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Nimisha Barton; Zitsi Mirakhur – About Campus, 2025
The last decade has seen tremendous growth in the proportion of students of color among undergraduates in the United States, and yet racial inequalities persist when it comes to enrollment at top-tier universities, college completion rates, and the concentration of student loan debt following college graduation. In this article, the authors point…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Equal Education, Racial Factors
Morris-Hayes, Jennifer J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are an essential avenue for high-quality change and work. Maintaining unity among groups with differing opinions is challenging. This mixed-methods study aimed to assess elementary teachers' current perceptions of PLCs to determine their effectiveness by answering four research questions: What are the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Norman, Brian – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Shared governance has become a critical focus for senior leaders concerned with institutional resilience and effectiveness. A blue-ribbon commission of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB, 2014) called on boards to take seriously this area of responsibility. At the same time, shared governance is a notoriously…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, College Faculty, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development
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Irwin, Clare W.; O'Dwyer, Laura; Cook, Kyle DeMeo – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2014
The Early Childhood Educator Survey and the Early Childhood Administrator Survey allow users to collect consistent data on the use of child assessments and learning standards in early childhood learning settings. Each survey includes modules on educator/administrator background information, assessment use, and learning standards implementation.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Surveys, Teacher Characteristics, Administrator Characteristics
Lynch, David M.; And Others – 1990
This descriptive study surveyed deans (N=142), department chairs (N=392), and faculty (N=1173) to examine their perceptions of the relationship between resource adequacy within institutions of higher education and administrators' management styles. The clusters of variables examined were: (1) management style (use of communication and…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness
Renner, K. Edward – 1995
This book speaks to three challenges that face higher education in its quest to redefine the academic community: (1) beliefs about ourselves, our circumstances, our relationships, and our problems; (2) beliefs about personal and organizational change; and (3) beliefs about academic life, about reform and revolution, competition and cooperation,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Beliefs, Change Agents, Change Strategies