Australian university proposes academic program changes

Program Assessment Plan American University Academic Program : CAS : Language & Area Studies - BA Academic Program

Program Mission: Students in WLC degree programs acquire functional language abilities, as well as a deeper understanding of the complexities of cultural difference. WLC's interdisciplinary focus aims at integrating the study of language and culture with the analysis of social, historical, political and artistic phenomena. The learning outcomes reflect the fact that as a result of majoring in t...

CMS proposes changes in H&P rule.

Carnegie Mellon University proposes to develop a new paradigm for

Modern File Systems provide scalable performance for large file data management. However, in case of metadata management the usual approach is to have single or few points of metadata service (MDS). In the current world, file systems are challenged by unique needs such as managing exponentially growing files, using filesystem as a key-value store, checkpointing that are highly metadata intensiv...

Program Assessment Plan American University Academic Program: CAS: Foreign Language and Communication Media - BA Academic Program: CAS: Foreign Language and Communication Media - BA

Oral Proficiency Interview: Based on the guidelines established by the American Council of Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The interview ill be conducted by an outside examiner who has not had the student in class. Strengths and weaknesses in student performance are discussed at subsequent LFS Faculty Council Meetings and used for program review and revision purposes. 80% of students ach...

Academic and personal problems among Australian university students who drink at hazardous levels: web-based survey.

ISSUE ADDRESSED Australian university students consume large amounts of alcohol. There is little published information about personal and academic problems associated with this behaviour. We sought to estimate the prevalence, and identify variables associated with, alcohol-related problems among undergraduate hazardous drinkers. METHODS The control group members (942 undergraduates, 53.3% mal...