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The journal, published by NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and sponsored by the Hardee Center for Leadership and Ethics in Higher Education, includes resources and information designed to encourage discussion, research, and educational strategies on character development in college.
NOVEMBER 2009
Volume X, No. 7
FROM THE EDITORS
NASPA'S JOURNAL OF COLLEGE AND CHARACTER WILL MOVE TO BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS IN 2010
Jon C. Dalton, Florida State University
Pamela C. Crosby, Florida State University
NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education is pleased to announce its partnership with Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) to publish Journal of College and Character. Bepress is one of the largest and most respected electronic publishers of professional journals. It currently publishes more than 150 professional journals.
JCC will be moving to a new online home on the NASPA journals database January 2010. This transition will allow JCC to take advantage of the many features and services provided by the bepress publishing platform, including advanced search and display options and enhanced content management software. Currently, JCC receives manuscript submissions via the bepress online editorial system at BEPRESS
Read more about JCC's transition at TRANSITION
INVITED ARTICLES
ENGAGING RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY ON CAMPUS: THE ROLE OF INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP
Eboo Patel and Cassie Meyer, Interfaith Youth Core
This article explores the idea of interfaith leadership and the role that it might play to build religious pluralism on college and university campuses. Read the article at INTERFAITH
REFORMING THE LEGAL PROFESSION THROUGH FAITH-BASED SERVICE LEARNING FOR LAW STUDENTS: NOTRE DAME’S “JUST COMMUNITIES” PROJECT
Vincent D. Rougeau, Notre Dame Law School
This article argues for a greater emphasis on service learning in the law school curriculum so that students can acquire a wider range of practical skills essential to lawyers and gain a deeper sense of engagement with issues of justice. At Notre Dame’s London Law Centre, the “Just Communities” project offers a compelling example of how this can be accomplished. Read the article at LAW STUDENTS
PEER REVIEWED
THE UNIFORMITY OF SPIRITUAL CULTURE IN NINE SOUTHERN STUDENT AFFAIRS GRADUATE PREPARATION PROGRAMS
Dennis Wiese, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Tony W. Cawthon, Clemson University
This study examines the culture of spirituality in graduate preparation programs at Southern institutions. Read the article at SPIRITUAL
MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S CONCEPT OF AUTHENTICITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRIBUTION TO STUDENT AFFAIRS THEORY
Glen L. Sherman, William Paterson University
The author demonstrates how the concept of authenticity, as explicated in Heidegger’s early work Being and Time, contributes to student affairs work. Read the article at AUTHENTICITY
PERCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION, ENGINEERING, AND NURSING FACULTY MEMBERS REGARDING THEIR ROLE IN HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR
Sandra Nadelson, Boise State University
Louis Nadelson, Boise State University
Richard Osguthorpe, Boise State University
In conducting this study, authors used qualitative and quantitative research techniques to determine faculty members’ perceptions of (a) their role in teaching professional behavior, (b) the professional behaviors that are most important for students to develop, and (c) the methods used to help education, engineering, and nursing students develop professional behavior. Read the article at PERCEPTIONS
OPINIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
THE COLLEGE PRESIDENCY: AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN J. NELSON
Stephen J. Nelson, Bridgewater State College
In this interview, Stephen Nelson examines reasons for college presidents' successes and failures. Four major criteria are presented as a baseline for fair judgments of presidents and their leadership. Current trends in the presidency and presidential selection are explored and presented in order to increase understanding about how presidents can best “fit” the demands of these important leadership posts. Read the article at PRESIDENCY
ETHICAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
LEADING AND MANAGING FROM THE MIDDLE
Larry D. Roper, Contributing Editor, Oregon State University
JCC editors welcome Larry Roper as contributing editor of the Ethical Issues on Campus section of JCC. In this issue, Roper argues that when charged with responsibility for representing and supporting the growth of all students, higher education leaders must learn to manage by "leading in the middle" and to straddle warring ideals, which is a difficult place to be. Read the article at LEADING
NEW SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP
NEW EFFORTS TO ASSESS CIVIC OUTCOMES
Cheryl Keen, Contributing Editor, Walden University, Bonner Foundation
JCC editors welcome Cheryl Keen as contributing editor of the New Scholars and Scholarship. She will examine the latest scholarship in moral and civic learning as well as offer her own perspectives on these topics. This issue’s column will focus on new scholarly efforts that emerged at the May 2009 Symposium on Assessing Students’ Civic Outcomes hosted by the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Center for Service and Learning and co-sponsored by the National Service Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) – American Democracy Project (ADP). Read the article at CIVIC
SPIRITUALITY ON CAMPUS
Alyssa N. Bryant, Contributing Editor, North Carolina State University
METHODS FOR ASSESSING INNER DEVELOPMENT: SPIRITUALITY AND BEYOND
Tricia A. Seifert, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Kathleen M. Goodman, University of Iowa
Noel Harmon, University of Iowa
Authors provide information on many instruments that can be used to assess the inner lives of students and to engage in conversations that critically examine how student affairs practitioners' and scholars' own beliefs and assumptions influence their work with students. Read the article at SPIRITUALITY
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
INTERNATIONALIZING A CAMPUS: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING ITS PROGRESS
Larry A. Braskamp, Contributing Editor, Central College
JCC editors welcome Larry Braskamp as contributing editor of the International Perspectives section of the JCC. In this column he introduces a framework that includes an incomplete list of indicators for evaluation and assessment that colleagues can use to judge whether or not their campuses are making progress in educating students to be effective citizens in a global society. Read the article at INTERNATIONALIZING
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ON CAMPUS
PUZZLING OVER COMMUNITY SERVICE AND REFLECTION
Scott Seider, Contributing Editor, Boston University
Susan Gillmor, Boston University
Jenna Leavitt, Boston University
Samantha Rabinowicz, Boston University
The types of reflection that appeal to college students are worthy of examination, particularly in light of the existing scholarship on the importance of reflection in deepening the learning that accompanies participation in community service. Read the article at CIVIC
WHAT THEY'RE READING
A NOVEL WINDOW ON THE ACADEMY: COMMENTARY BY LIESA STAMM, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Liesa Stamm , Contributing Editor, Rutgers University
While scholarly studies of culture offer ethnographic descriptions in the analytic categories created by anthropologists or other scholars, novels take us into the lived experience of a culture through the interactions of individuals with their social world and through their thoughts, meanings, and understandings. Read the article at NOVEL
COMMENCEMENT
Reviewed by Kimberly Nehls, Association for the Study of Higher Education
Nehls encourages student affairs scholars and practitioners to join the chorus of discussion about this novel which realistically portrays four college students who are struggling to find their identities in Northampton during part one of the book and in the real world during the second part. Read the article at COMMENCEMENT
STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON MORAL CONFLICTS IN COLLEGE
Amanda Weldy, Contributing Editor, University of Southern California
JOURNEY TOWARD SPIRIT: EXAMINING MOMENTS OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH THROUGH STORY
Caitlin Rebecca Azhderian, Oregon State University
The author shows how she uses her own personal stories as a means to explore her spiritual quest. Read the article at SPIRIT
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JON C. DALTON INSTITUTE ON COLLEGE STUDENT VALUES
February 4-6, 2010
Florida State University
"Two Decades of College Student Character and Values Development: A Retrospect and a Call to Future Action"
Speakers include Alexander Astin, Helen Astin, Arthur Chickering, Arthur Levine, George Kuh and others. More detailed information is available at the Dalton Institute website at DALTON INSTITUTE
EVENTS For information about current and future events, meetings, and projects related to character development in college and moral and civic education in the context of higher education, go to EVENTS
ARCHIVES To see past JCC issues, go to ARCHIVES
PREVIEW To see a preview of the next issue, go to WHAT'S NEW
CONTACT INFORMATION EDITORS
Jon C. Dalton, Co-editor, Florida State University
Pamela C. Crosby, Co-editor, Florida State University
Susan Weir, Associate Editor, University of South Carolina
MAILING ADDRESS:
The Journal of College and Character
jcc@naspa.org
The Hardee Center for Leadership and Ethics in Higher Education
1210G Stone Building
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4452
PHONE 850/644-5867 FAX: 850/644-1258
CONTRIBUTORS
Larry A. Braskamp, International Perspectives Editor, Loyola University Chicago, LBRASKA@luc.edu
Alyssa Bryant, Spirituality on Campus Editor, North Carolina State University, alyssa_bryant@ncsu.edu
Cheryl Keen, New Scholars and Scholarship Editor, Walden University, Cheryl.Keen@waldenu.edu
Larry D. Roper, Oregon State University, Ethical Issues on Campus Editor, larry.roper@oregonstate.edu
Scott Seider, Civic Engagement on Campus Editor, Boston University, seider@bu.edu
Liesa Stamm, What They're Reading Editor, Rutgers University, liesastamm@earthlink.net
Amanda Weldy, Student Reflections Editor, UCLA weldy@usc.edu
SUPPORTING STAFF
Justin Yates, Lynchburg College, Production Assistant
The Journal of College and Character is published by NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and sponsored by the Hardee Center for Leadership and Ethics at Florida State University. The purpose of the journal is to inform professional colleagues, students, and friends about research and educational programs related to moral and civic learning in college.
ISSN 1940-1639
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