Keys to Success: Utilizing Student-focused Strategies

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Keys to Success Utilizing Student-focused
Strategies
Minard Hall, North Dakota State University

• Carol L. Cwiak
• North Dakota State University

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Keys to Success

• Program
• Ideology
• Educational
• Model

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• A professor can never better distinguish
  himself in his work than by encouraging a clever
  pupil, for the true discoverers are among them,
  as comets amongst the stars.
• Carolus Linnaeus
• (1707-1778 )

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Program Ideology

• Encourage student
• growth in the areas that
• are of interest to the
• student
• Focus on building in
• scholarly skill sets and
• filling gaps
• Build excellence one
• student at a time.

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Emergency Management Educational Model
Functional Application
Curriculum
Internships
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Curriculum

• Interdisciplinary
• Emergency Management Sociology primary
• Anthropology, Communication, Natural Resource
• Management, Criminal Justice, etc.
  secondary
• Mix of traditional and seminar offerings
• Guest lecturers and visiting professors
  utilized and,
• Focus on research writing.

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Functional Application

• Course assignments emphasize utilization of
• critical skill sets
• Focus on real world EM assignments, issues, and
  
• evaluation
• Provide wide variety of hands-on opportunities
• that allow for knowledge application and
  service to
• the community
• Focus on building a scholar.

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Internships

• Program requirement
• Typically three credits approximately 150
  contact
• hours
• Tailored to individual students interests
  goals
• Build relationships for students credibility
  for
• program
• Contribute to and innovate the field
  incrementally
• without being threatening
• Bring education to life.

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Final Thought

•  Coming together is a beginning.
• Keeping together is progress.
• Working together is success.
  
• Henry Ford

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Contact Information
Carol L. Cwiak Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Emergency Management North
Dakota State University P.O. Box 5075 Fargo, ND
58105 [phone] carol.cwiak_at_ndsu.edu www.ndsu
.edu/ndsu/em