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Direct linkGretchen Oltman; Jackie Clark – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025
Designing, creating, and leading new degree programs can be an arduous and unpredictable task for any college or university faculty member. Faculty, typically trained within a specific discipline and who are charged with creating new degree programs, are rarely prepared for the process. In addition to being ill-prepared, faculty and academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Program Development
Peer reviewedLaurett, Rozelia; Paço, Arminda; Mainardes, Emerson Wagner – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to understand how the FUCAPE 120% Sustainable project promotes sustainable development in higher education. The project was conceived and implemented by FUCAPE Business School, a private higher education institution (HEI) specialised in business, located in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainability
Jason K. McDonald; Jonathan Balzotti; Melissa Franklin; Jessica Haws; Jamin Rowan – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
In this design case, we report our design and playtest of a form of alternative reality, educational simulation that we call a playable case study (PCS). One of the features that make our simulations unique is how they are designed to implement a principle called This Is Not a Game, or TINAG, meaning that the affordances we design into the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Program Design, Program Development, Barriers
Download full textTabitha Coates; Diane Foucar-Szocki; Randell Snow – Educational Planning, 2024
In this article we share our learning experiences on the organizational design barriers we perceived to have encountered with scenario planning in higher education for program development. Our perceived barriers discussed include misalignment of culture and change intervention; constructing organizational reality and meaning making; knowledge…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Higher Education, Vignettes, Outcomes of Education
Joshua R. Patterson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Even in a higher education environment characterized by a shift in student interest and funding sources towards STEM programs, some religious studies programs are able to expand at state universities. Prior research on curriculum, the development of the humanities, and organization decisions more broadly points to a complex array of factors…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Curriculum Development, Public Colleges, Higher Education
Policy and Global Affairs, Contributor; Roundtable on Mentorship Well-being and Professional Development, Contributor; Joe Alper, Rapporteur; Melissa E. Wynn, Rapporteur – National Academies Press, 2025
The Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-being, and Professional Development convened a workshop on October 28 and 29th, 2024 to explore how the well-being, professional development, and interpersonal and mentoring relationships of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty are affected by national and global events, cultural shifts, and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Well Being, Professional Development, Graduate Students
Lori Hartmann – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
This article begins with the question: "Why is study abroad focused on discrete locations and stasis when human history is characterized by movement, flows, and connectivity?" The answer to that question can be found in the original purposes of study abroad in addition to the historical and epistemological context in which these programs…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Mobility, Educational History, Program Development
Mei, Weihui; Symaco, Lorraine – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The rise of university-wide entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes in the past two decades is witnessed both in developed and developing regions. The 'Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation' strategy introduced in China in 2014 and series of policies issued afterwards highlight the increasing importance of entrepreneurship, and the parallel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, Higher Education
Lefevre, Fanchon; Bajs, Vanda – European Students' Union, 2021
Only 3% of the young people with refugee backgrounds are enrolled in Higher Education. Barriers remain extremely high when it comes to access, participation and success: recognition of qualification, language barriers, financial, legal and administrative burden, lack of social interaction, access to decent living conditions and (mental) health…
Descriptors: Refugees, Higher Education, Barriers, Access to Education
Ahmed, Manzoor; Bashir, Mehnaz; Tariq, Muhammad – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2022
The purpose of this study was to assess the degree colleges' preparation for the new transition phase, transferring the BA/BSc programs into ADA/ADS programs. The participants of this qualitative study were principals of Degree Colleges in the Makran division and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Themes generated from data…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Administrator Attitudes, Program Development
Supporting Pathways for First-Generation Students to Study Abroad. Global Education Research Reports
Leah Mason; Valerie Garcia – Institute of International Education, 2022
First-generation college students represent a growing segment of the U.S. higher education population and a group consistently underrepresented in study abroad programming (Cataldi et al., 2018; Rausch, 2017). According to the Consortium for Analysis of Student Success through International Education (CASSIE), only eight percent of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Guided Pathways, Study Abroad, Outcomes of Education
Esquibel, Joseph; Rook, Deborah L.; LoRe, Sondra M.; Starnes, John H.; Miller, Jillian M.; Buntz, Jennifer G.; Hugo, Alys; Nieuwsma, Christianne B.; Seitz, Heather; Bissell, Ahrash; Gross, Louis; Kiser, Stacey; Lenhart, Suzanne; Mills, Michael A.; Neuhauser, Claudia; Corriette, Irene; Prescott, Sarah; Jenkins, Kristin P.; Karpakakunjaram, Vedham – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Mastery of quantitative skills is increasingly critical for student success in life sciences, but few curricula adequately incorporate quantitative skills. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is designed to address this need by building a grassroots consortium of community college faculty to (1) engage in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Science, Community Colleges
Lehtonen, Miikka J., Ed.; Kauppinen, Tomi, Ed.; Sivula, Laura, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
This book explores how design thinking can transform higher education, with solutions ranging from single course sessions to whole programs and universities. The authors demonstrate how designing across disciplines is done, with disruptive technologies, ambiguity and challenges as catalysts. Iteratively tested pedagogies, design-driven solutions…
Descriptors: Design, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Program Development
Deirdre McKenna; Aleks Palanac – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2025
Among the barriers facing refugee-background students (RBS) in accessing Higher Education (HE) in the UK is reaching the required academic English standard, and accessing courses to support them with this (Ashlee & Gladwell 2020: 13). In response to these barriers, the Universities of Leicester and Leeds (both in the UK) have developed the…
Descriptors: Refugees, English for Academic Purposes, Teaching Methods, Trauma
Ferguson, Therese; Roofe, Carmel Geneva – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to focus on the role of higher education in the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, discussing both challenges and opportunities. Drawing on the example of The University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Education (SOE) (Mona Campus in Jamaica), this paper illustrates how higher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Role of Education
