scholarly journals The Perceptions and Needs of Volunteers at a University- affiliated Public Garden

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 552-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Haynes ◽  
Cary J. Trexler
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
Group Format ◽  
Public Garden ◽  
Tangible Rewards ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
Volunteer Motives ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Rewards

University-affiliated gardens enhance the teaching, research, and outreach missions of the university. Attracting and retaining volunteers is challenging but important for the success of most public gardens. The objective of this case study was to determine the perceptions and needs of volunteers at a university-affiliated public garden. In a focus group format, participants' responses were analyzed to determine the benefits of volunteering to both the participants and the university. Benefits were categorized into three groups: material, solidarity, and purposive. Material benefits are tangible rewards that are equated with monetary or resource gain. Solidarity benefits are social rewards from being in a group. Purposive benefits are rewards from achieving a goal or mission. This study documents the shift of volunteer motives from deriving purposive to solidarity benefits as the garden grew and expanded. Concomitantly, the goals of the university-affiliated garden shifted from purposive to material benefits. Our results confirm that garden volunteers are like other groups of volunteers in that they expect specific benefits for their participation, and their needs may fluctuate over time. Thus, a public garden may need to adjust reward systems to maximize the positive impact of volunteers. The university would benefit from an efficient support system to help volunteers meet their desire for helping the organization. To retain volunteers the university needs better training programs, a more flexible volunteer work schedule, and more recognition ceremonies. This study has implications for any institution that uses volunteer support to accomplish its mission.

scholarly journals Endowment Strategies for the University of Delaware Botanic Garden through Case Study Analysis

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Stephens ◽  
Aaron Steil ◽  
Melody Gray ◽  
Abby Hird ◽  
Sonya Lepper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Of Delaware ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Public Horticulture ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Public Garden ◽  
The University ◽  
Volunteer Group

The University of Delaware Botanic Garden (UDBG), located in Newark, is in transition, moving from its initial founding as a public garden by dedicated faculty and a volunteer group to an organized and efficient entity with widely recognized achievements and reputation. To make this leap, UDBG is faced with the particular need for an endowment to fund its operations, staff, and collections to continue future success. An endowment will provide a steady source of monetary support to operate and maintain UDBG. This study was conducted to discover the best endowment strategies based on the experience of four other public gardens associated with universities. These interviews were compiled and compared. The resulting recommendations for UDBG are based on the following five areas: organizational structure, planning, current strategies, the endowment, and the donor. The insights into how all five of these areas affect endowments may also be beneficial to other university public horticulture entities seeking to build an endowment.

scholarly journals Open Badges to Encourage Class Representatives’ Reflection and Achievement-Sharing: A Case Study from Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Leadership And Change ◽  
Negotiation Problem

This case study describes how Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) worked in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services division to implement one of the first Open Badge schemes used in the UK higher education sector. Based on student feedback, EUSA developed an effective Open Badge model to recognise and reward students’ work as Class Representatives. The paper describes EUSA’s model of badges, badge criteria and implementation, before focusing on qualitative examples of the positive impact of this pilot project for both individual students and for the Students’ Association. It provides examples of how students reflected thoughtfully about the impact of their work as Class Representatives to develop skills in negotiation, problem solving, diplomacy, leadership, and change management. EUSA’s Open Badge scheme now rewards students for sharing their achievements. In turn, students’ Open Badge blog posts have helped EUSA to gain more meaningful insights into the broad work of Class Representatives and how students benefit when they engage fully with the role.

scholarly journals Pretesting Public Garden Exhibits Enhances Their Educational Value for People with Diverse Abilities

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-722
Author(s):  
Jean M. Larson ◽  
Emily Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
Public Garden ◽  
The University

Formative evaluation (pretesting) can lead to better working exhibits in public gardens. While many botanical gardens and arboreta will attest to the importance of using formative evaluation, it has not been used to develop exhibits for consumers with diverse disabilities. At the Clotilde Irvine Sensory Garden of the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (Chanhassen, Minn.) we are interested in developing exhibits that meet the needs of audiences with disabilities. To that end in 2000, four comprehensive interpretive exhibits were pretested before the final exhibits were installed within the Clotilde Irvine Sensory Garden to determine the exhibits ability to teach concepts to all regardless of disability. The evaluation indicated these exhibits were physically accessible, but needed attention in specific areas to enhance their inclusiveness.

University-Industry Linkage Through Business Incubation

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-244
Author(s):  
Dinis Caetano ◽  
Miguel T. Preto ◽  
Miguel Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Management Board ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
The University

This chapter focuses on the role played by business incubators in developing and facilitating knowledge transfer, networks, and business support to tenant firms through a sustainable ecosystem. The authors conduct an in-depth qualitative case-study of one tech-based business incubator in Portugal—IPN, created in 1991 by the University of Coimbra—to provide insight on how the incubator's direction/management board and a group of incubatees perceive incubation and its impact. Primary data was collected via participant observation/focus group involving the incubators' CEO and six team members. Semi-structured interviews were carried out among the CEOs and top managers from 11 companies supported by IPN whether as (1) incubates, (2) under acceleration, and (3) graduates. Results show a positive impact of incubation on internationalization and growth for incubatees and companies under acceleration. However, there is a need for new post-incubation follow-up mechanisms and a normative context promoting richer interactions with graduates.

Best Practices Adopted by Universities in The Development of Mediation in The Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 203-229
Author(s):  
Pavlína Krausová ◽  
Hana Láníková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Communist Country ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The University

This article provides a comprehensive overview of key practices that may be adopted by the universities in order to advance mediation as a dispute resolution method among young professionals and key stakeholders of dispute resolution. The findings are based on the case study of the Charles University, Faculty of Law, which has been chosen due to its sharp rise in the number and variety of theoretical and practical university offerings related to mediation. It, therefore, represents a sustainable model of a progressive university program. The authors describe and analyse a full range of its university classes, summer schools, workshops, student societies, competitions, and conferences, many of which are self-organized by the students and university alumni themselves. They report how the various mediation activities developed over time, what contributed to their success, or posed a challenge, and offer an insight into the specific curriculums and practical methodologies. While they may be context and location-specific, the authors believe they are transferable and have the potential to serve as valuable inspiration for other developing ADR programs. To put those educational efforts into a broader context, the authors consider the state of the legal development of mediation in the Czech Republic. e Mediation has been introduced into its respective legal system only after the establishment of the democratic government in 1989, due to it being a communist country. Yet it took more than twenty years to adopt a legal framework that would regulate the basic principles of mediation and its exercise. Furthermore, the authors briefly draw attention to some of the challenges mediation is facing in the Czech Republic after the adoption of the Mediation Act in 2012. They consider in more detail how the specific obstacles may be mitigated by the proactive approach of the universities, especially law faculties, which have a direct relationship with the future driving forces of dispute resolution, such as future legislators, judges, and other professionals. The authors express a notion that the university activities are likely to have a positive impact on the (herein referred to as “ADR”) culture in the Czech Republic, especially in the following years, which is supported by the latest programs developed by government institutions and private parties which are emerging continuously, some of which have direct or indirect relationships, and contact with the university environment. Finally, they provide concrete recommendations as a list of best practices, which were gathered from the analysis of the case study of Charles University.

scholarly journals Development of innovations in Sweden HEIs: a case study of Uppsala University

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Svitlana Zymina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
The University

The article emphasizes that in the context of accelerated democratization and European integration, the use of a value model of the management in higher education, based on the university autonomy and their public («third») mission, is urgent for the HEIs of Ukraine. Creating innovations is its integral part. Sweden experience, as a country with a high innovation index, regarding the development of innovation in higher education institutions is analyzed. The country's policy on the organization of research at universities, aimed at strengthening the «strategic» research areas, such as interdisciplinary industrial and social research, is considered. The main initiatives of the country's government, which have helped to strengthen the strategic fields of research activity and stimulate the emergence of new values in the higher education sector, such as entrepreneurship and competitiveness, are given. In the case study a successful example of Uppsala University infrastructure was studied using the HEInnovate method and the following key criteria - governance, potential of HEI/ financing/personnel/initiatives, entrepreneurial education, innovation support, knowledge sharing and collaboration, Internationalization, digital transformation. The main values and cultural guidelines of the institution, its governance at different levels and communication between different stakeholders and university are characterized. The main productive initiatives of the university, aimed at developing the skills and competencies of researchers and students, necessary for the successful implementation of projects, commercialization, and start-ups are considered. A number of factors that have had a positive impact on the innovation potential of Swedish universities as well as on the country's position in global innovation rankings have been identified. It is suggested to use the experience in dealing with innovators and external stakeholders of Uppsala University by Ukrainian research universities for upgrading their infrastructure.

scholarly journals STUDENT MOTIVATION IN A REAL INVESTMENT DECISION- MAKING CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Paola Plaza-Casado ◽  
Sandra Escamilla-Solano ◽  
Carmen Orden-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Direct Application ◽  
Incentive System ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
The University

One of the main concerns of the university is the ability to respond to the training needs of future workers. The disconnection between the theory and the practise causes demotivation because sometimes knowledge learned in the classroom has no direct application at work. The purpose of this study is to evaluate student motivation through investment decision-making real case using gamification techniques and an incentive system. The results showed a positive impact since students improved their learning and appreciated its usefulness. The main conclusion is the necessity to include real examples in the classroom.

scholarly journals Global citizenship cultivation through COIL-PBL model: case study of the Great Debates course

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Greg Tuke ◽  
Sonia Kapur ◽  
Karim Ashour
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The University ◽  
Pbl Model

The current global political, economic, and social challenges urge the need to cultivate global citizenship among students in their learning process. This paper presents the role of Collaboration Online International Learning (COIL) using theProject-Based Learning (PBL) approach in cultivating global citizenship among university students. The paper explains the different implementation challenges of a COIL course on the different levels and core design elements of the COIL-PBL model to overcome such challenges. Empirically, this paper presents a primary case study of the Great Debates course that was implemented in different forms by three partner universities, which are the University of Washington Bothell (UWB), the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) in the USA, and the Future University in Egypt (FUE). The implementation showed a positive impact on cultivating global citizenship among participating students, which isclear from developments in students’ skills in the areas of cross-cultural communication and negotiation, cultural sensitivity and tolerance, teamwork and coordination across virtual global teams, analytical skills, and perception toward other cultures and society. Notably, the COIL-PBL model has started to gain further popularity after the COVID-19pandemic as an alternative for physical mobility, which encourages future research in this area using other implemented courses using the COIL-PBL model.

scholarly journals The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Case Study of a University Teaching Garden

HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 901F-901
Author(s):  
Adrienne Ploss ◽  
B. Rosie Lerner ◽  
Michael N. Dana
Keyword(s):  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Current Level ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
Public Garden

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires public entities to be readily accessible to individuals with disabilities, including public gardens. However, managers of such gardens are not likely to be familiar with the language of ADA or with what steps they must take to be in compliance. This study served to summarize the requirements of ADA as they pertain to a small public garden. In addition, the Purdue Univ. Horticulture Gardens (PUHG) were evaluated to determine the current level of compliance with ADA and to identify areas in need of attention. The result was an action plan, not only useful for PUHG, but one that can be adapted by other public gardens.

Transition and Tertiary Education: A Case Study of Mzuzu University, Malawi

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paxton Andrew Zozie ◽  
Peter Benwell Kayira
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Dropout Rate ◽  
University Education ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
The University

This article reviews the role of guidance and counselling in Malawi in reducing dropout and easing the transition of students to tertiary education, as well as in helping them during their time in tertiary education. It begins by identifying key success factors in guidance and counselling services for learners in both developed and developing countries. The article argues that the provision of viable secondary school careers guidance and changes to the university counselling programme could reduce the dropout rate and create a smoother transition for students during tertiary education with a positive impact on learning progression. The rationale for integrating guidance and counselling between school and tertiary provision is then explored. Drawing on case-study research carried out at Mzuzu University (MZUNI), the article presents findings on the preparation of students at secondary school for university education, the relationship of subjects offered at secondary school to courses pursued at university and the challenges faced by students as they start university and progress through the levels. The article concludes with some recommendations for enabling smoother transitions through the integration of school guidance and counselling in learning institutions.

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