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Lauren E. Reagan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Self-reported positive effects of peer mentoring for mentors and mentees have included enhanced academic performance, greater sense of belonging, and retention, among other widely accepted benefits of the intervention. However, minimal quantitative or mixed methods research has focused on mentoring staff who design, implement, and therefore…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, College Faculty, Public Colleges
Barragan, Melissa; Escobar, Martha D.; Gonzalez, Lily; Terriquez, Priscilla – About Campus, 2023
Project Rebound works to support currently and formerly incarcerated people to enter higher education. As Project Rebound continues to grow, gain national acclaim, and traction within California State University (CSU), it is critical that higher education practitioners reflect on the program's evolution, successes, and challenges not only to fully…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutionalized Persons, Program Implementation, Access to Education
Mackenzie Jessip – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore educators' perceptions of the implementation of CTE in preparing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to seamlessly transition from high school to the workforce or higher education post-graduation. Framework: The California Career Technical Standards for Grades Seven…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Skill Development, Career Readiness
Natow, Rebecca S.; Reddy, Vikash; Ioannou, Victoria – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
In the United States, higher education institutions must be authorized as postsecondary education providers -- through a process known as state authorization -- to be eligible to receive federal student financial aid funds. Through state authorization policies, state governments play a key role in maintaining accountability for higher education.…
Descriptors: Responses, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Culver, K. C.; Harper, Jordan; Kezar, Adrianna – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2021
A customized guide about liberatory design thinking processes that have been tested within college settings to support changes that enhance equity in policies and practices within institutions. This research is based on case studies of several institutions, including focus group interviews with the campus design teams and an analysis of artifacts.…
Descriptors: Design, Program Design, Colleges, Universities
Lopez-Phillips, Matthew Joe Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is an investigation of how a graduation initiative at a single university was implemented in ways that reveal approaches that do not prioritize what I consider to be the goal of higher education--"the common good of all." Using autoethnography combined with an indigenous-oriented approach I borrowed from another dissertation…
Descriptors: State Universities, Graduate Study, Program Implementation, Higher Education
LaCroix, Luke Leo – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Restorative justice is an emerging topic related to college student behavioral issues and offers a personal behavior alternative strategy. It is used predominantly to address crime, misconduct, and injustices in criminal justice, K-12 education, and higher education arenas. Restorative justice addresses harm through dialogue with goals of…
Descriptors: Justice, Conflict Resolution, Correctional Rehabilitation, College Students
Haggerty, Julie M.; Mueller, Megan Kiely – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
This study investigated the prevalence of increasingly popular animal-assisted stress relief programs at higher education institutions across the United States. Although research on animal-assisted programs is increasing, there is still a lack of information documenting implementation of these programs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Animals, Stress Management, Higher Education, Intervention
Lewis, Jodi; Nodine, Thad; Venezia, Andrea – Education Insights Center, 2017
This brief focuses on the potential role of County Offices of Education (COEs) in bridging the state's vision for college and career readiness with the implementation needs of local districts and schools. After summarizing the work of 10 COEs that are known for supporting districts in increasing college and career readiness, the brief raises…
Descriptors: Counties, County School Districts, Public Agencies, College Readiness
Burnette, Diane M. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
Although competency-based education (CBE) has existed since the early 1970s adult-focused degree programs, interest in CBE has spiked in recent years due to the increased attention on higher education affordability and accountability. This article reviews the extant literature on CBE to address the following questions: (a) What are the definitions…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Literature Reviews, Definitions, Program Descriptions
Kezar, Adrianna; Gehrke, Sean; Elrod, Susan – Review of Higher Education, 2015
This study examines the role of implicit theories of change in inhibiting STEM reform and identifies a range of approaches to help change agents alter their implicit beliefs in order to develop more explicit theories of change. Through observations and interviews, we focus on the experience of reform teams on 11 campuses that were involved in a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Change, Barriers, Change Agents
Nicholson, Julie; Lin, Betty; Maniates, Helen; Woolley, Ristyn; Groves, Michelle Grant; Engdahl, Eric – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2018
This study examines how, if at all, multiple subjects and administrative services credential preparation programs are changing in response to California's newest grade, Transitional Kindergarten (TK). We analyzed interviews from university faculty in early childhood education and credential programs in five institutions of higher education and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Transitional Programs, Kindergarten
Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Olson, Avery B. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Through a one year-long, qualitative study of welfare-to-work students, this study investigates the developing epistemologies of women enrolled in a community college CalWORKs program. We investigate how poverty as a macro-environment and the community college as a micro-environment influence participants' epistemological development. Findings…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Poverty, Epistemology
Hom, Willard C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
The system office for community college institutional research (SOCCIR) plays a role in the drama of higher education that states must orchestrate to help community college systems operate effectively and efficiently over the long term. But how exactly does the SOCCIR enable a state to accomplish what the separate institutional research (IR)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Public Sector
Shulock, Nancy; Moore, Colleen – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2014
This report provides six mini-case studies of higher education policy reforms enacted in other states, exploring the important role that state policy leadership played in developing, promoting, and implementing these policies aimed at improving higher education outcomes, and discussing the relevance of each reform effort for California. This…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Case Studies