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Direct linkCespedes, Kim-Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
African American university students experience lower levels of retention on college campuses (Tinto, 2012). Academic support is important during the first year of college to increase the likelihood of future success. Therefore, it is crucial that African American university students, who sometimes find themselves isolated in a predominantly White…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Graduation Rate, School Holding Power
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Download full textAmanda Wittman; Amber Haywood – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
For more than a decade, critical service-learning and community-engagement authors and scholar-activists have been pushing for a more race aware, critically informed view of the work of community-based learning. These calls encourage, support and validate the hard work of individuals across campuses who teach and practice in ways that support…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Blacks, Indigenous Populations
Christensen, Mary; Gamble, Jenifer; Morrow, Deana F. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2023
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon social work programs have been profound and institutions have struggled to identify appropriate policies and interventions to address students' educational, health, and safety needs. This manuscript reports the results of a survey administered to BSW and MSW students at three different timepoints during the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, College Students, COVID-19
Levine, Felice J.; Nasir, Na'ilah Suad; Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely; Rosich, Katherine J.; Bang, Megan; Bell, Nathan E.; Holsapple, Matthew A. – American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2021
This joint report from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Spencer Foundation explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career scholars and doctoral students in education research. The report presents findings and recommendations based on a focus group study held in May and June of 2020. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Doctoral Students, Educational Research
Scherr, Rachel E.; Plisch, Monica; Goertzen, Renee Michelle – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Understanding the mechanisms of increasing the number of physics teachers educated per year at institutions with thriving physics teacher preparation programs may inspire and support other institutions in building thriving programs of their own. The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC), led by the American Physical Society (APS) and the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Sustainability
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
McCarthy, Dianne; Rands, Marc – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Learned societies play a number of roles in countries around the world, including national representation of the research community; recognising and rewarding research achievement; and as funding agents for fellowships, research grants or research institutes. They have a networking role both within national research communities and in linking with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Organizations, Research and Development, Institutional Role
Preiser, Rika; Struthers, Patricia; Mohamed, Suraya; Cameron, Neil; Lawrence, Estelle – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about a particular health promoting schools (HPS) program in a resource poor setting. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the importance of the role that external…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Institutional Role, Higher Education, Capacity Building
Zarate-Hoyos, German A.; Larios-Meoño, Fernando – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of universities and other institutions in successful entrepreneurship. Insights are obtained following a literature review approach. Case studies from the United States (New York startup), Spain (Mondragon), and Germany provide strong evidence that universities are very instrumental in the creation,…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Literature Reviews
Mahsood Shah; Chenicheri Sid Nair – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The higher education sector in many countries is going through unprecedented changes. The changes are as a direct result of external and internal operating environments which are having a significant impact on universities. Externally, changing government policy; ongoing student growth and stakeholder demand for quality; and international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders
Huisman, Jeroen; de Boer, Harry; Botas, Paulo Charles Pimentel – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
A Delphi study has been carried out, soliciting views from higher education experts on likely and desirable developments in English higher education until 2025. The paper reports the most salient findings of the Delphi questionnaire and presents two scenarios that focus largely on the institutional fabric of the system. The first scenario follows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Futures (of Society)
Maguire, Carmel – Australian Library Journal, 2011
The necessity of library and information research is pointed up by referring to some of important categories of research now in progress. Reasons are advanced for the necessity such research in Australia and ways suggested in which students wishing to make a career research and practitioners anxious for research opportunities may be accommodated.…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Library Research, Professional Associations, Foreign Countries
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2012
An effective innovation system requires productive interactions between all its parts. Within Australia there is a view that business-university interactions are suboptimal. Government has set a target for doubling the interactions between business and publicly funded researchers by 2020; and the Group of Eight has a strategic priority to build…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Best Practices, School Business Relationship
Laux, Judy – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
Continuing this series on the theory of financial management, the current article investigates capital structure, offering insight into the roles of stockholder wealth maximization, the risk-return tradeoff, and agency conflicts. Much literature addresses this topic, and some of the most recent literature challenges certain theoretical…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Financial Support, Investment, Risk
Croche, Sarah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
The project of the Bologna process to create a "European Higher Education Area" (EHEA) has established the necessary conditions for the emergence of a new sociopolitical space of higher education in Europe. This space has become a cooperation/competition area that changes the European and national balance of power: the relations the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Game Theory, Competition, Foreign Countries
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