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McKelvey, Kevin F. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This instrumental case study explores the experiences of visiting faculty members at an American university's international branch campus (IBC) in Singapore. It is concerned with one aspect of the broader topic of quality assurance in transnational higher education: the manner in which faculty hybridize their home campus course curricula for use…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Hunt, Terry Lile – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Scope and method of study: The purpose of this study was to construct a descriptive analysis of aviation maintenance training programs that confer the Bachelor of Science degree and who are members of the Aviation Technician Education Council. The sample was comprised of the 11 educational programs within the population that met these criteria.…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Administrative Organization, Technical Education, Questionnaires
Sonstrom, Wendy Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A list of programs that offer a doctorate in adult education was created using the most recent edition of "Peterson's Graduate Programs in Business, Education, Health, Information Studies, Law & Social Work" (2010) and the most recent version of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education (CPAE) "Directory of Adult Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Courses, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Caglioti, Carla – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing, usually housed within the English Department, has become a progressively more popular field of study among students and budget conscious administrators. But for all its popularity, it is a field that has been left generally unexamined by scholars. While there have been numerous scholarly studies…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Creative Writing, Intellectual Disciplines, English Departments
Rinehart, Michelle A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There has been a renewed interest in the purposes of professional education and the teaching of civic professionalism, whereby future professionals are exposed to their responsibility to use their specialized skills and knowledge to serve the public good. Recent studies on civic purposes in professional education, however, have largely ignored the…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Focus Groups, Teaching Methods
Littlejohn, Deborah Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This research concerns the culture of design education in the context of great change in the social and professional conditions of practice. Findings illuminate interrelationships among pedagogy, professional identity and the design of the instructional setting in programs that teach visual communication and interaction design. Participants'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Grounded Theory, Models
Cubbage, Kent T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The Great Books hold a special place in scholarly and academic lore in America. Study of the Great Books and liberal education in general were the foundation of a college education since the colonial times, but yielded to electives and other academic trends during the early portion of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, several men sought to…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Finance, College Curriculum, Educational History