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Andrade, Maureen Snow; Miller, Ronald Mellado; Kunz, Michelle B.; Ratliff, Janet M. – Open Learning, 2022
College students today are much more diverse in their needs than in the past (e.g., they may live off campus, work full or part time, and seek ways to lessen college-related debt). Institutions of higher education are seeking ways to more effectively reach this diverse student population, often through online education. Institutions also realise…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Schools, College Faculty, Distance Education
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Trevisan, Ottavia; De Rossi, Marina; Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald; Smits, Anneke – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
In the rush for the COVID-19 pandemic's online transition, the pursuit of quality online learning was frequently overshadowed by the urgency of emergency instruction online. As blended and online teaching became an integral part of education, there emerged a need to investigate how faculty coped with this transition and what competencies they…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Web Based Instruction, Teacher Competencies, Technology Integration
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Steffen Wild; Olga Kunina-Habenicht – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Longitudinal research on students' interest in higher education showed that interest declines throughout the study program. While researchers reported numerous factors explaining interest on the student level, research on the relationship between the lecturer level and students' interest development is considered scarce. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Interests, Predictor Variables, College Faculty
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Salifu, Inusah; Odame, Ebenezer Darkwah – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
This study examined the influence of demographic variables on efficacious behaviour occurring in three domains of the work of university teachers -- teaching, research, and service activities. The study used a quantitative cross-sectional survey with a sample of 567 teachers randomly selected from public and private universities across Ghana. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy
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Zilvinskis, John; Morgan, Demetri L.; Dugan, Brendan – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Following insights gleaned from a previous study the authors conducted, and to encourage greater transparency in the quantitative research design of higher education studies, the authors tested which institution-level variables found within the activism literature can be retained when modeling student activism behavior at multiple levels (Morgan,…
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Institutional Characteristics, Predictor Variables
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Santos, João M.; Horta, Hugo; Amâncio, Lígia – Gender and Education, 2021
The presence of gender disparities in academia was assessed by analysing the characteristics of the research agendas of academics. Multivariate analysis of variance and structural equation modelling coupled with multi-group analysis were used to identify different gender trajectories. The research agenda preferences of women were less risky and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Gender Differences
Carhart, Michael R. – Online Submission, 2021
In 2015, a national student organization called the Black Liberation Collective, composed of local student organizations at multiple institutions, initiated, led protests, and issued demands to institutions across the United States. The student organizations that mobilized occurred at institutions with more resources including higher endowments,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Dickson, Tara; Zafereo, Jason – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
The physical therapy profession in the United States suffers from a shortage of providers of color. This is unlikely to change with newly graduating students, as 2.6% of 2017 graduates were African American and 5.7% were Hispanic or Latino. Faculty mentorship has a more profound influence on the retention of underrepresented minority students as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Influence, Minority Group Students, Physical Therapy
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Christ, Tanya; Arya, Poonam; Chiu, Ming Ming – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2021
One-hundred ninety-nine literacy professors responded to an online survey. A multivariate outcome logit/probit model was used to analyze these data to determine how professor and institution characteristics were related to (a) technologies that professors use in their courses, (b) technologies that professors prepare teachers to use, (b) teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Educators, College Faculty, Institutional Characteristics
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Peijian Paul Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To sustain students' continuous learning in a COVID-19 pandemic context, schools and universities have shifted traditional classroom teaching to synchronous online teaching. However, there is limited understanding of acceptance and adoption of synchronous online teaching by university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, English (Second Language)
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Beck, Christopher W.; Blumer, Lawrence S. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Science self-efficacy, a student's confidence in being able to perform scientific practices, interacts with science identity and outcomes expectations, leading to improved performance in science courses, persistence in science majors, and ultimately, the pursuit of advanced training in the sciences. Inquiry-based laboratory courses have been shown…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty
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Garibay, Juan C.; Mathis, Christopher – Education Sciences, 2021
Drawing upon Hartman's (1997) notion of the afterlife of slavery and Critical Race Quantitative Inquiry, this study examines whether Black college students' emotional responses to their institution's history of slavery plays a role in contemporary interactions with white faculty. Using structural equation modeling techniques on a sample of 92…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Slavery, United States History, African American Students
Ashton Robert Webb – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study investigates two areas to increase the understanding of university patenting activity using raw data recently made available through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PatentsView application. First, the study assesses the relationship of institutional characteristics to the number of patents granted, and the subject fields of those…
Descriptors: Universities, College Administration, Intellectual Property, Institutional Characteristics
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Stroup, Nicholas R.; Fenton-Miller, Solomon – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Given the substantial lack of racial diversity within the U.S. legal profession, it is important to understand how to improve the representation of racially minoritized students at law schools. This study uses panel data from the 2010s to consider several types of factors that may shape the number and percentage of incoming law school students…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Student Diversity, Law Schools, Disproportionate Representation
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Alhaznawi, Ameen Ali; Alanazi, Abdullah Saleh – World Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to explore the attitudes of faculty members at higher education toward inclusion for students with high incidence disabilities in higher education. For the aim of this study, a sample of 247 higher education faculty members were therefore collected. Multiple linear regression was conducted for data analysis. Results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, College Students
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