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Lucchi, Addison Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many higher education faculty members are not trained to teach during their graduate study; thus, faculty development programs (FDPs) can provide systematic opportunity for teaching training. While FDPs are prevalent in higher education today, many such programs focus on practical or pedagogical skill development while neglecting to provide…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teaching Skills, Skill Development
Sean M. Schofield – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous influence on higher education in America. While college presidents have led through multiple crises in the past several decades, this challenge is unique for both the depth of its influence (e.g., revolutionizing course and service delivery methods, financial upheaval and institutional closures, political…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Reflection, Emergency Programs, Leadership Styles
Pesavento, Theresa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation focuses on support for faculty teacher professional learning at a research university. This study brings new perspectives and direct data reporting to the field of higher education faculty professionalism. My conceptual perspective offers approaches to developing robust faculty teacher professional learning structures that are…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Higher Education, College Faculty, Communities of Practice
Suby-Long, Sallie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Based on the theory of transformational learning, the purpose of this study was to conduct survey research with women graduates of two community-based leadership development programs to determine what characteristics describe transformational learning among women participants and to identify what learning activities and experiences may foster…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Females, Transformative Learning, Graduate Surveys
Boettcher, Michelle Lea – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the Wakonse Conference on Teaching and Learning through an organizational development lens. It explores why the conference was created and why it has continued for 24 years. Using this phenomenological case study provides insight into both the organizational elements involved in this conference, but also how the roles of…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Organizations (Groups), Higher Education, Administrative Organization
Kiessling, Marcia Kennard – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This quantitative research study measured self-reported spirituality of student affairs professionals, practices of student affairs professionals in regard to integration of spirituality into their work, and predictors of holistic, spiritually-infused practice of student affairs professionals. The independent variables were demographic and work…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Religious Factors, Student Personnel Workers, Measurement Techniques
Pech, Sandra L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This 5-month qualitative case study investigated the social-emotional climate of one half-day kindergarten classroom by examining the role of the teacher in establishing and sustaining a classroom climate that nurtured the social-emotional lives of students. This case study asks: How and why did the teacher establish and sustain a classroom…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Environment, Academic Standards
Norris, Karen S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experience of reflection and document how a holistic approach to teacher reflection contributes to teachers' understanding of, and improvement in their pedagogical practice. The investigation asked how classroom observations, when followed by a reflective dialogue, impact pedagogical practice. The…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Observation, Holistic Approach, Program Effectiveness