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Rural Midwestern Public College Safe Ride Program Case Study
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Mohfeld, Kathy I. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The central phenomenon researched in this case study was higher education administrators' decisions to institutionalize a safe ride program at a small, rural college. The purpose of this single/within-site case study was to describe the changes that happened at a rural public institution of higher education and the surrounding community in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Rural Schools, Public Colleges, Qualitative Research
The Role of Inquiry in Closing the Gap between University Experience and Assistant Principal Career Transition through Simulated Realistic Job Preview
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Kearney, W. Sean; Herrington, David E. – Education Leadership Review, 2013
Educational administration is the weakest program that schools of education offer...most (principal preparation programs) vary in quality from inadequate to appalling. Their shortcomings include irrelevant and incoherent curricula, low admission and graduation standards, inadequate clinical instruction...(and) degrees that are irrelevant to the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Administration, Relevance (Education), Administrator Education
E-Learning in European Higher Education Institutions: Results of a Mapping Survey Conducted in October-December 2013
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Gaebel, Michael; Kupriyanova, Veronika; Morais, Rita; Colucci, Elizabeth – European University Association, 2014
The present study on e-learning intends to contribute to closing a data gap and to stimulate the discussion on the further development of national and European policies on the issue and to support its systematic institutional take-up. It draws upon a survey conducted by the European University Association between October and December 2013. 249…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, School Surveys, Electronic Learning
Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability. SUNY Series, Praxis--Theory in Action
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Parker, Joe, Ed.; Samantrai, Ranu, Ed.; Romero, Mary, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
In the 1960s and 1970s, activists who focused on the academy as a key site for fostering social change began by querying the assumptions of the traditional disciplines and transforming their curricula, putting into place women's and ethnic studies programs that changed both the subject and methods of scholarship. The pattern of scholars and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Black Studies, Social Class, Global Approach
Transitional Experiences and Teacher Induction in a Texas Christian School
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Harmon, Christopher Marcus Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Highly qualified teachers are necessary to establish strong schools of instructional richness in which the student has the greatest opportunity to be academically successful. The responsibility of a teacher is much greater than just teaching academic content in a subject discipline. Schools are complex institutions which require teaching staff to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Needs, Student Behavior, Transitional Programs
Program Review: Setting a Standard
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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2009
This paper responds to Resolution 9.05 Fall 2007, calling for an update of the Academic Senate's 1996 paper Program Review: Developing a Faculty Driven Process in the light of recent accreditation changes and other emerging issues. This paper has been written to expand on the best elements of the 1996 paper and to stand on its own without…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Educational Quality, College Governing Councils