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Sarah A. Levin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student veterans may encounter educational barriers that can impact transitions to college. This research focused on veteran transitions to college during onboarding. Onboarding is beneficial in a higher education setting and, when properly deployed, can help ease transitions. This study involved the development, implementation, and assessment of…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Program Development, Transitional Programs, Program Evaluation
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Weidner, C. Ken, II – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of economic inequality and the inadequacy of current minimum wage laws in the United States. Changes in the minimum wage, a living wage, or just employment practices may be compelled by law or voluntarily enacted by employers. A literature search failed to yield a concise and practical tool to…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Policy Formation, Human Resources, Higher Education
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Keith, Caleb J.; Karnick, Kristine Brunovska; Kohler, Chandra L.; Teske, Eric J.; Ninon, A. Sonia – Assessment Update, 2023
Program review is a critical process in higher education that helps institutions assess and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and services. Program review provides an opportunity for an institution to identify strengths and weaknesses in its programs and services and to develop strategies for improvement. Through the program review process,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Resource Allocation
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Firm Faith Watson; Anthony A. Piña; Jonathan Small – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2024
Launching a successful new online learning initiative or expanding existing online learning offerings takes careful planning and preparation. Online learning is an institution-wide endeavor, involving multiple departments, functions, and personnel, many of which require modifications or rethinking to meet the needs of fully online learners.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Improvement, Guidelines, Educational Policy
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Othayman, Majed Bin; Mulyata, John; Meshari, Abdulrahim; Debrah, Yaw – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: This article aims to investigate the challenges faced during the training and development (T&D) evaluation process from the point of view of faculty members and HR managers in Saudi Arabian public universities, and to examine the influence of these challenges on the effectiveness of T&D programmes in public universities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Training, Training Methods
Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas; Mimi Benjamin; Jody E. Jessup-Anger – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience. Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in "Living-Learning Communities That Work," as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, Higher Education, Educational Benefits, Undergraduate Students
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Wise, Sarah B.; Ngai, Courtney; Corbo, Joel Christopher; Gammon, Mark A.; Rivard, Jaclyn K.; Smith, Clara E. – To Improve the Academy, 2022
Due to the "wicked problem" of the Academy's resistance to innovation, new teaching and learning programs struggle to become integrated into the fabric of the Academy, which slows the uptake of evidence-based practices. This wicked problem is rooted in the lack of slow, intentional mechanisms for cultural change in the Academy. In this…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Higher Education, Resource Centers
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Salto, Dante J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Accreditation as a form of quality assurance has spread worldwide. As a result, the public and research interests have targeted the policies that developed agencies and procedures and the responses and effects of accreditation on higher education organizations and programs. However, studies on accreditation have not analyzed two core aspects: the…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Incentives
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Crysdian, Cahyo – Cogent Education, 2022
This study discusses the role of university and industry in Indonesia's higher education system, particularly in learning information technology and the related fields. Three data sources were used to collect information on learning practices, i.e., the higher education policies representing the government's perspective, the knowledge…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship
Venters, Monoka – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2021
Statewide higher education governing and coordinating boards have long been involved in academic planning, academic program review, and academic program approval. A detailed analysis of the templates that statewide boards require institutions to use during the program approval and review processes reveals the role these processes play in ensuring…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Policy, Resource Allocation, Enrollment Trends
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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
Guthmuller, Sophie; Meroni, Elena Claudia – European Commission, 2022
This report focuses on the evaluation of 'Higher education grant system for less privileged students' in Portugal, a grant program for students (coming from families) with low income whose purpose is to respond to the real needs of students, ensuring equity in the allocation of social benefits and, as a consequence, promoting social action that…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Higher Education, Grants, Educational Finance
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Hines, Susan R. – To Improve the Academy, 2017
This paper provides a program evaluation model, along with field-testing results, that was developed in response to the need for an evaluation model able to support systematic evaluation of teaching and learning centers (CTLs). The model builds upon the author's previous studies investigating the evaluation practices and struggles experienced at…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Models, Resource Centers, Educational Development
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Koshy, Paul; Dockery, Alfred Michael; Seymour, Richard – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper examines factors affecting parental expectations of higher education prospects for their children using Australian household survey data. We find that a variety of factors influence parental expectations, of which parents' assessment of their children's academic performance is the strongest. Factors known to impact upon actual higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Aspiration, Parent Child Relationship, Higher Education
European University Association, 2019
The evaluation of learning and teaching is one central activity through which universities monitor the fitness-for-purpose of their education provision. This paper represents the outcomes of the work carried out by the European University Association (EUA) Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group on "Evaluation of learning and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
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