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Nina Seidenberg; Ioana Jivet; Maren Scheffel; Vitomir Kovanovic; Grace Lynch; Hendrik Drachsler – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024
A relevant learning space for academics, especially junior researchers, is the academic conference. While conference participation has long been associated with personal attendance at the conference venue, virtual participation is becoming increasingly important. This study investigates the perceived value of a purely virtual academic conference…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), College Faculty, College Students, Researchers
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Donna M. Velliaris, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
Higher education often involves academic challenges like course selection or financial aid navigation. Developing effective study skills, mastering time management, refining note-taking techniques, and tackling complex course content demands dedication and proactivity. However, support services such as academic skills workshops and writing centers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Academic Support Services, Student Personnel Services
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Basgier, Christopher; Simpson, Amber – Across the Disciplines, 2020
A growing body of scholarship in writing studies has started exploring threshold concepts for writing, providing a synoptic view of the transformations students undergo as they learn about writing. However, the field has not yet undertaken a systematic investigation of threshold concepts for the teaching of writing. A distinction between threshold…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, College Faculty, Fundamental Concepts, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Tovar, Lynn Atkinson; Misischia, Cynthia – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2020
In developing college short term travel programs whether domestic or abroad it is essential for faculty to recognize the obstacles and challenges to ensure an enriching experience for students. Experiential learning was the guiding principle to teaching the curriculum; however, civility and respect became a lens in which to examine the qualitative…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Length, Travel, Faculty Development
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Choo, Juliet; Tan, Yew Kong; Ong, Faith; Tiong, Shiuan Shiuan; Nair, Sangeeta; Ong, Jean; Chan, Angel – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2019
Service-learning (S-L) was adopted as a signature pedagogy in Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2016. The present study investigated students' civic and academic learning, personal growth, and career preparation in S-L at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, using mixed methods. The scales and subscales used in this study had acceptable internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Best Practices, College Students
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Gintaras K. Duda; Mary Ann Danielson – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2018
The Collaborative Curricular (re)Construction, or C3, was an initiative at Creighton University that paired faculty (academics) and students in a process of backward course design, in two cohorts, in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 academic years. Faculty/student pairs worked over the span of a year to redesign a course within their discipline; courses…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Partnerships in Education, College Students, College Faculty
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Marquis, Elizabeth; Guitman, Rachel; Black, Christine; Healey, Mick; Matthews, Kelly E.; Dvorakova, Lucie Sam – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
This article explores the perceptions of participants following the first International Summer Institute (SI) on students as partners in higher education, a four-day professional development experience designed to foster student-staff partnerships. Approximately 9 months after the Institute, 10 participants were interviewed to understand their…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Communities of Practice, Teacher Student Relationship, Higher Education
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Chambers, Kaia; Romsa, Bryan; Romsa, Katelyn – College Student Affairs Journal, 2021
Campus sexual misconduct has been a growing concern in recent years. The researchers of this qualitative study analyzed the perceived adequacy of current sexual misconduct training and delivery practices from Title IX coordinators representing 11 higher education institutions across the United States. Results point to the importance of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Sexual Abuse, Training, Program Effectiveness
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Thompson, Darrall – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The benefits of an educational shift to graduate attribute development have been foregrounded in the educational literature since the early 1990s. Attribute mapping in documentation with no change to assessment constitutes a surface approach. This paper aims to use as an example a deep approach that uses software to facilitate staff and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Computer Software
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Bekken, Barbara; Marie, Joan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Making self-authorship a goal of an interdisciplinary multisemester general education program shows great promise for meeting desired undergraduate learning outcomes for citizen-learners. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, General Education, Outcomes of Education, College Students
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Kramer, Howard C. – NACADA Journal, 1983
A healthy advising program serves as a useful vehicle for faculty development. An institution may use the program to develop faculty skills useful in other contexts than the individual student's welfare. Advising programs should endeavor to improve students, faculty, and the institution. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Students, Counselor Role, Counselor Training
Forrest, Linda; And Others – 1984
Sexism in educational institutions has limited women's careers, educational opportunities, and employment. Examples of this inequity include the facts that: (1) few women are chief executives in colleges; (2) women faculty earn less than men faculty; and (3) implicit and explicit attitudes such as the "old boy" network cause problems for women.…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Faculty Development, Females
Simon's Rock Early Coll., Great Barrington, MA. – 1981
This report describes a faculty development project carried out from 1978 to 1980 at Simon's Rock of Bard College, an experimental program for the younger than average college student. The project had three aims: (1) to develop practical methods of determining a student's position with respect to cognitive, moral, and ego development and to track…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Curriculum Development, Developmental Psychology
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Caple, Richard B. – New Directions for Student Services, 1996
Presents a rationale for student affairs professionals to serve as campus consultants on learning. Identifies particular areas in which they can work with students and faculty as consultants and also provides examples. Discusses assessment, student peer groups, conflict resolution, faculty development, student learning, collaborative efforts, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Consultants, Consultation Programs, Educational Strategies
Lenning, Oscar T.; Mohnkern, Donald F. – 1986
Student retention at Roberts Wesleyan College, a four-year liberal arts college in New York State, is discussed, and an overview of the college is presented. Consideration is given to changes that were made on the campus starting during fall 1983 that may have promoted student development and retention. These developments include: an innovative…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, College Freshmen, College Students
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