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Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas; Mimi Benjamin; Jody E. Jessup-Anger – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience. Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in "Living-Learning Communities That Work," as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, Higher Education, Educational Benefits, Undergraduate Students
Hamidullah, Madinah F., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Public affairs and nonprofit program administrators and directors interested in (or tasked with) implementing undergraduate programs require a resource where they can find information for recruiting and retaining the next wave of public and nonprofit workers. While similar to graduate public affairs programs, undergraduate programs may differ in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Affairs Education, Personnel Selection, Outcomes of Education
Wang, Elaine Lin; Gates, Susan M.; Herman, Rebecca; Mean, Monica; Perera, Rachel; Tsai, Tiffany; Whipkey, Katie; Andrew, Megan – RAND Corporation, 2018
School principals are charged with complex responsibilities that can include developing a school vision and culture, supporting teacher effectiveness, managing challenges and crises, communicating with the greater community, and more. However, recent research and surveys of school administrators indicate that principal preparation programs do not…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Augustine, Catherine H.; Thompson, Lindsey E. – RAND Corporation, 2017
During the school year leading up to summer 2015, summer leaders in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Rochester made concerted efforts to integrate their summer learning programs into the core priorities and operations of the larger school district as a strategy to increase sustainability. This report examines these efforts and their impacts. The…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Achievement Gains
Council on Foundations, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
Major policy considerations and the management of corporate philanthropy, along with new directions and future prospects of corporate philanthropy, are addressed in 40 articles written by chief executive officers, lawyers, economists, and other leading analysts. In addition, a list of resource materials, a glossary, and a list of organizations…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Business Responsibility, Grantsmanship, Higher Education
Neill, Shirley Boes – 1978
This report provides an overview of the competency-based education movement, discusses school administrators' concerns and attitudes concerning the competency movement, describes the experience of various school districts and states with minimum competency requirements, and presents practical guidelines for implementing minimum competency…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Bachner, David J.; Malone, Laurence J.; Snider, Mary C. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2001
This volume argues that international/intercultural experiences are powerful vehicles for first-year college students to learn the perspectives and skills necessary to function interdependently in a rapidly changing, increasingly complicated world. The authors develop this thesis through an in-depth case study of efforts to provide such learning…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Skill Development, Case Studies, Multicultural Education