Dean's Symposium

“Electronic Health Records Adoption and Use in Wisconsin Skilled Nursing Facilities”

Dr. Anna A. Filipova is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration (DPA) at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She teaches undergraduate public administration courses for the Center for New Learning and graduate public administration courses with health care emphasis in the DPA.

Dr. Filipova's presentation examines the current level of automation for 21 clinical and operational functions, the types of automated clinical decision support and health information exchange and integration capabilities, the types of automated systems to capture and query information relevant to health care quality, as well as the perceived barriers and benefits of electronic health records adoption and use in skilled nursing facilities. The study is the first to use a scientifically-based, comprehensive instrument and establishes a baseline assessment for future research.  Facility and policy implications are discussed for successful electronic health records transition.

Audio Podcast

The following is Dr. Anna Filipova's presentation on electronic health records.

Photos by student multimedia reporter Brad Beck.

Dr. Eric Hiatt, an professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, shared his research with colleagues at the Dean's Symposium in December, 2011.

This is a description of his talk “Climate Change From a Geologic Perspective: A Story Written in Stone” :

The Earth has an immense history that is recorded in sediments and rocks.  This four billion-year record represents all but the first half billion years of Earth history, and includes changes that the Earth has undergone during the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere.  Evolution of life has led to many major changes in the atmosphere and oceans—some catastrophic, and others more subtle.  The biosphere and geosphere continue to be intimately involved in the global climate system.  Both, in combination with changes in insolation, play fundamental roles in controlling the global climate system of Earth.  The public has an awareness of global climate through debates in the media and sweeping generalizations that are regularly made, which are centered on the role humans are playing in the global climate system.  Recent scientific studies, however, have elucidated the relative roles that natural processes relative to human activity play in current climate change.  These findings further dispel the misleading perception that human-influenced climate change is a matter of debate among scientists.  This presentation will provide an introduction to the importance of the geosphere and biosphere in the global climate system, and highlight the critical importance of creating climate-literate students.

Video Podcast

The following is Dr. Hiatt's presentation. (Shot by Wayne Abler of UW Oshkosh Learning Technologies.)

Photos by student multimedia reporter Brad Beck.

From Campus to Prison:
Teaching the Inside-Out Course at Taycheedah Correctional Institution

In spring of 2012, Dr. Carmen Heider will once again hold court behind the barbed wires at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac, Wis. Heider, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, led the first Inside-Out program in the state three years ago.
(Read about that first Inside-Out experience.)

In the Oct. 9, 2011, Dean's Symposium, Heider presented “From Campus to Prison: Teaching the Inside-Out Course at Taycheedah Correctional Institution.”  

Here is a description of her presentation:

What is it like to teach behind prison walls? This talk focuses on the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, which was first taught at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fall 2009 and is scheduled again in Spring 2012. The class brings together 10 “outside” university students and 10 “inside” incarcerated students who learn together as peers in a semester-long course that explores issues related to gender, language, and incarceration. The Inside-Out course is part of a national program that provides outside students with the opportunity to question their assumptions about women in prison, and invites inside students to situate their life experiences within a larger, theoretical framework.  As a whole, the course is designed to dismantle “us versus them” thinking and serve as an impetus for social change.

The following is Dr. Carmen Heider's audio-only presentation. John Koker, dean of the College of Letters and Science, gives the introduction.

Understanding Group Identity and War Attitudes Among Service-Connected Civilians

Dr. James Krueger from the Department of Political Science shares his research at the first Fall 2011 Dean's Symposium at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. His presentation examines attitudinal differences among civilians with and without a familial connection to the U.S. military.  Differential support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are used as evidence of an evolving group identity for these military families which is distinct from purely civilian families.  Dr. Krueger also discusses the implications of this new identity for public opinion on other military as well as explicitly non-military issues.

Here is a copy of his slide presentation in PDF format.

Fall 2011 Dean Symposium: James Krueger "Missing Voices" (pdf)

The following is Dr. Krueger's (audio-only) presentation. 

Photo credit: Shawn McAfee of the University's Learning Technologies.