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Nauffal, Diane I. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2012
Quality is a multi-dimensional concept and embraces all functions and activities of higher education (academic programs, research, and community services) in all their features and components. Traditionally quality was a measure of resources and reputation. In recent years there has been a shift in emphasis to institutional best practices such as…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Trend Analysis, Educational Quality
Schulte, Michael Bernard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Five chief academic officers (CAOs) represented their institutions and served as a purposeful sample to qualitatively explore how they used National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) results to facilitate institutional effectiveness and promote undergraduate student success. All these private Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) participated in…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Private Colleges, College Administration, Deans
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Lutz, Megan E.; Culver, Steven – Tertiary Education and Management, 2010
The National Survey of Student Engagement has been administered to freshmen and seniors at colleges and universities across the USA and Canada, since the spring of 2000, to gather information about the nature and the quality of their education. After each administration, participating schools are provided with an institutional report, including…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, Educational Practices, Factor Analysis
Overton-Adkins, Betty – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2008
This practice brief is one of a series highlighting key practices undertaken by some of the many successful Building Engagement and Attainment for Minority Students (BEAMS) schools during the project's five years of data collection and action plan implementation. These practice briefs accompany a monograph that details the process BEAMS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Tribally Controlled Education, Hispanic American Students
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Kezar, Adrianna J.; Kinzie, Jillian L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2006
This article reviews the results from an in-depth multi-site case study of 20 institutions examining approaches to student engagement exploring differences by mission. The research questions pursued were: Is mission related to distinctive approaches for creating an engaging environment for students? If so, in what ways? The results demonstrate a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, Student School Relationship, Institutional Mission
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2010
The Black College and University Act defined an historically black college and university (HBCU) as one that existed before 1964 with a historic and contemporary mission of educating blacks while being open to all. An HBCU must either have earned accreditation from a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or be making reasonable…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, School Effectiveness, Civil Rights Legislation, Student Development