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Gretchen 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
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Cathcart, Abby; Dransfield, Mark; Floyd, Sarah; Campbell, Laurie-Anne; Carkett, Rachael; Davies, Vicky; Duhs, Ros; Smart, Fiona – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
Global membership of the HEA fellowship scheme is increasing. Despite the focus by academic developers on supporting staff to achieve fellowship, there is limited research that examines whether it improves teaching and the learning experience. Our detailed survey of educators in the UK and Australia indicates perceptions of impact on individuals,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Higher Education, Fellowships
David Henry Tanner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Workforce development is one of the top issues for state higher education executives today. Employers are actively looking for ways to address skill gaps and labor shortages in their companies. To address these talent gaps, states are aligning their academic program approval process with state workforce needs. Minimal research has explored the…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Higher Education, Labor Needs, State Policy
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Daniel Sidney Fussy – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
The research landscape in higher education is changing rapidly, with new challenges and opportunities emerging that require researchers to be adaptable and willing to learn new skills. The study reported in this article explored how Tanzanian universities can support the development of researchers. The study was guided by Linda Evans' conceptual…
Descriptors: Researchers, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Universities
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Wollschleger, Jason – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
Drawing from Stith et al.'s (2018) Critical Service-Learning Conversations Tool, this article provides a visual model for developing critical service-learning projects. This model proposes to assist the analysis of critical service-learning projects by grounding them in contemporary scholarship and literature. The model also reveals the interplay…
Descriptors: Models, Service Learning, Equal Education, Social Change
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Becca Hartman-Pickerill; Rebecca Russo – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Interfaith America's 2023 Landscape Analysis explores the purpose, range of desired outcomes, promising models, challenges, and opportunities of bridgebuilding efforts across U.S. higher education. This article articulates the importance of bridgebuilding for the sector and summarizes key findings from the Landscape Analysis. It highlights…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Campuses
Huber, Mary Taylor – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2020
Conversations about liberal education typically focus broadly on mission, goals, curricula, cocurricular educational opportunities, or overall student outcomes. Conversations about teaching and learning, by contrast, are more granular, focusing on what happens in the classroom, the teaching practices that faculty individually or collectively elect…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education, Teaching Methods
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
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Bhattacharya, Surjoday; Tripathi, Krishnakant; Kumar, Akhilesh – Cogent Education, 2023
The quality of e-content had been identified as one of the major constructs impacting the quality of e-learning and students' satisfaction. During the time of COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in the development of e-contents had been noted. Moreover, the new scenario also pushed the debate on the quality of e-learning that directly or indirectly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology
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
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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
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Mourad, Roger Philip – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
This paper explores the idea of a formalized "critical space" in higher education, using elements of Habermas's theory of communicative action and ideas from Barnett, Englund, and Marginson. Inquiry in this hypothetical space would use knowledge generated in existing domains to engage in dialogue, debate, and development of proposals and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Change Agents, Social Change, Higher Education
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Eynon, Bret; Bass, Randall; Iuzzini, Jonathan; Gambino, Laura M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
While research has generated abundant insight into effective professional learning methods, the field continues to suffer from a lack of systemic approaches. In response, a group of national professional learning leaders recently developed a framework that links proven professional learning methods to the strategic priorities of higher education…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Higher Education, Evidence Based Practice, College Students
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Bryan Powell; Donna Hewitt; Gareth Dylan Smith; Beatrice Olesko; Virginia Davis – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2020
Despite decades of discussion, debate, and incremental gains, acceptance of popular music education in collegiate institutions is still in its inception. Higher education (and indeed, education in general) in the United States is rife with pervasive inequality and injustice, excluding large numbers of potential students on the basis of race,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Music Education, Inclusion
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Mary Jo Orzech – OTESSA Journal, 2021
A librarian-led Faculty Learning Community (FLC) focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) can be a practical, low risk way to sustain campus-based OER programs during and after initial start-up. Creating a space for sharing teaching successes and challenges is an important goal in the iterative journey toward open. The experiences and trust…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Open Educational Resources, Librarians, Program Effectiveness
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