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Katherine A. Beardall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I examined the how honors programs and colleges serve as a tool for public universities to compete with private universities in the rankings game, as well as examining how that contributes to stratification processes. By building on the existing literatures within the organization of higher education, student experiences in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Honors Curriculum, College Students, Public Colleges
Kelley, George – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Service learning is an academic discipline that provides students with "hands-on" opportunities for developing skills in real-world, community-based projects that serve and benefit community members. This dissertation reflects an action-oriented process for improving the quality of the Service Learning Program at City University of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Program Evaluation, Action Research, College Students
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Fairweather, James S.; Brown, Dennis F. – Review of Higher Education, 1991
To develop and validate a framework for assessing academic program quality, national data from the fields of computer science and electrical and mechanical engineering were examined. Results, which are evaluated from four perspectives of quality assessment, support the notion that single-variable or single-dimension concepts of quality are…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Computer Science, Educational Quality