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Laurie J. Krom – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Substance use represents a significant global health challenge that many countries lack the capacity to adequately address. While research has identified effective substance use practices and policies, utilization of this knowledge remains weak. Technology transfer is a process designed to accelerate the use of evidence in real-world settings.…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Prevention, International Cooperation, International Organizations
Samantha Bryant Steidle – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For years, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs have warned of social, environmental, and economic risks throughout society. Although researchers have explored the role of baccalaureate-granting institutions in addressing wicked problems of sustainability through multi-stakeholder initiatives, the role of "community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Stakeholders, Cooperation, Sustainability
Khulod S. Wahboubadr – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this study, academic freedom was defined by 17 foreign-born professors: 12 Arab-born and five non-Arab professors from nine different higher education institutions, as the ability to express different ideas, research any topic, and publish the results without fear of intimidation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to examine how…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Arabs, Middle Eastern Studies, Diversity (Faculty)
Mahdi, Ghada S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Though age and gender do not affect students' knowledge of global issues and associated ambiguity, the academic major of undergraduates did. Students' combined perceptions on knowledge of these issues and their associated ambiguities varied among the four academic groups of majors. Unlike teacher education majors and in combined other majors…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Ambiguity (Context), World Affairs, World Problems