The purpose of this review is to provide information about a highly respected peer-reviewed journal in my field, Landscape and Urban Planning. To understand Landscape and Urban Planning, I will address a few general questions to provide a background and profile of the publication. Where is the journal from? Co-Editors-in-Chief J.I. Nassauer from the School…
Author: Sara
Academic Duty
We are finishing up the Roles and Responsibilities of Faculty module this week. This course topic has been presented to us in the form of 4 questions. What is academic freedom? What is academic duty? What are the roles and responsibilities of faculty? How can higher education build community and provide quality mentoring? Last week,…
Mission Statement
This blogging exercise is to share mission statements from two institutions of higher learning. The first example comes from my Alma Mater, Mississippi State University (MSU), a land-grant institution located in Northwest Mississippi’s Golden Triangle, in a city called Starkville. I went to MSU for both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees; attending from 2004-2009 for…
And lo, a blog is born!
So in all fairness, I must tell you this is not my first blog. I had a Xanga in high school (back when MySpace was THE thing to do), when I was a student at the Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science (MSMS) from 2002-04. And I also kept a blog during a study abroad…
