CENTRALIZED INTRUSIVE ADVISING AND UNDERGRADUATE RETENTION

Undergraduate retention and attainment in Business and Management

Intrusive and non-intrusive watermarking

“Can we watermark without perturbing an image?” We present the salient results of the investigation carried out to find an answer to this question.

A Learning Management System-Based Early Warning System for Academic Advising in Undergraduate Engineering

As demonstrated throughout this volume, colleges, and universities are increasingly fi nding value in aggregating and analyzing once disparate sources of data, such as a student’s admissions records, academic history, and use of campus information technologies—all under the rubric of “learning analytics” (LA) (see also, Campbell et al. 2007 ; Fritz 2011 ; Goldstein and Katz 2005 ). In this chap...

Advising the newest faces of public health: a perspective on the undergraduate student.

In the 20th century, public health education in the United States existed as a professional degree program, with training at the masters (MPH) and doctoral (PhD, DrPH, and ScD) levels. Today, the system is rapidly evolving as undergraduate majors, minors, and concentrations are establishing themselves around the country. This new focus of public health education, rooted in a liberal arts enviro...

Developing Leaders: Implementation of a Peer Advising Program for a Public Health Sciences Undergraduate Program

Peer advising is an integral part of our undergraduate advising system in the Public Health Sciences major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The program was developed in 2009 to address the advising needs of a rapidly growing major that went from 25 to over 530 majors between 2007 and 2014. Each year, 9-12 top performing upper-level students are chosen through an intensive application...