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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
Direct linkChristensen, 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
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)
Green, Preston C., III. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Since the separate-but-equal era, students attending schools with high concentrations of Black students have attempted to improve the quality of their educations through school finance litigation. Because of the negative effects of racial isolation, Black students might consider mounting school finance litigation to force states to explicitly…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Court Litigation, African American Students
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
Lipowski, Katrin; Jorde, Doris; Prenzel, Manfred; Seidel, Tina – Professional Development in Education, 2011
International comparisons in science (and mathematics) education show the relevance of teaching quality for learning outcomes. Teacher professional development (TPD) is hence considered particularly relevant for improving teaching and learning in science. The study at hand is part of a European network initiative named Mind the Gap that explores…
Descriptors: Expertise, Qualitative Research, Teacher Effectiveness, Interviews
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
Tuckett, Alan – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
Looking back fifty years is a salutary experience. There is a sense that everything changes, and everything stays the same. Whilst people now have a global non-government organisation to support national bodies in the field of adult learning, most of the national members have a fragile financial base, and the International Council for Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Professional Associations, International Education
