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Colleges and universities are keenly interested in developing a positive relationship with current students as well as maintaining contact with alumni for a variety of enrollment and financial reasons. Institutions spend a growing amount of time and effort in an attempt to retain their existing student body as tuition and fees are needed to help pay for faculty and staff salaries, maintenance, and other operating expenses. Alumni are looked upon as sources of referrals and financial support. This paper explores whether the attire of faculty influences the satisfaction level of students who are future alumni. In general, the results of this study suggest that both business and non-business students have a higher opinion of their educational experience when faculty members wear profession...
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Beck discusses , which is the culmination of years of experience, and encompasses topics and techniques designed to prepare IPMBA Instructors to successfully conduct the basic standardized IPMBA cycling courses. By merging its proven training programs with stringent instructor selection and education, IPMBA has sought to continue its stated goal of providing the first and finest public safety cyclist training programs in the world.
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We have all been in class with "That Guy." Admit it: odds are you have likely been "That Guy" at some point in your career. There are as many types of "That Guy" as there are people: the guy who shows up to class without the right equipment, inferior ammo that fails to function, inferior equipment that he swears is "just as good," and the guy that knows everything about everything and wants to argue with the instructor.
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Wilhelm Loehe considered a catechetical work to be the most important piece of writing that he left to posterity. This was the House, School and Churc...
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A mother's suggestion has materialized into an impressive martial arts distinction for an Upper Kanawha Valley teenager.
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A mother's suggestion has materialized into an impressive martial arts distinction for an Upper Kanawha Valley teenager.
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This study investigated the relationship between students' motives to communicate (i.e., relational, functional, participatory, excuse making, and sycophantic) with their instructors and perceived instructor credibility, attractiveness, and homophily. 150 undergraduate students (85 men, 64 women, one did not indicate sex) enrolled at a large Mid-Atlantic university completed the Student Motives to Communicate Scale, the Measure of Source Credibility Scale, the revised Measure of Interpersonal Attraction Scale, and the revised Measure of Homophily scale. Analysis indicated that the functional motive was correlated positively with perceived instructor character and caring. Moreover, the relational motive was correlated positively with perceived instructor social and physical attractivenes...
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This case was developed through the use of secondary research material. The case has a difficulty level of five and is appropriate ...