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Fishman, Seth Matthew – Assessment Update, 2023
At Villanova University, with approximately 11,000 students enrolled across six colleges and a law school, generating ways to engage faculty in assessment professional development can be challenging, particularly for an institution with a decentralized assessment system. During faculty interactions, it is often heard that faculty dislike attending…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Cooperative Learning, Teacher Collaboration
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Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success is a national effort to better support the professoriate. In 2018, The Delphi Project launched an award for campuses that had made significant efforts to better support their nontenure-track faculty, including exploring and implementing new faculty models that lead to more secure and…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Awards, Faculty Development
Jon Gerald Kramer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Developing autonomy-supporting instructional communication styles is essential for modeling skills, inspiring teacher-student interactions, and motivating students to personalize the learning experience in postsecondary career and technical education programs. The study, guided by self-determination theory's dialectical framework, examined if and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Teacher Behavior, College Faculty
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Douglas Strahler; Steven Verba; Christine Walsh; Jeffrey Rathlef – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2025
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) offer a collaborative and structured environment for professional development, enabling educators to build their capacity to incorporate service-learning into their teaching practices. This study examines the initial impact of a FLC for institutional awareness and implementation of service-learning at Slippery…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Service Learning, Faculty Development, Models
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Rogers, Christopher R.; Mendelsohn, Ben; Strong, Krystal – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Background: This article considers the speculative and pedagogical character of campus abolitionist organizing. Extending education research into the knowledge (re)producing functions of radical activism, we draw upon the Black Radical Tradition to theorize the intersections of learning and imagination in both activism and education. Method: The…
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Research, Teaching Experience, Faculty College Relationship
American Association of University Professors, 2025
This report concerns the actions taken against Dr. Maura Finkelstein by the administration of Muhlenberg College, namely her termination without cause following allegations of anti-Zionism and discrimination based on her social media presence. The committee found that the Muhlenberg administration wrongly utilized the college's equal opportunity…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Tenure, College Administration
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Nita A. Tarchinski; Thomas Matthew Colclough; Ashley Atkinson; Emily Bonem; Nathan Emery; Victoria Farrar; Madeleine Gonin; Daniel Guberman; Eleanor Louson; Matthew Mahavongtrakul; Timothy McKay; Marco Molinaro; Meryl Motika; Lizette Alda Muñoz Rojas; Hurshal Pol; Kem Saichaie; Kelsey Smart; Megan Stowe; Natasha T. Turman; Jenna Marie Thomas Vest; Ryan Sweeder – To Improve the Academy, 2025
The STEM Equity Learning Community (SELC) project guided multidisciplinary teams from nine large, public research institutions through a yearlong experience. We aimed to support instructors and undergraduate students in developing equity-mindedness to drive structural change efforts on their campuses. The SELCs were supported by access to equity…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Equal Education, STEM Education, Educational Change
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Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr.; Blecic, Deborah D.; De Groote, Sandra L.; Shultz, Mary – College & Research Libraries, 2023
This study adds to a series investigating the publication patterns of refereed articles in Library and Information Science (LIS) journals by United States academic librarians (USALs). The first study covered 1993-97, and subsequent studies continued in five-year increments. This study presents data and metrics for 2013-17 from fifty-two journals:…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Publications, Faculty Publishing
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Holley Friedlander; Jennifer Schaefer – PRIMUS, 2024
Though posters have been used as a pedagogical tool in a variety of fields, the literature suggests that the use of posters as an educational assessment tool by the mathematics community has been limited. This is unfortunate given the numerous potential benefits of a poster, including the development of oral communication skills and the ability to…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Visual Aids, Student Evaluation, Algebra
Sara J. Conroy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study experimentally investigated the effect of training on faculty perceptions of teaching self-efficacy in first-year experience (FYE) courses at a two-year college. All faculty qualified and trained to teach FYE at a two-year college in Southwestern Pennsylvania were eligible for the study. Participants (n = 34) were randomly assigned into…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, First Year Seminars, Self Efficacy, Faculty Development
National Education Association, 2023
Last summer, the National Education Association (NEA) developed a New Business Item to explore retrenchment: "The NEA shall make a statistical study on the effect of significant faculty retrenchment at community colleges on future faculty cuts" (NBI 78, 2022). ASA Research (ASA) conducted exploratory research in an attempt to identify…
Descriptors: Retrenchment, Faculty Mobility, Employment Practices, College Faculty
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Danica E. White; Erica Mi – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2023
Undergraduate research offers a significant avenue for enhancing the engagement and skill development of underrepresented students, particularly those from BIPOC backgrounds. This study conducted at Penn State University aimed to illuminate the challenges faced by BIPOC students in their pursuit of undergraduate research opportunities and promote…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Minority Group Students, Barriers
Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
College fluency can help students successfully engage with and self-advocate within the culture and bureaucracy of higher education institutions to achieve their goals. To further examine and develop effective strategies to foster college fluency, the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library (BMCC) and Ithaka S+R have collaborated on the…
Descriptors: Student College Relationship, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services
David J. Dausey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
After responding to decades of external pressures, many higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United States have become stuck in a vicious cycle of declining enrollments, increased discount rates, decreased revenues, and increased debt. This vicious cycle has put these HEIs on an unsustainable path that may drive long-vulnerable HEIs to…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Cultural Influences, Social Integration, Acculturation
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Green, Madeleine F. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2021
In fall 2013, The Teagle Foundation issued an RFP inviting selected institutions and organizations to apply for grants that addressed the following question: "How can faculty work together to create a more coherent and intentional curriculum whose goals, pathways, and outcomes are clear to students and other constituencies with a stake in the…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Curriculum Development, Grants, Curriculum Implementation
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