Mentors are essential for student success. In these challenging and dynamic times in education and society, having mentors to provide support is of even greater importance. This paper shares information about mentoring initiatives for female undergraduate students pursuing a baccalaureate degree in construction management program at a four-year…

Universities need to capture the current status of graduate employability from both the graduates' and employers' perspectives if they are to effectively respond to industry skill and knowledge requirements. Graduate employability is a concept that is gaining traction in the higher education sector around the world. Therefore, the purpose of this…

One of the latest learning models developed by Bina Nusantara (BINUS) University is Project Based Learning (PBL). The main theoretical basis used in this research is Dewey's theory. This research aims to describe the teamwork of BINUS students who apply the PBL model in learning activities. Does engagement occur in the work team? Does engagement…

The concept of TQM is really needed by educational institutions, considering the needs and user satisfaction are the main goals of services in an educational institution. The synergy of student expectations and campus interests will be achieved if academic services are carried out by prioritizing aspects of quality, adequate facilities, and…

This article analyzes women's only leadership development training to determine how leadership roles are conceptualized and implemented, how women independently and collectively construct new leadership role identities, and how leadership identities are retained post training. Themes of nested validation, accepting the belonging narrative,…

Graduate education is part of the most effective means of developing capacities related to doing research that will improve educational theory and practice in the many different aspects of the educational process. Thus, this study traces the employability and productivity of a Private Higher Education Institution's (PHEI's) Graduate School…

Education research focused on Pacific Islanders over the past 30 years has overwhelmingly concluded that U.S. systems of education are failing these students, but the global movement towards culturally relevant and inclusive education has had an indelible impact on the number and types of support available for Pacific Islander students in the…

With the ever-increasing push towards authentic learning within post-secondary institutions, many approaches are being explored. One such method with a particular focus on real-world applications has been the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition program. At the University of Calgary, the iGEM program sees teams of…

College is the first special education licensure program in the country to require its candidates to participate in a year-long class which teaches grassroots organizing skills within a civic-agency curriculum known as Public Achievement. Interviews and survey data were conducted with alumni of the program and results are reported. Result from…

This paper explores the history of international schools in the Tokyo/Yokohama region and the role they played in helping to modernize Japan in the Western mold. The author argues that these schools and their alumni helped grow two empires: that of the Western powers in Asia and that of Japan itself.

In an ongoing era of decreasing state and federal funding for higher education, this paper uses resource dependency and organizational identity theory to argue that alumni represent a critical resource for higher education institutions, but that the development of their organizational identity as alumni, and therefore their identity as prospective…

The article describes modern development in education in the Russian Federation, tied to the development of professional standards. We will show that introduction of professional standards can not only start from a profession, but from an actively developing social practice. Using the example of alumni socio-educational support of all forms of…

There is a current crisis in computer science teacher certification in US, which primarily centers around a growing confusion in licensure requirements. Some universities have created Computer Educator Licensure (CEL) programs to better address this confusion and to help train the next generation of K-12 computer science educators. The authors of…

Young women benefited from a network of "social cohesion and peer support," a form of social capital, which emerged from participation in a well-known high school robotics program. This factor was part of a larger grounded theory qualitative study using a foundation in career theories that explored the influences of the robotics program…

This paper is intended to share the results of the assessment of the use of the Online Work Community (OWC), developed in the Moodle technology that was used as an instrument to facilitate the educational and operational processes, intended to share problems and proposals for solution among the 470 members of the development teams, made up of…