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Deggs, David M.; Miller, Michael T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
A level of consistency between community college leaders and community leaders is necessary to demonstrate behaviors, actions, and beliefs that shape, represent, and support expected community values. Likewise, communities, which are collectives of suborganizations, play an important role in aiding individual development, especially related to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Leaders, Educational Attitudes, Public Officials
Ware, Thomas E., Jr.; Miller, Michael T. – 1997
This paper reviews the literature on the role that campus residential life plays in the life of college students. While some researchers have concluded that living on-campus or off-campus has little affect on student academic achievement (Bliming, 1989; Bowman and Partin, 1993), others have expressed that on-campus living produces students with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Housing, Dormitories, Educational Attitudes
Miller, Michael T.; Bila, Thomas A. – 1995
This study surveyed fund raising professionals concerning the reading materials that they felt were important in the preparation of fund-raising executives. Each of the 39 individuals surveyed was asked to name five readings. A total of 80 different items were identified, of which 7 were identified as important by 20 or more respondents. These…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Fund Raising, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Boening, Carl H.; Miller, Michael T. – 1997
This paper reviews the literature on college faculty sabbatical leave and sabbatical leave programs often described as 'paid vacations' with no accountability. The literature indicates that sabbatical leave was an important part of any faculty development program. Those who took sabbatical leaves overwhelmingly reported the experience as a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Attitudes, Faculty Development
Kang, Bai; Miller, Michael T. – 1999
This paper reviews the history of sabbatical leave in secondary and postsecondary education, as well as contemporary research on sabbatical leave, and offers some personal narratives of the sabbatical experience. It explains that sabbatical leave programs began at Harvard University in 1880, with professors granted a year of leave at half-pay…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Attitudes, Educational History, Higher Education
Baxter, Joseph T.; Miller, Michael T. – 1998
This study examined faculty perceptions of accessibility and quality of graduate programs offered via the Internet. A total of 25 faculty (38 percent return rate) with experience teaching graduate courses via the Internet completed an e-mailed survey. It was found that half of the respondents had less than one year of experience teaching graduate…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students