Talking Stick - July/August 2015 - 14

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Telling a story that leads the audience on a
journey through every twist and turn in the
plot until reaching a final, dramatic moment
can have a powerful effect.

''

Matthew Venaas, research manager, and Sherry Woosley, director of analytics and
research, from Skyfactor. Read their tips for turning your assessment data into a
powerful story about your housing program in the feature on page 50.

According to a new study conducted by Julie Luker, faculty and administrators
are unclear about the realities of cyberbullying within higher education. In this
study, Perceptions of Cyberbullying Within Higher Education, two methods were
employed in order to better understand constituent perceptions of cyberbullying
at the postsecondary level: specifically, a cyberbullying survey and a semistructured interview. Participants from ACUHO-I were among those recruited to
complete the cyberbullying survey portion of this study, and several interesting
findings were uncovered. Luker found that the majority of all participants do
not feel completely prepared to handle incidents of cyberbullying despite the
fact that more than half of survey participants have already had to do so. Survey
participants also lack confidence in institutional response to cyberbullying
behavior, which may stem from the fact that almost half of all represented
institutions have not yet enacted official policy to address cyberbullying. To read
the complete study, go to the association's library at www.acuho-i.org and use the
keyword search 'cyberbullies.'
-Julie Luker
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Few students in the general
population know what it
feels like to be a disabled
veteran just beginning
or returning to higher
education, but veterans
like Michael Thompson
do. He founded Student
Veteran House, Inc.,
which, according to the
website, has the goal of
providing "accessible living
environments on college
campuses that enable
veterans with disabilities to
excel as they pursue higher
education."
Based on experience
and two focus groups, the
architectural company
Hanbury Evans Wright
Vlattas + Company and
Student Veteran House
have paired up to create a
campus environment that
is ideal for veterans with
disabilities, particularly
focusing on the camaraderie
experienced in the military.
The houses will include
private bathrooms so that
disabled veterans can
comfortably shed their
prosthetics or expose
wounds and scars in privacy.

How Do You Handle Cyberbullies?

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Building New
Communities

Thompson and his
design collaborators
will be speaking about
the plans and future for
Student Veteran House
at the Society for College
and University Planning
(SCUP) Mid-Atlantic
Conference, the ACUHO-I
Annual Conference and
Exposition, and the national
SCUP conference. For more
information, visit www.
studentveteranhouse.org.
-Emily Rudduck
http://www.studentveteranhouse.org http://www.acuho-i.org
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