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Michael J. James – Christian Higher Education, 2023
This essay explores the concept of mentoring communities in the context of Christian higher education. It delves into the importance of forming mentoring communities for faculty, administrators, and students that embrace love, empathy, and a shared commitment to justice, particularly in light of systemic injustices within academia and in the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Christianity, Religious Education, College Faculty
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Kalscheur, Gregory – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition should animate the academic life and educational mission of Catholic colleges and universities. A clearer focus on the catholicity of the tradition -- its aspiration to wholeness -- will help us better understand what it means to engage the tradition in the heart of the institution's academic mission. The…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Colleges, Religious Education, Religious Factors
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Ball, Richard; Medeiros, Norm; Bussberg, Nicholas W.; Piekut, Aneta – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
This article synthesizes ideas that emerged over the course of a 10-week symposium titled "Teaching Reproducible Research: Educational Outcomes" https://www.projecttier.org/fellowships-and-workshops/2021-spring-symposium that took place in the spring of 2021. The speakers included one linguist, three political scientists, seven…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistics Education, Replication (Evaluation), Research Methodology
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Anderson, Bill; Narum, Ashley; Wolf, Jennifer Lynn – Educational Forum, 2019
Dysconscious racism is generally defined as the unquestioned acceptance of culturally dominant norms and privileges, with three categories used to describe college students' reasoning for enduring racial inequity. These range from the historical determinism of slavery to racially exploitive standards inherent in American society. However, few…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Slavery, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Black, Steve – Communications in Information Literacy, 2018
Three theories from the disciplines college student development and educational psychology of particular relevance to teaching of information literacy are summarized: Perry's (1999) scheme of intellectual and moral development, Renninger's (2009) phases of interest development, and Grow's (1991) stages of self-directed learning. Each theory is…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Interests, Student Development, Intellectual Development
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Wiebel, Jon C.; Silva, Vesta T. – College Teaching, 2018
Students in colleges and universities need to be able to learn how to communicate effectively both within the specialized arenas of their chosen disciplines and, increasingly, with a wide variety of public and professional audiences. One way to accomplish this goal is to integrate the development of effective writing and speaking skills into both…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), Rhetoric, Speech
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Kuh, George – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
This article traces the evolution of holistic student development as the centerpiece of the college experience in the 1960s to its current all-too-often overlooked function in postsecondary education, and it explains why students, employers, and the democracy all benefit from educating the whole person. Holistic student development encompasses…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Student Development, College Students, Job Skills
Peterkin, Caitlin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
With goals of fostering an intellectual atmosphere, building relationships, and increasing students' involvement on campus--and, ultimately, their rates of retention--universities around the country, including Elon, Michigan State, and Southern Methodist, are looking to residence life. House systems, residential neighborhoods, and living-learning…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Housing, Academic Persistence, Intellectual Development
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Pittman, Jeffrey S. – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
A greater number of campuses have broadened concepts related to student development connecting traditional student affairs and campus auxiliary services. This connection is increasingly evident in the evolution of sustainability concerns and activities. This chapter explores the role of campus auxiliaries in the promotion of campus environmental…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Personnel Services, Ancillary School Services, Sustainability
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Dungy, Gwendolyn – Journal of College and Character, 2012
Colleges and universities are places where students are immersed in course work and planned activities outside the classroom, where habits based on values and character can be formed. Whether working with students to achieve learning outcomes specifically related to academic courses or helping them work through the consequences of a conduct issue,…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, College Students, Values
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Wong, Gabrielle K. W. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
This paper describes classroom activities to help students understand the publication cycle and the characteristics of major publication channels (textbooks, books, encyclopedias, and periodicals) for first-year physics students. When designing these activities, the author considered the intellectual development characteristics and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
De Stasio, Elizabeth A.; Ansfield, Matthew; Cohen, Paul; Spurgin, Timothy – Liberal Education, 2009
Most American students enter college at a time when they are still forging their identities and seeking a place in the world. Yet many or most of today's students are increasingly dependent on their parents and stay more firmly connected to previous support networks via the "electronic tether" than did their predecessors. In this article, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Support Groups, Intellectual Development, Individualized Instruction
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Henscheid, Jean; O'Rourke, Michael; Williams, Gary – Journal of General Education, 2009
Are the humanities relevant enough to the average undergraduate to be included as a required part of a general education program? The University of Idaho (UI) is currently ten years into the challenge of implementing a cross-disciplinary, university-wide general education program--the UI Core--that has the attention, if not always the support, of…
Descriptors: General Education, Humanities, Humanities Instruction, Higher Education
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Heft, James L. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2009
There are good reasons to be very careful about generalizations about Catholic higher education in the United States. Recall that the 220 or so Catholic colleges and universities are of very different kinds, very different sizes, with different student bodies, and are located in different parts of a country that sometimes have quite different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Differences
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Meszaros, Peggy S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
This chapter presents the need for the journey of self-authorship and an overview of key concepts and terms explored in this volume.
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Self Actualization, Metacognition
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