This annotated bibliography was prepared for the Salmon Anchor Habitat Work Group. This group was formed by the Oregon Department of Forestry to review and evaluate the Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy as directed by the 2003 Oregon Legislature. The Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy is a component of management plans developed...
The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP) has articulated a set of overarching Guiding Principles to frame the creation of a new national ocean policy. When taken collectively, these principles provide a careful, circumspect, and ambitious context from which to develop policies that will promote vibrant coastal communities, healthy and...
The INR worked with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency to propose an integrated study design for collecting data on Native Fish, Indexes of Biotic Integrity and Water Quality, and Riparian Area Condition and Function. Estimated costs...
The Oregon Plan is a state-led strategy for restoring and conserving native salmonids and the watersheds within which they spend all or parts of their lives. It evolved from work that began in the 1980s on watershed health and salmon conservation and was propelled into high gear by proposed and...
The popularity of Oregon Scenic Waterways continues to increase, indicating that
the public values these waterways more than ever. Oregon s exceptional endowment of
undeveloped rivers and lakes contributes in many important ways to the high quality of
life that residents and tourists enjoy, and is a key reason why...
A number of different systems have been used to estimate boater use over the 1990-2001 period, making it difficult to trace the source of discrepancies in the final estimates. For example, the boater passes have changed over the years.
From 1990-92, boaters would simply check off the river segments they...
A multidisciplinary team of scientists (Appendix 1) examined 10 of the 16 environmental benchmarks that are tracked by the Oregon Progress Board. The intent of the environmental benchmarks is to provide a fair assessment of the status and trends of Oregon's environmental health. The scientists were asked to clarify benchmark...
Contents: Health Impediments to Academic Performance, Students' Personal Challenges During the First Year, What Do Students Say About Study Abroad?, Speaking: Fundamental for College Graduates?, Did You Know?, Assessment Highlights from Student Affairs Departments
Contents: What Do Incoming OSU First Year Students Tell Us?, Did You Know?, Total Immersion--Enhancing the OSU Student Experience, For Further Reading, Using Assessment Data in Student Life, OSU Perspective: What Is It?, Assessment Highlights from Student Affairs Departments
Contents: Student Leaders of Positive Innovation make Recommendations to Provost's Council, Student Affairs Council Wants You!, Gap Measurement Analysis: A Useful Model for Service Quality Assessment, Assessment Expert to Consult at OSU, MU Looks Good!
Contents: Rec Sports-An Excellent Place to Workout and Play! Students Rate MU as One of the Best! How Do Students Rate OSU Student Health Services Qualitiy? Use of External Resources for Conducting Assessment; What Do Students Who Use the OSU Counseling and Psychological Services Tell Us? GPA's of Students in...
Contents: Use of a Large Scale Survey for Benchmarking Library Service Quality, "Matching Service" to Help Students Pick Roomies, OSU Odyssey--What Do Students Think?, First Year Students Tell Us about Their First Year at OSU.
Contents: Student Affairs Use of Large Scale Surveys, OSU Symposium Slated for Fall, 2004, Entering OSU First Year Students, First Year Student Experiences, Faculty and Students Respond to Surveys of Student Engagement, Student Affairs Assessment Team Invited to NC State Assessment Symposium
Contents: OSU Student Learning and Assessment Symposium A Success, Key OSU Results on the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement, 20 Tips for Survey Design, What is the Bologna Process?, For Further Reading, Student Affairs Assessment Council Wants You!, Faculty and Students Invited to Respond to Surveys on Student Engagement...
Contents: OSU Students of Color Results on the National Survey of Student Engagement, Project DEEP: Documenting Effective Educational Practices, First Year Students' Opinions on Social and Political Issues, For Further Reading, Student Affairs Assessment Council Updates.
Contents: Greater Expectations, University Assessment Council Launched, Financial Aid - Working to Help Students Succeed, So Many Outcomes So Little Time (How to Focus Your Assessment), For Further Reading.
Contents: Student Success: Creating conditions that Matter, What OSU First Year Students Say About Their First Few Months of Residential Experience, Student Borrowing and Debt Burden, and Thoughts on First Year Retention.
This handbook was developed in order to help departments in Student Affairs continue to improve their services and programs through the implementation of intentional, meaningful, and sustainable assessment programs.
Reports the work of the 2004/2005 Oregon State University Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Communication. Report: Determines the current practices that impede an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication, citing data where necessary to substantiate the findings;
2. Determines actions that OSU faculty members, as authors, readers, reviewers,...
Overview of the work of the Faculty Senate Scholarly Communication Task Force regarding inaccessibility and lack of sustainability of current publication model. Report includes three tables listing journals in which HDFS faculty have published in recent years, publisher, cost, impact factors and whether the journals are published by scholarly societies...
Includes general information about journal costs and costs of commercial versus society publications. Spreadsheet represents the journals in which faculty in the Chemistry Department most often publish and includes journal title, cost, impact factor, publisher, and information about whether the journal is published by a scholarly society or a for-profit...
Analyzes subscription costs and impact factors for journals in which COAS faculty most frequently published from 1994-2003. Includes a spreadsheet with journal title, subscription cost, impact factor, publisher, information about whether the journal is published by a non-profit or commercial publisher, and cost per page.
The summary data reports academic standing of undergraduate students at the end of each term, Fall 2002 (200301) through Winter 2006 (200602) showing academic reinstatements as of the beginning of the term, arranged by college.
Contents: National Sruvey of Student Engagement, Weatherford Hall: The Living and Learning Environment; International Assessment and Retention Conference; Faculty Survey of Student Engagement--OSU Results
The Lower Nehalem Watershed Council utilized information from several sources to identify culverts in the watershed that are most likely to block migration of Coho. Our approach builds upon the GIS data layers provided by Portland State as part of their assessment of the watershed. Additional data layers were obtained...
Lab materials from the course GEO 465/565, Geographic Information Systems and Science. This intermediate level course covers fundamental concepts underlying computerized geographic information systems (GISs). It combines an overview of the general principles of GIS with a theoretical treatment of the nature and analytical use of spatial information. Although, the...
Laboratory exercises from GEO 580, Advanced Applications of GIS in the Geosciences. This course takes graduate students beyond the development of geographic mapping technology that simply answers the question, "Where is it?" to integrated systems and the foundational geographic information science that help us answer the question, "Why is it?"...
The 2007 Oregon State University Diversity Action Plan is designed to provide a strategic direction for all of the university's diversity-related efforts.
My interview with Melvin young takes places in the sun porch of the senior center where he tends to eat the majority of his meals. Melvin has hearing aids in both his ears but surprisingly it seems as though he hears better than I do. Melvin is a Korean War...