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Shin, Yunchul; Lee, Sujin – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
What good is charitable giving for the giver? While previous research has examined ways of increasing charitable donations of money and their associated emotional benefits, extant studies have overlooked the cognitive consequences of giving for the giver. The present research examines the causal relationship between charitable donation of money…
Descriptors: Donors, Private Financial Support, Creativity, Correlation
Thomas Downes Ed.; Kieran M. Killeen Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
Faced with the problem of how to measure the magnitude of economic disadvantage in the populations served by schools or districts, researchers addressing school finance topics have invariably turned to the fraction of students eligible for free- or reduced-lunches (FRPL). But the facile dependence on FRPL may be problematic. A large and growing…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Measurement Techniques, Lunch Programs
Brittany Causey Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored foundation giving in the field of higher education philanthropy in Texas. Utilizing Fligstein and McAdam's conceptual framework, I found that a field-level analysis at the state level uncovered distinct profiles or groups of foundations hidden in the observed data over time. Texas was an interesting case because of its legal…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Higher Education, Profiles, Fund Raising
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Ahmed Ali Alhazmi; Rasha Ahmed Almashhour – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This qualitative study explored how neoliberalism contributes to the fragmentation of organizational identity in Saudi universities and the implications of this fragmentation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 faculty members from a Saudi public university. Thematic analysis revealed that neoliberal policies relating to governance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Public Colleges, Neoliberalism
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Luke T. Russell; Chang Su-Russell – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To evaluate how family functioning, family contributions to college expenses, and access to mentors are associated with college student's self-reported health and flourishing, and to test for moderation by family structure. Participants: Undergraduate college students (N = 238) recruited through an email list-serve at a large midwestern…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Paying for College, Educational Finance, Mentors
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Kelly Farquharson; K. Brooke Ott; Anne C. Reed – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: Dyslexia, a neurobiological phonological processing deficit, can be identified early; however, there is a substantial variation between and within states regarding who makes this diagnosis and when. Dyslexia evaluations are often challenging to obtain and very expensive for families who need to seek them outside of the school setting. The…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Clinical Diagnosis, Educational Diagnosis, Allied Health Personnel
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A. Alexander Beaujean; Ryan J. McGill; Stefan C. Dombrowski – Contemporary School Psychology, 2024
School psychology contributes to the science of human behavior and utilizes this science to inform an evidence-based practice. The usefulness of this science is dependent on scientists making good faith efforts to minimize bias in their research. Nonetheless, implicit biases can still influence scientists' decisions and, hence, the outcomes of…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Conflict of Interest, Financial Support, Ethics
Hani Morgan – Online Submission, 2024
Industry-funded research can prevent academic freedom from thriving at universities. It can also lead to misleading research that harms consumers. This book chapter focuses on how corporations sometimes use methods that contribute to the corruption of science and includes descriptions of several cases that occurred at universities. Some of the…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, Corporations, Deception
Cynthia F. Broderick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Titled professorships have existed within higher education since the creation of the first endowed professorship at Harvard College in 1721. Yet, only in the last one hundred years have titled professorships become a regular part of higher education nomenclature on a national scale. Neither the total number of titled professorships nor the total…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, State Universities, College Faculty, Educational History
Commonfund Institute, 2024
The NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments (NCSE) for fiscal year 2023 marks the 50th consecutive year that NACUBO has published a Study of the endowments of institutions of higher learning. It would not be an overstatement to say that the Study chronicled five decades of unparalleled change. The investment industry and endowment management have…
Descriptors: Endowment Funds, Money Management, Educational Finance, Fund Raising
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Abigail Fuesler; Andrew J. Bobilya; Brad Daniel; Will Hobbs – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2025
The outdoor industry is growing in the U.S., and its economic impact has been well documented. One pathway toward employment in the outdoor industry has been undergraduate training in an outdoor academic program (OAP). Undergraduate OAPs require significant financial support, access to outdoor spaces, and specialized faculty training.…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Undergraduate Students, Specialists, Employment
Shulman, James L. – Princeton University Press, 2023
US colleges and universities have long been the envy of the world. Institutional autonomy has fostered creativity among faculty, students, and staff. But this autonomy means that colleges tend to create their own solutions for every need. As a result, higher education suffers from costly redundancies that drive tuitions ever upward, putting higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Money Management, Financial Support
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Rentocchini, Francesco; Rizzo, Ugo – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study analyses the effect of a change of focus in a traditional mission (teaching) of higher education institutions (HEIs) on the variety and intensity of knowledge exchange (KE) activities. In doing so, it bridges two partially disconnected streams of the literature in science and innovation focusing on HEI missions and heterogeneity in HEI…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Competition
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Sonesson, Anders; Stenson, Lena; Edgren, Gudrun – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
Several authors have described how the formalization of recent decades has steered doctoral education towards structured curricula, more managerial control and new models for supervision. Largely absent from these accounts, however, is if and how doctoral education has been affected by the concurrent changes in research governance, in particular…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Student Research, Competition, Medical Research
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Wint, Natalie; Nyamapfene, Abel – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
This work adopts a case study approach to examine the emergence of engineering education research (EER) within the UK. First, a summary of the contextual factors influencing UK EER activity are presented. This section includes information pertaining to higher education (HE) policy, networks, and funding. Semi structured interviews are used to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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