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Pilato, Kelly A.; Law, Madelyn P.; Narushima, Miya; Moore, Shannon A.; Hay, John A. – Educational Policy, 2022
The mental wellness of university students can be critical for their success. In an attempt to minimize stress for students, many universities have implemented a policy for a fall break with limited evidence to support its intended outcomes. This case study offers a critical appraisal of the formation of the fall break policy at one medium sized…
Descriptors: Mental Health, School Policy, Higher Education, Wellness
Amanda N. Nix; Tamara Bertrand Jones; Shouping Hu – Educational Policy, 2023
Florida Senate Bill 1720 drastically changed developmental education, beginning in fall 2014. This paper considers affected faculty members' perceptions and experiences with the passage and implementation of reform, according to focus group data provided by 294 participants at 21 Florida College System institutions between 2014 and 2019. We found…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Hollingshead, Aleksandra; Lowrey, K. Alisa; Howery, Kathy – Educational Policy, 2022
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a scientifically validated framework that has been included in policy like the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 and the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. However, studies have pointed out the variability in definitions and implementation surrounding UDL. In order to clarify this conversation,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Specialists, Policy Analysis, Educational Legislation
Mokher, Christine G.; Jacobson, Louis – Educational Policy, 2021
This article explores challenges in starting, developing, and incorporating partnerships between the secondary and postsecondary education sectors. We use qualitative data from site visits at high schools, district offices, and state colleges across six Florida counties to identify the types of challenges educators faced in various phases of…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, High School Students
Kezar, Adrianna J.; Holcombe, Elizabeth M. – Educational Policy, 2020
With emerging evidence about the efficacy of integrated support programs for college students and increasing attention nationally to creating such programs, it is important to understand implementation barriers that might affect program success. This study is one of the first to examine implementation of integrated programs, with a particular…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Program Implementation, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
Blankenberger, Bob; Phillips, Alan – Educational Policy, 2016
The completion agenda is the dominant theme in higher education policy in the United States today, and one of the primary strategies advocated in the agenda is performance funding in budgeting for public institutions. Illinois is one example of a state that has attempted to implement performance funding as a means of directing the behavior of…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Budgeting
Barnett, Pamela; Gunersel, Adalet Baris – Educational Policy, 2014
In implementing a university-wide programmatic innovation to prepare graduate students to become more effective instructors in their future careers as university educators, a faculty development center encountered various types of resistance, ranging from the structural to the cognitive to the affective. Elaborating upon models of organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Organizational Change, Teacher Education, Graduate Students
Chase, Megan M. – Educational Policy, 2016
Understanding how educational practitioners make sense of and subsequently implement policy has been an increasingly important objective of the K-12 research community. This study extends this research into higher education via an in-depth case study of an urban public 2-year technical college. Drawing on sensemaking theory and critical policy…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Transfer Policy