Fostering a sense of belonging for students has long been considered a crucial component of retention and success for colleges and universities. However, there is no universal definition of what "belonging" actually is. In College Belonging: How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navitage Campus Life, Lisa M. Nunn (2021) delves into what it means for college students "to belong." Through student interviews during their first two years of college, Nunn explores how students define and experience belonging; in doing so, creating a new perspective on what belonging is and how students achieve (or are gifted) belonging.
Arkansas novaculite in the Hot Springs-Little Rock area exhibits the texture, in scan electron micrographs, of a thermally metamorphosed rock formed ostensibly from cryptocrystalline chert. The stratigraphic formation, named Arkansas Novaculite, grades from a metamorphic rock in central Arkansas to typical cryptocrystalline chert at Atoka, Oklahoma, 250 air-kin west. The Bigfork chert behaves similarly. It appears desirable to restrict the term "novaeulite" to a petrologic name for a thermally metamorphosed chert which shows polygonal, triple-point texture; Arkansas novaculite is the type occurrence.Quartz crystals 60 #m in diameter yielding relatively very coarse texture are developed in novaculite within 100 m of Mesozoic intrusives, e.g., at Magnet Cove. Coarse texture, crystals 10-20 /zm in diameter, is widespread at Hot Springs and Little Rock quarries. Fine texture (metamorphic) which ranges down to 1 to 2 ~m, occurs in the western part of Trap Mountain, 12 air-km southwest of Hot Springs. Similar texture occurs in the Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, region. Incipient-metamorphic texture appears in the Potato Hills region, Oklahoma, but at Atoka, Arkansas "novaculite" is cryptocrystalline chert.Thermal metamorphism of chert from vulcanism yields novaculite. In Ouachita locales of intense structural deformation coarse-textured novaculite is developed. Whether deformation alone generates adequate heat to produce novaculite is uncertain.Novaculite may be a geologic clue to a hidden intrusion, a thermal ore deposit {e. g., the vanadium in Arkansas), or a source of geothermal energy.
One-hundred-fifteen secondary school science teachers in Missouri were trained in 1969-70 in an NSF-funded, state-wide institute in which eight colleges and universities participated. An inquiry approach to teaching and learning, in contrast to lecturing and reciting, was to be used by the newly trained teachers. Because of this, special attention was given, during the training period, to teacher attitudes and attitude change in relation to students and classroom situations. Evaluation showed that the greatest positive change in teacher attitude came during the early, very intensive part of the year-long program.
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