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Information Literacy for Student Success

Category Archives: Faculty Behavior

  • Information literacy – Students need it, Faculty want it

    September 24, 2016

    Students come to higher education from a K-12 system that does not fully fund or support their libraries and librarians.  A critical deficiency of skills occurs when funding to school libraries is cut, librarians are working in numerous schools and students do not have easy access to scholarly materials, and certified librarians to guide theirContinue reading

  • Curiosity, Inquiry and Leaders

    September 18, 2016
  • Schutz, Drake and Lesser Question Grade Inflation and the Adjuncts’ Role

    September 8, 2016

    Schutz, Drake & Lessner (2013) explore a question that few others have attempted to answer in previous studies.  The researchers focused their research on academic rigor and grade inflation as they relate to the differences between full-time and adjunct faculty.  A handful of studies have shown that full-time faculty assign lower grades than adjunct facultyContinue reading

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