The social, cultural, and technological aspects of the environment significantly affect the generation Z student's behaviour. Expectations regarding teachers' work are rising and students' commitment to learning is declining. The aim of the article is to present challenges posed before the didactic process, based on the research results regarding…

Thorndike's (1969) "three P" model of faculty grading orientations (FGOs) serves as a theoretical basis for examining faculty's grading behavior in this study. Using data from a 2014 faculty survey I analyzed the responses of 1,742 faculty at 18 four-year, primarily teaching institutions in the U.S. to examine the relationship between…

Legislation such as the Equality Act 2010 has ensured that considerable progress has been made in tackling discrimination in relation to the 8 protected characteristics that are defined in law. UK HEIs are well-versed in monitoring the diversity of their workforce and ensuring that recruitment is compliant with the legislation. However as HEIs…

While the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant negative impact on the world economy, international research collaborations were disrupted by problems like hiring freezes, stopped lab and fieldwork, delayed research infrastructure, health effects, and restricted travel. This study aims to identify the most critical indicators with the highest…

The range of challenges for educators in the graduate school setting includes students' differences associated with age, language barriers, learning styles, disability, and culture. The literature also demonstrates student populations in higher education differ in academic ability, gender, socioeconomic factors, religion, and life experiences.…

This research examines the postgraduate theses on the concept of information literacy from various perspectives. In this study, which was conducted within the framework of a qualitative research approach, document analysis was used for data collection. Within the scope of the study, "information literacy" was written as a keyword in the…

I presented the 2019 Hans O. Mauksch address at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York City on August 13, 2019. In this address, I explore how sociology faculty perceive their physical bodies in relationship to teaching. After reviewing the literature, I surveyed a national sample of sociology faculty from diverse…

This paper explores academics' interaction in an online forum, situated on the intranet of a South African university, where perceptions of racism within a larger discourse about transformation are shared and debated. The communicative model of democratic discourse directs the interpretation of an emancipatory discursive interaction, following a…

The slow adoption of e-learning in Higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been attributed to many Information Technology (IT) success factors or factors related to the management of IT. While many researchers were able to identify legitimate factors that have an impact on the adoption of e-learning, the impact…

Suicide and suicidal behavior among college students represents a significant public health concern for which various preventative interventions have been developed (Arria et al., 2009; Drum, Brownson, Denmark, & Smith, 2009; Westefeld et al., 2006). This study examined suicide intervention self-efficacy and the relationship with knowledge…

Our study explores relationships between postsecondary institutional type, according to the Carnegie classification of institutions, and faculty salaries based on race and gender. Critical Race Theories underpin our questions, including Critical Race Feminism and Quantitative Critical Race Theory. We ran multilevel statistical anaylses (three…

The purpose of research is to explore the attitudes of university teachers towards the use of mobile technologies and to explore their perception of the ethical aspects related to the integration of new technologies. There was applied a questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions. The results of this research highlight university…

The need for neighbourness and Intercultural competences in Higher Education Institutions is ascending. This is because in recent times, there has been an increase in multicultural classrooms driven by globalization and the growth in global Internet connectivity. Globalization has enabled increased human mobility across physical national and…

This study aims to examine the postgraduate theses in the field of verbal communication skills, which have an important place in the individual's cognitively healthy, effective, and positive communication. In line with this purpose of the research, 24 full-text postgraduate theses in the National Thesis Database of the Council of Higher Education…

The purpose of this study was to examine the implicit attitudes of college-level instructors toward Latino-accented English and the effects of gender, teaching experience, home language, race/ethnicity, and rank on those attitudes. The auditory Implicit Association Test (IAT) was used to measure the implicit accent preferences. Participants (N =…