To keep up with technology changes and industry trends, it is essential for Information Systems (IS) programs to maintain up to date curricula. In doing so, IS educators need to determine what the IS core is and implement it in their curriculum. This study performed a descriptive analysis of 2,229 core courses offered by 394 undergraduate IS…

Improving rates of honors program completion is a goal of virtually all honors directors and deans, and research can help identify and evaluate promising strategies. A number of recent empirical studies have investigated predictors of program completion, including students' admission credentials and honors program features. Though specific…

This paper investigates higher education (HE) student recruitment practices from the standpoint of market orientation. By adopting the well-established market orientation framework of Narver and Slater [1990, The effect of a market orientation on a business profitability. "Journal of Marketing" 54, no. 4: 20-35], we examine the extent to…

Higher education in the United States is facing a potential leadership crisis. With the average age of campus presidents now surpassing 60 years, many senior level administrators will be expected to retire in the near future, creating a large wave of vacancies (Stripling, 2011). University and college boards are faced with the dilemma of fewer…

This document details the various academic programs, student services, and students involvement opportunities at Wayne Community College (North Carolina). Wayne Community College is a student-centered, public, two-year college with an open-door admissions policy. Seven modern buildings on a new campus contain more than 287,000 square feet of…

This article is a pre-conference paper prepared for participants at AACRAO's Fifteenth Annual Strategic Enrollment Management Conference (SEM XV), held November 13-16, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois. This is the first of a three-part series. In this series of papers, David Kalsbeek introduces a four-fold construct for differentiating and comparing…

This article is the second in a series of pre-conference papers prepared for participants at AACRAO's Fifteenth Annual Strategic Enrollment Management Conference (SEM XV), held November 13-16, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. This second article of the three-part series has sought to further define, delineate, and differentiate four broad orientations…

An Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) is used to assess a health science subsystem within a Western statewide higher educational system. Institutional goals are defined as ideal conditions the institution can continuously seek to maximize or perfect. Data were collected from each college and campus responsible for health science education and for…

This paper focuses on the content and evaluation of an orientation program for new foreign teaching assistants in an American college or university. The objective of the program is to familiarize the foreign teaching assistant with the sociocultural and academic differences in the university system that may cause a communication breakdown within…

A basic assumption about school enrollment is that classrooms are stable over the school year. Patterns of student mobility, teacher strategies for student orientation, teacher perceptions of mobile students, the effects of student mobility on principals' decision making, and the relationship between principals' decisions and student population…

Information about and excerpts from the 1981 "Commuter Institution Index," an annual publication on research on commuter institutions of higher education are presented. The Index provides an overview of the demographic characteristics of responding institutions and the functions most frequently performed by these institutions for commuters. It…

A summary of the original 14 federally funded Regional Education Programs, which served as models of ways in which postsecondary campuses can provide services to disabled students, is presented, along with recommendations for an effective program, annotated bibliographies, and four fact sheets designed to answer specific questions about…