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Mia von Knorring; Hanna Karlsson; Elizabeth Stenwall; Matti Johannes Nikkola; Maria Niemi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to analyse student and teaching staff views on how higher education (HE) can contribute to sustainable development, and to provide examples of how a medical university has adopted the sustainable development goals (SDGs) as part of its institutional strategies and practises. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Medical Education, Universities
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Stevenson, Joseph Martin; Payne, Alfredda Hunt – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2016
This chapter describes how data analysis and data-driven decision making were critical for designing, developing, and assessing a new academic program. The authors--one, the program's founder; the other, an alumna--begin by highlighting some of the elements in the program's incubation and, subsequently, describe some of the components for data…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Higher Education, Black Colleges, Data
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Dragoo, Amie; Barrows, Richard – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
The number of competency-based education (CBE) degree programs has increased rapidly over the past five years, yet there is little research on CBE program development. This study utilized conceptual models of higher education change and a qualitative methodology to analyze the strategies and challenges in implementing CBE business degree programs…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models
Donnelly, Eileen – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Many higher education institutions have implemented online learning (OL) as a response to students' needing greater access to higher education. Although many universities have determined that meeting this increasing need for OL is important to their future strategies, some universities do not know how to structure their internal operations to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Educational Trends, Campuses
Gesner, Mark L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
When Ernest Boyer wrote his seminal thesis about how scholarship needed to be reconsidered (1990), he initiated a flood of inquiry regarding the role of higher education in society. Since Boyer's opening salvo, the value of having a community engaged campus began to earn more credibility (Driscoll, 2009; Furco, 2010). In particular, the vital role…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Leaders, School Community Relationship
Knights, Ronald M.; Monroe, Ben; Faurer, Judson; Williams, Linda J. – 1996
The unique approach of the African American Leadership Institute (AALI) to increasing the well-being of the African American community is described. The AALI was founded in 1990 by Metropolitan State College of Denver (Colorado) and the Urban League of Denver in the belief that all members of society should have an equal opportunity to pursue…
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Blacks, Community Development, Community Leaders
Adrian, Judith G.; And Others – 1993
This report describes the National Extension Leadership Development (NELD) Program. Section I offers interns' reflections on the meaning of NELD in Wisconsin. Section II is a history of NELD. Section III presents minutes of meetings of the National Advisory Committee. Sections IV-X provide overviews of the various programs offered through NELD in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Differences, Extension Agents, Extension Education
Groff, Warren H. – 1991
This report describes how Nova University started the Ed.D. Programs for Higher Education with a focus on preparing community college personnel. The Vocational, Technical, and Occupational Education (VTO) specialization consisted of two seminars: Personnel--Human Resources Development (P-HRD) and Emergence of VTO. The program focused on preparing…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking