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Harris, Nathan F. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2022
Higher education scholars often investigate the policy mechanisms of external accountability, but rarely explore institutional mechanisms of internal accountability. This chapter, which reports select findings from an in-depth case study of institutional budgeting at an American public research university, examines an underexplored mechanism of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Research Universities, Public Colleges, Budgeting
Mustafa Kayyali – Online Submission, 2023
In response to the shifting educational landscape and the growing emphasis on responsibility and quality, quality assurance systems in higher education have experienced significant modification throughout time. These systems are essential for assuring the delivery of high-quality educational programmes and preserving the standing and reputation of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Educational Change
Deona Cureton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The effectiveness of the student conduct approaches of the mixed method model, a mixture of restorative justice and traditional sanctioning, and traditional sanctioning, known as the "model code," in student learning at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has been largely unexamined in existing literature. This…
Descriptors: College Students, Black Colleges, Student Behavior, Models
Egon J. Heidendal – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Performance funding has been a popular form of funding colleges and universities for several decades. Often the purpose is to make universities more efficient (Miao, 2012). Missouri has had two separate models of performance funding in play, a decade apart. In this research both performance funding models are examined, including a 10- year period…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Cheryl E. Clark; Melissa Emrey-Arras; Robert F. Dacey – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
Over the last 3 decades, the Direct Loan program has grown in size and complexity, with over $1.3 trillion in outstanding loans as of September 2023. This program provides financial assistance to help students and their parents pay for postsecondary education. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review issues related to…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Risk, Costs, Guidance
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Arellano, Lucy, Jr.; Cuellar, Marcela G.; Gonzalez, Amber M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2022
This chapter invites higher education to reimagine accountability within a backdrop of budgeting and financing as it relates to Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). The authors call for more transparency in their pursuit of Latinx-specific funding and the implementation of race-evasive spending. Examples of how institutions, students, and funders…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
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Ira Geraldina; Julia Safitri; Paulina Pannen; Eka Julianti – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
This paper proposes a governance model framework for online learning marketplaces in Indonesia. This research uses a case study approach to explore a model that is adequate and suitable to be applied in the context of the Indonesia Cyber Education Institute, which was initiated by Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia. The proposed model was prepared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Alane Soares Lockwood – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Closing equity gaps in student outcomes has been a key part of the national agenda in postsecondary education the last two decades as goals to increase the number of college graduates coincides with an increasing number, and future majority, of students from historically marginalized communities. Impactful support programs for students from…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Disadvantaged
Wilson, Wesley K. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Statement of Purpose and Method of Study: Conley's college readiness model includes four key indicators: cognitive skills, content knowledge, academic behaviors, and transition knowledge and skills. The study determined how State Educational Agencies (SEAs) outside Mississippi with an average or above-average post-secondary retention rate measure…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Models, College Readiness
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Andrew Boocock – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
In this article the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector is interrogated, with a focus on the Gig Academy. A literature review of the casualisation of academics in the sector is undertaken and critiqued through the consultative unitarist values and behaviours of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2024
This biennial publication frames the most pressing challenges currently facing colleges and universities--those that demand the board's strategic oversight, vision, and accountability to advance excellence in governance and outcomes for students. The current competitive economic environment and polarized political climate present unique challenges…
Descriptors: Governance, Governing Boards, Student Experience, Political Attitudes
Shah, Amanda A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education institutions face heightened accountability for student success. As such, higher education relies heavily on big data to predict student outcomes. This process is problematic because predictive models are developed on historical data, are deficit based, and are focused on student factors, neglecting institutional factors. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Outcomes of Education
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Crisp, Beth R. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
Utilising Bacchi's framework 'What's the problem represented to be?' the literature on managing academic workloads was analysed to explore why workload allocation models are deemed essential in the contemporary university and the assumptions which underpin workload allocations. Whether due to the need for efficient use of scarce resources or…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Faculty Workload, Models, Universities
Lilia Silverio-Minaya – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of performance management systems (PMS) by examining adoption, stringency, and impact of performance-based funding (PBF) in public institutions of higher education within the United States. The public sector has been under increasing pressure to be more accountable to stakeholders--that is,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Finance
Misti D. Gossett-Thrower – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study aimed to understand the lived experience of marginalized young men who transformed from low academic achievement to academic success in obtaining post-secondary education. Boys have a long history of underperformance in secondary and post-secondary institutions, especially when they face additional barriers such as first…
Descriptors: Males, Low Achievement, Achievement Gains, Success
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