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Melanie Vanleer Buford – Journal of Career Development, 2025
American colleges and universities have been called upon to provide equitable career preparation for an increasingly racially diverse student body, yet little research has been done to examine understandings of racial equity among career professionals. This qualitative case study examined perspectives on racial equity among career professionals in…
Descriptors: Career Centers, School Personnel, Universities, Race
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Peter Woelert; Bjørn Stensaker – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2025
Over recent decades, one can identify two key narratives associated with changes in university organization and governance. The first narrative focuses on the administrative consequences of an off-loading state relinquishing direct control over some of universities' internal operations while at the same time driving bureaucratization at the…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, School Restructuring, Administrative Organization, Universities
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Kamaludin Yusra; Yuni Budi Lestari; Wei-Lin Chen – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2025
Purpose: This article examines how CE in Indonesia has been practiced, what are the ideological perspectives for the selection of the practices and what cost-benefit effect they carry to the field as a scientific praxis. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, various dimensions are taken into consideration. At the geographic-locational level,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Geographic Regions
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Nathan C. Anderson; Daniel R. Conn; Kaydra D. Weigel – Assessment Update, 2025
The "A+ Inquiry" Capstone course has been taught at Minot State University every spring and fall term since the fall 2019 semester. Like a thesis, the course requires students to write a proposal paper describing their study, form a committee and propose their study to their committee, obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Masters Theses, Inquiry
Natasha Bourgoin – ProQuest LLC, 2026
University students with increased rates of reported perfectionism, anxiety, and depression, are vulnerable to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). However, not all students with psychological distress engage in NSSI, suggesting protective factors may help to mitigate this risk. The present study examined the relation between perfectionism and NSSI,…
Descriptors: College Students, Anxiety, Self Destructive Behavior, Psychopathology
Steven Edalgo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the lived experiences of eleven transfer students as they described their experiences in Calculus 2 at very high research land grant institutions (R1). This qualitative investigation focused on the psychological phenomenon of transition as the transfer students perceived, reflected, made sense, and understood their transition…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, Calculus, Research Universities
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LaShica Davis Waters; Michelle Bartlett – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
This qualitative narrative inquiry study explores lived experiences of seven working adult part-time online students, mostly community college transfers, in a Research 1 institution's online degree-completion program. Using in-depth interviews, four key themes are identified: access, engagement, inclusion, and university pride in students'…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Part Time Students, Adults, Distance Education
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Katia Bill Nielsen; Lene Møller Madsen – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
This paper explores how the culture within a Danish university study programme affects students' aspirations of becoming a high school chemistry teacher. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews to describe and analyse the culture of the programme. In the analysis we foreground the case of two students to understand their…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Self Concept, Research Universities
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Hamann, Julian; Ringel, Leopold – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
If there is one thing all university rankings have in common, it is that they are the target of widespread criticism. This article takes the many challenges university rankings are facing as its point of departure and asks how they navigate their hostile environment. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we unveil two modes of ranking…
Descriptors: Universities, Achievement Rating, Criticism, Responses
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Kirsten Dean; Julia Feerrar; Katlyn Griffin; Kelsey Hammer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this chapter, a team of academic librarians offers strategies to address four common challenges instructors face when incorporating digital literacy into their courses.
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Digital Literacy, Partnerships in Education, Academic Libraries
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Xi Yang; Tingsong Li – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Research excellence is one of the key missions of universities and an important engine for socio-economic development. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 has affected academic research in many ways. This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the research performance of science and engineering faculty members in China's top research…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ian M. Kinchin; Suzie Pugh – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This paper considers the process of "professional becoming" for an academic developer as a complex transition towards epistemological plurality. This is a necessary step to appreciate and support the lived experiences of teachers across the spectrum of academic disciplines. Viewed through an ecological lens, the complexity of the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Universities, Faculty Development
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Águeda Ortega; Katherine Jensen; Javier Auyero – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Despite being intensely sociable, ethnographic research is also deeply isolating. Although fieldworkers may feel lonely, we contend that they are not (or should not be) alone. At the 10th anniversary of Urban Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, we reflect on the ethnographic training cultivated there. We detail objectives,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Sociology, Research Methodology, Research Training
Francis Pastorelle – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the last two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in natural and manmade disasters. While no community is immune to the risks posed by these large-scale emergencies, colleges, and universities, which are home to numerous vulnerable populations, could be counted among those most at risk. In their current state of overall community…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Universities, Emergency Programs
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Marianna Savoca; Kelli K. Smith; Simran Kaur – Assessment Update, 2024
How do we scale student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) on campuses where there is limited supply? Student employment, not an official HIP yet, has potential to fill this gap. This article describes approaches taken by two campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system to transform work-study/student employment into…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Student Employment, Educational Change, Universities
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