IFS Report to the Board of Higher Education

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IFS Report to theBoard of Higher Education

• January 4th, 2008
• PSU meeting
• Lee Ayers, IFS President
• Associate Professor,
• Criminology and Criminal Justice,
• Southern Oregon University

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Three Things

• Thank you for inviting faculty
• Terminology
• Shared meaning

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Retreat

• Four subcommittees become six full committees
• Relationship with state Robert Mercer, PSU
• Second governance (OUS and campuses) Joanne
  Sorte, OSU
• Portland Committee Craig Wollner, PSU
• Student Success Lee Ayers, SOU
• Graduate Education Research Kate
  Hunter-Zaworski, OSU
• Regional Campus Committee Jeff Johnson, EOU

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Terminology

• When you say thatI think this!

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The Words Get in the Way

• Execute transitive verb
• 1 to carry out fully put completely into
  effect execute a command
• 2 to do what is provided or required by
  execute a decree
• 3 to put to death especially in compliance with
  a legal sentence
• 4 to make or produce (as a work of art)
  especially by carrying out a design
• 5 to perform what is required to give validity
  to execute a deed
• 6 play execute a piece of music
• intransitive verb 1 to perform properly or
  skillfully the fundamentals of a sport or of a
  particular play never had a team execute
  better Bobby Knight
• synonyms kill, perform
• (see http//www.m-w.com/dictionary/execute )

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Homicides and Use of the Death Penalty by State

• Murder Rate, Death Row Population, Executions.
•     

http//deathpenaltycurriculum.org/teacher/c/states
/maps/policy.htm
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Hanging

• Rope should be
• 3/4 to 1 1/4 in
• diameter.

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Method Hanging
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Firing Squad

• Five shooters are armed with
• .30 caliber rifles loaded with
• single rounds

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Method Firing Squad
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Electrocution

• A jolt of between 500 and 2000 volts which lasts
  for about 30 seconds

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Method Electrocution
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Gas Chamber

• Executer who flicks a
• lever releases crystals
• of sodium cyanide into
• a pale

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Method Lethal Gas
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Lethal Injection

• Two needles are inserted
• into usable
• visible veins, usually
• in the inmates arms

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Method Lethal Injection
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IFS and Quality
Academic Excellence
Student Excellence
Organizational Excellence
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Working Together

• Shared meaning
• Defining quality is not an easy task
• Clear understanding of what it is to
• all stakeholders
• painting a clear picture
• Personalize to achieve the goal

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End Results