this way by D.R. Libey, at the Third Annual Conference on Database Marketing: The first objective of customer-focused marketing is to obtain the full lifetime value from every customer ( and then some. The second objective of customer-focused marketing is to increase the lifetime value of every customer and keep increasing it year after year. The third objective of customer-focused marketing is to use incremental profits from the success of the first two objectives to pay for obtaining new customers at an even lower cost of acquisition. The goal is long term, profitable survival. You cannot reach that goal if you are driven only by short-term profits. You cannot reach that goal if you are driven only by quality. You cannot reach that goal if you are driven only by productivity. You cannot reach that goal if you are only driven by technology. The only path to long-term profitable survival...
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...other than traditional grants. Santa Rosa Philharmonic Youth Symphony can raise funds to ensure financial security from alternative sources. The youth will participate in the fundraising. Their contributions will be bringing different things to us to raise monies. We will have bake sales, raffling off different item like iPods, Digital cameras, car washes, carnivals, a $100.00 charity ball, different types of games for $50.00 or more. . We will get the community involved. We are aware funds are available through conventional sources even though some may be difficult to access. These types of funding include intermittent funding from foundational resources. Obtaining this type of resources involves making regular inquiries given that these funds are not widely publicized. Most projects that are small and local are available to health foundations, and religious groups. An additional way that we can generate funds is through establishing communal activity ventures. If the organization offer training for a fee to surrounding communities, and other organizations they will earn extra funds also. Contributors are motivated to give goods, like unused clothes, vehicles, which one can write off as a tax-deductible contribution. However, we can list all the previous donors by writing letters to them requesting assistance for the program. Well-defined declaration of objectives and goals make it easy to search for agencies, foundations, and individuals, which can make available non-traditional...
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...Recommendations and Guidance for VTC Enterprises David Vasquez California State University, Long Beach PPA-525 – Tuesdays Presented to: Dr. Sundstrom December 4, 2012 Final Paper Overview of the nonprofit sector The nonprofit sector is the collective name used to describe institutions and organizations in American society that are neither government nor business. (“What is the Nonprofit”, n.d.) Outside the United States, nonprofits are often called nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or civil society organizations. (Campbell, 1987) However within nonprofit organizations there are other names which emphasize the characteristics that distinguish nonprofits. Essentially they are categorized as: voluntary sector to acknowledge the importance of volunteers and voluntary action, independent sector to distinguish nonprofits from business and government, and social sector to underscore how the activities of nonprofits enhance the social fabric of our country. (Anheier & Seibel, 1990) Nonprofit organizations, unlike businesses do not exist to make money for owners or investors; instead these groups are dedicated to a specific mission. There are currently more than 1.6 million organizations. (McSween, n.d.) About one million of them are public charities that employ over seven percent of the country's work force, close to 10 million paid workers. (“What is the Nonprofit”, n.d.) Careers in nonprofit management Nonprofit institutions play an important role in community life...
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...Niagara University Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies "Building a Bridge to Bulgaria" A US-Bulgarian Cultural Exchange Organization Research Capstone Paper IDS601 Members of the committee: Dr. Chambers, T. Leibowitz, A. Dr. Mayer, S. Research paper presented by: Mariya Cherneva April 29, 2011 Table of Contents I. Executive Summary 3 II. Introduction 5 1.0 Why would someone would like to study abroad? 6 2.0 A Literature review of study abroad participants 11 3.0 USBCE Resource interviews 14 4.0 Specific information on Bulgarian stident trends 17 5.0 Creating a successful non-profit organization 19 6.0 USBCE – Created a specilized Organization 43 7.0 USBCE identifies its major outsidide organization 44 8.0 What role will USBCE play in the Work/Travel program 47 III Conclussion 51 IV Bibliography 53 V Appendix 1 VI Appendix 1 I. Executive Summary Background Having been the direct beneficiary of a few different types of cultural exchange programs I appreciate the value such an organization provides. In my lifetime I have been able to travel to, study and work in more than five different countries. My hope is to be able to use my experiences to create a cultural exchange organization to assist students with international study as well as a broad cultural experience. A program like this will help students to gain a global perspective and cultivate a global network...
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...Sections of This Topic IncludeSuggested Previous ReadingWhat is a Nonprofit?Key RolesThree Major Sections of Personnel in a NonprofitManagement Skills Generally Unique to NonprofitsCurrent Major Challenge: DevolutionRevenue: Fees and FundraisingUnique Nature and Struggles of Traditional Small NonprofitsGeneral ResourcesAdditional Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizations Also See the Library's Blogs Related to Nonprofit OrganizationsIn addition to the articles on this current page, see the following blogs which have posts related to Nonprofit Organizations. Scan down the blog's page to see various posts. Also see the section "Recent Blog Posts" in the sidebar of the blog or click on "next" near the bottom of a post in the blog. Library's Consulting and Organizational Development BlogLibrary's Leadership BlogLibrary's Nonprofit Capacity Building BlogLibrary's Supervision Blog Also seeRelated Library Topics Suggested Previous ReadingNote that the reader might best be served to first read the document Introduction to Organizations to understand the overall general nature of all organizations. As noted in that document, today's leaders are faced with continual change in their organizations. Consequently, today's leaders should have a strong sense of what their organizations are about. This document will accomplish that for nonprofit leaders. An organization is a collection of resources arranged to accomplish an overall goal. The purpose of a nonprofit organization is to meet one...
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...Organization Overview AIDS ATLANTA, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) 3, which was incorporated in Georgia. AID Atlanta Inc. is a small organization by revenue operating in the Non-Profit & Professional Orgs. Industry. AIDS ATLANTA purpose is to provide financial and supportive services to those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and to create awareness and prevention education programs in the community which has yet to overcome the challenges of stigma, discrimination and denial of the epidemic. AID Atlanta, Inc. has been saving and transforming lives since its inception in 1982. The agency was founded as a grass-roots response to the devastating and fatal impact HIV/AIDS was having on the Atlanta community. AID Atlanta quickly began expanding to offer a broader range of services, and has since grown to be the largest and most comprehensive AIDS Service Organization in the Southeast United States (www.aidatlanta.com, 2011). Role of Board of Directors Nonprofit boards generally have the duties of selecting and working with the Executive Director, amending bylaws, approving the annual budget and long-term strategic plans, and ensuring its own succession. There are 24 members on the Board of Directors, with 6 Department Heads Directors of Aid Atlanta. The Executive Director presently is Cathy Woolard. The Executive Director has executive management responsibility for all aspects of Aid Atlanta including operations, fundraising, financial management, marketing, government and...
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...Funding Traditional funding through government agencies and corporations who donate to organizations and agencies is becoming harder and more competitive to attain; more organizations are relying on them when less money is available. The economic conditions are making it hard for more tradition funding methods to bring in enough revenue to match the amount of grants requested. More and more agencies are turning to non-traditional sources to generate the income they need to keep their programs operating. Even those sources are becoming more difficult to find, but with a little work and a lot of creative talent they can be found. The Santa Rosa Philharmonic Youth Symphony (SRPYS) is no different than other organizations that strive to provide a human service to a target population. In this case, the population is the youth of the Santa Rosa and surrounding areas that appreciate music and want to further their musical education. The local schools have lost funding for their music program and this organization wants to help pick up the deficit by offering a program to allow students to continue their education. The funding is all that is necessary since the agency already exists, has a facility, and has staffing which can work with students; the budget to run the additional program is the stalling point to the inception of the program. Since most traditional funding sources are already being tapped heavily for resources, SRPYS has decided they need to find more non-traditional solutions...
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