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Direct linkAndrea A. Wirth – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This paper describes results of a 2023 survey of authors who applied to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Open Article Fund, a fund that supports article processing charges (APCs). The survey sought feedback about the fund's impact, value, and award criteria as well as opinions on other open access topics. Results show that the fund has had a…
Descriptors: Universities, Access to Information, Authors, Attitudes
Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Zibin, Aseel – Quality in Higher Education, 2021
This study reviews three university ranking methodologies: Quacquarelli Sysmonds University Rankings, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities. It also aims to suggest two new methodologies, one for World University Ranking and one for Arab University…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
Download full textIrungu, Wanjiru Ruth; Liu, Xiaoguang; Han, Chuyu; Bomer, Alvin; Wanjiru, Wambui Ann – Higher Education Studies, 2020
The concept of "world-class university" has been there for some time, and everyone wants a world-class university, and no country feels it can do without one. This battle to develop world-class universities lies not only in the gained status but also in the symbolic role of such universities. Universities exist mainly for research and…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Agricultural Education, Reputation, College Role
Cooley, Alexander; Prelec, Tena; Heathershaw, John – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
We explore how the influx of foreign funding into the higher education sectors of the United States and United Kingdom has raised the challenge of "reputation laundering"--when foreign donors and individuals use donations to prestigious universities to boost their international public image and offset negative images or reported…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Pinar, Mehmet; Milla, Joniada; Stengos, Thanasis – Education Economics, 2019
To create their rankings, university-ranking agencies usually combine multiple performance measures into a composite index. However, both rankings and index scores are sensitive to the weights assigned to performance measures. This paper uses a stochastic dominance efficiency methodology to obtain two extreme, case-weighting vectors using the…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Willingham-McLain, Laurel – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
This study examines a college-teaching award that uses a scholarship of teaching model focusing on learning outcomes. Through questionnaires the researcher examined two groups' perceptions: award recipients and academic leaders. Respondents described the award and indicated the perceived effect on faculty and programs. Both groups highlighted…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Awards
Goree, Krystal; Williams, Yolanda; Hamilton, Suzanne; Mathews-Perez, Amy; Talbert, Sandra; Strot, Rick; Barrett, Sara; Bolfing, Darlene; Miller, Sue; Almaguer, Dora; Gilbreath, David; Martinez, Donna; Rubio, Belinda; Ward, Victoria; Edison, Ricky; Henry, Marsha; Mechell, Rebecca; Pritchard, Melissa; Welsh, Kaitlin – School-University Partnerships, 2019
The PDS partnership between Baylor University and Waco Independent School District commenced in 1993 in the context of a national conversation about innovations for improving teacher preparation and practice. During its 25-year history, the partnership has garnered national recognition, with Hillcrest PDS serving as one of 18 representative PDS…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, School Districts
Çakiroglu, Ünal; Kiliç, Servet – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2018
Participation in synchronous online learning is an increasing need for students' learning outcomes. Teachers generally cannot be sure about the fact that students who are seen in the participation lists are really following the online tasks. Recent studies have shown that gamification can be an effective way to support learners' participation in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Vignettes, Computer Games, Student Characteristics
Komochkova, Olga – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2016
The article deals with peculiarities of undergraduate and postgraduate linguistic courses at Lancaster University. It has been stated that the latter is considered to be one of the best higher education institutions both in the UK and worldwide. Being a relatively new higher education institution (founded in 1964), it can already boast its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Linguistics
Charyton, Christine; DeDios, Samantha Lynn; Nygren, Thomas Eugene – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2015
We investigated how new ideas become accepted for Nobel laureates in science. Archival data were collected for 204 Nobel laureates from 1980 to 2009 in physics, chemistry, and medicine or physiology. Acceptance was evaluated for Nobel laureates by Prize area and three key publications in the Nobel laureates' publishing careers: (a) first…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Awards, Reputation, Journal Articles
Stack, Michelle – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2020
Drawing on the concepts of mediatisation and celebrification, this paper analyses how the Nobel Prize is used as a proxy of excellence by the 'Big Three' university rankers and top-ranked universities. Ranking advisories, university leadership at top-ranked institutions, and Nobel Prize adjudication committees are overwhelming from the same…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Reputation, Awards
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2019
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into a single document more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past goals…
Descriptors: State Universities, Research Universities, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2019
This report combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into a single document more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This document enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past goals and actual data to better…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning
Soh, Kaycheng – Higher Education Review, 2014
World university rankings (WUR) use the weight-and-sum approach to arrive at an overall measure which is then used to rank the participating universities of the world. Although the weight-and-sum procedure seems straightforward and accords with common sense, it has hidden methodological or statistical problems which render the meaning of the…
Descriptors: Reputation, Correlation, Institutional Evaluation, Statistical Analysis
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2019
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into a single document more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past goals…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning
