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Jaynie Celeste Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examines how one college in a large private university sought to benefit its students by implementing a program of faculty-mentored, co-curricular high impact practices (HIPs). This qualitative single case study uses confirmatory and exploratory document analysis to examine how an educational leader translated institutional purpose via…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Program Implementation
Jordan King – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The learning journey toward sustainability requires the generation of action-oriented knowledge to understand the progress and potential adaptation of strategies to facilitate collective transformation. One integral area where advancing these strategies is essential is higher education. While efforts in the field have identified relevant learning…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation, Sustainability
Elizabeth Susanne Goode Dimond – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Inclusive postsecondary education programs (IPSE) for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) are relatively new, having their formal beginning in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA; P.L. 110-315) of 2008. These programs vary greatly and are found in urban, suburban, and rural areas of the United States. Those programs in rural areas…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Practices, Rural Schools, Postsecondary Education
Katherine Fogelberg, Editor – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2024
"Educational Principles and Practice in Veterinary Medicine" provides a detailed, comprehensive reference to the discipline of education both broadly and as it relates to veterinary medicine. Written for veterinary faculty members, instructors, and educators in other health professions, the book offers an in-depth examination of…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Educational Practices, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medical Education
Office of Finance and Operations, US Department of Education, 2024
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Education's (Department's) fiscal year (FY) 2024 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, other external stakeholders, and the American people on how the Department used the federal resources entrusted to it to advance the mission of the Department to promote student…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Kaczmarek, Joanne – EDUCAUSE, 2014
The expanding scope of IT initiatives in higher education institutions now goes well beyond basic desktop and enterprise applications. IT is often asked to focus on efforts to establish good information-governance practices. The many aspects of information governance are often found in a records and information management (RIM) program, but not…
Descriptors: Governance, Information Management, Information Policy, Program Administration
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Brown, Malcolm – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
The pressure on higher education to become more innovative and effective with respect to its teaching and learning (T&L) mission is unceasing. Institutions are challenged to rethink how they perform this core mission. The campus IT organization, always of strategic importance, can become a key partner and facilitator in that process. Its…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Institutional Mission, Instruction, Learning
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Bass, Scott A. – Journal of General Education, 2014
This article is critical of the implementation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) by institutions seeking the deep student learning often found in general education learning outcomes. Customized student interaction with an expert in the field is rendered impossible by the scale of mooc enrollment. Concerns are also raised about the economic…
Descriptors: Open Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Program Implementation
Alpert, Shannon Atkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study identified factors that influenced the use of project management in higher education research projects. Using a qualitative grounded theory approach that included in-depth interviews with assistant professors, the researcher examined how these individuals were using project management processes and tools and factors that enabled,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Higher Education, Schools of Education, Research Projects
Phillips, Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The aviation industry and higher education environments are ever-changing due to a multitude of economic and external variables. The leaders of aviation higher education programs must successfully lead their organization and followers in preparing student graduates for the industry that awaits them upon graduation. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Aviation Technology, Aviation Education
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Lamprianou, Iasonas – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
This article describes briefly the education system of Cyprus and elaborates on the recent changes in its large-scale assessment (LSA) programme. Until 2005, two independent LSA programmes existed: one for school-graduation purposes and one for gaining entrance to higher education. The introduction of a dual-purpose LSA program in 2006, due to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduation, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Dunworth, Katie – Quality in Higher Education, 2008
This paper describes the findings of an Australian Government-funded research project that sought to investigate the management of transnational English-language teaching programmes in the higher education sector with a view to identifying those activities that both facilitate and inhibit good practice as defined in the paper. Using data obtained…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Administration, English (Second Language)
Dannels, Deanna; Jackson, Nancy; Robertson, Terry; Sheckles, Ted; Tomlinson, Stephanie – 2001
This Proceedings from the Communication across the Curriculum (CXC) strand of the National Communication Association's 2001 Summer Conference first highlights and describes five of the most common types of programs across the nation: Speaking Intensive Programs, Combined Speaking and Writing Programs, Discipline-Specific Programs, Faculty…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Practices
Young, Raymond J.; McDougall, William P. – 1991
This book offers normative information about various operational facets of collegiate summer activities, places the role of the modern day collegiate summer session in evolutionary perspective, and provides baseline information produced by four national studies and one regional study. The book's chapters focus on: (1) a global perspective and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational History, Educational Practices, Higher Education
Geale, John; Duke, Chris – 1992
A project was conducted to identify good practice in continuing vocational education (CVE) and the barriers to increasing the quantity and quality of CVE provided by universities in the United Kingdom. During the project, 6 research briefing seminars were attended by 46 persons, 13 researchers conducted case studies, 17 researchers conducted key…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Department Heads, Educational Change
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