/news-archive/tag/collections-and-archives/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:58:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/03/27/outstanding-women-deborah-baldwin/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:58:24 +0000 /news/?p=73781 ... Outstanding Women of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock: Deborah Baldwin]]> In honor of Women鈥檚 History Month, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock is featuring stories about the 鈥淥utstanding Women of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock,鈥� faculty, staff, students, and alumni who are serving as leaders and making a difference for the university and their communities. 聽 Dr. Deborah Baldwin, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock associate provost of collections and archives and director of the Center for Arkansas History and Culture, has always had a passion for history.聽 Growing up in Indianapolis, Baldwin learned the value of discipline at a young age. She was a competitive swimmer who practiced three times a day from age 8 until she entered college at Ball State University and earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in history. She also completed teaching certificates in biology and chemistry to make herself more employable after college, but she is thankful she never had to teach either subject since neither surpasses her first love, history. While earning a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, she discovered she had to specialize as well as pass a language. 鈥淚 like to tell people that I entered the study of Mexican history because I thought this through very carefully and it was logical 鈥� when in fact, it wasn鈥檛,鈥� she said. Over the years, she developed a great interest in Mexican history and culture as well as in Latin American, Chicano, and women鈥檚 history. Throughout her career at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, she has traveled to Mexico for research many times, started an exchange program in Guadalajara, and previously served as the state coordinator for the Open Door Student Exchange Program. 鈥淥ne of the most interesting studies I explored was on widowhood along the U.S.-Mexican border,鈥� Baldwin said. 鈥淭his was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The intent of the grant was to understand how widows survived in frontier areas in the late 19th century 鈥� what economic, social, and cultural factors contributed to better quality of life.鈥� After some time at the University of Chicago, Baldwin took a break from college and spent a year working various jobs in New Haven, Connecticut, including teaching at a mental health hospital, at a center for unwed mothers, and in a program for at-risk teenagers. Baldwin joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 1980 as an assistant professor to teach Mexican and Latin American history in the Department of History. She has served the university in a number of positions, including interim provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs, six years as the chair of the Department of History, and nearly 20 years as the dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, where she put her focus on introducing technology in core classes. 鈥淭here were other professors who urged me to consider becoming chair of the department,鈥� she said. 鈥�T. Harri Baker, historian and former administrator at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, helped me steer my way into and through administrative positions. I was the only woman who was chair at the time, and the school newspaper did a front page article. That tells you how unusual and long ago it was.鈥� Throughout her years of administrative service, Baldwin has continued to teach in the public history program and has overseen graduate student work with community organizations. Baldwin has played an important role in preserving history for the state of Arkansas. She heads the Center for Arkansas History and Culture, a unique resource that explores and promotes Arkansas鈥檚 rich history through identifying, collecting, and preserving records that are of enduring value. 鈥淧reserving history is important for many reasons,鈥� Baldwin said. 鈥淣othing in the present or the future happens in a void. We make decisions based on our experiences and relationships in the past. We need to understand the past to make a better future.鈥� The collection houses local gubernatorial papers s, including those of Winthrop P. Rockefeller and Jim Guy Tucker, and it holds information about various groups and organizations from the past, including historic city plans and buildings. It serves as a key location for researchers and educators, housing virtual exhibits on the Elaine Massacre of 1919, Arkansas women鈥檚 suffrage movement, and the Little Rock Central High School Crisis of 1957. 鈥淣ew historical collections and new technology have allowed us to study the past differently and with more precise interpretations,鈥� she said. In her spare time, Baldwin volunteers as an Odyssey of the Mind team coach for Mount St. Mary Academy and has taken 15 teams to an international competition. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics. She has also served on the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History Commission, the Arkansas Humanities Council Board, and the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute board of directors.]]> /news-archive/2017/06/16/open-educational-materials-grants/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:23:17 +0000 /news/?p=67318 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members awarded grants for open educational materials]]> Open educational resources are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license, meaning they can be used freely. Educational materials like textbooks, curriculum, lecture notes, syllabi, assignments, and tests would be open to the public and could be used by students and faculty without cost. 鈥淥ur purpose is to provide and promote the use of pedagogical content that will assist online instructors with acquiring exceptional course materials, creative innovative learning through collaboration, promote student retention, and reduce costs,鈥� said Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator for Ottenheimer Library. Winners of the will adopt open educational resources for an existing online class. Each professor will receive a grant of $750 or $1,500. Some of the professors will use the grant money to create open educational resources that will replace textbooks in their courses and save their students hundreds of dollars. A total of $9,000 in grants were funded by a partnership between the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock offices of Collections and Archives, eLearning, and Scholarly Technology and Resources. “OER is a growing method to allow students to have direct access to course material during the semester, especially in cases where the book is not available or the student lacks funding,鈥� said Dr. David Montague, director of eLearning. 鈥淭his tremendous student retention oriented collaboration between Collections & Archives and eLearning & STaR promotes discussion on appropriate OER content selection and even provides an Ottenheimer librarian to assist in that process.” The winners include:

• 听听听听听Amar Kanekar, assistant professor and graduate coordinator for the Department of Health Education and Human Performance
• 听听听听听Euchay Ngozi Horsman, assistant professor of rehabilitation counseling
• 听听听听听Bennie Prince, advanced assistant professor in Department of Health, Human Performance, and Sport Management
• 听听听听听LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, associate professor of social work
• 听听听听听Daryl Tate, assistant professor of instructional technology
• 听听听听听James Vander Putten, professor of higher education
• 听听听听听Kamran Iqbal, professor of systems engineering
• 听听听听听Jeff Carmack, assistant professor of nursing
• 听听听听听Neveen Shafeek, assistant professor of sociology
• 听听听听听Andrew Deiser, associate professor of Spanish

Grant winners will also participate in campus presentations, panels, and Open Education Week in spring 2018 to discuss how they have implemented open educational resources into their courses. ]]>