Upper Midwest Honors Conference 2019

FRIDAY a = 4:30-4:55 b = 5:05-5:30

Session 5

Oakwood

5a+b

Not Your Stereotypical Presentation Jacqueline Laddusaw + Ella Padden South Dakota State University

This presentation presents findings done from a survey of Honors students from South Dakota State about what being an Honors student is like. Participants will be invited to openly discuss survey findings and different approaches to Honors student issues, such as learning to fail, coping with stress, and dismantling stereotypes. This interactive experience encourages the audience to analyze their personal motivations in creating an ethical leadership style. During this presentation, participants will learn about the leadership styles of Mahatma Ghandi and Mother Theresa, while examining how service and intrinsic value create an individualized leadership style that produces large-scale unification. We investigate the spread and control, using isolation and/or quarantine, of an SIR (Susceptible-Infected- Recovered) epidemic in a population with various social mixing frameworks. This presentation will review a less-than-ideal director’s record of finding dollars, outline some fundraising initia- tives during the Great Recession, identify allies, and relate how occasionally honors directors may receive a golden surprise. Suggestions will also be made that may be useful in the search for desired but illusive honors dollars. A simple goal of useful data to create a snapshot of the University Honors Program, support programmatic deci- sion-making, and track progress toward goals, led to a 6-year journey fraught with failures, setbacks, and, finally, enlightenment. The journey to track and informing decisions regarding holistic admissions and its future is shared. This presentation will cover my journey to get a rape prevention program implemented in middle schools and high schools across South Dakota. My goal is to lower the rates of sexual assault in the state by making potentially life-saving knowledge available to youth. I plan to give an overview of bilingual language development and the problems that English language learners may encounter in the classroom. I will address the issue by introducing five strategies that can be used by educators to support their students’ learning. I will present with PowerPoint visuals. A trio of faculty from Bemidji State University explores the different ways in which they have modeled their own fail- ures for students in hopes of helping students understand how failure is a cornerstone of academic inquiry.

Northwoods

5a

Creating a Following Through Failure: Examining the Leadership Styles of Mahatma Ghandi and Mother Theresa Els Reuvekamp + Payton Pierce South Dakota State University

5b

Impact of Social Networks on the Spread of Disease Alexis VanderWilt Dakota State University Not Finding (and Finding) Private Honors Support Bill Knox Western Illinois University

Willow // Walnut

5a

5b

Finding a Way Forward: Data Failures Pam Golden + William O’Brien + et al. University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

White Pine

5a

Learning and Communicating the Importance of Sexual Assault Prevention and Victim Support Leah Hendrickson South Dakota State University Bilingual Language: Strategies to Help Bilingual Learners Succeed Kylee Beyea University of Nebraska - Omaha

5b

Birch

5a+b

Modeling Failure

Season Ellison + Tracy Caravella + Patrick Leeport Bemidji State University

UW-STOUT // 15