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Dubois, Nicole; Beauvois, Jean-Leon – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Explores the extent that intergroup attributions may be affected by the mobilization of an academic status that explicitly positions students within a school hierarchy. Calculates internality scores for students categorized as good versus bad based on a questionnaire of attributions. Explains the results within the frame of two theoretical fields.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Educational Psychology, Group Behavior, Higher Education
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Menges, Robert J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
In award programs designed to honor exemplary college teaching, common problems include selection procedures and criteria, bias toward popularity, competition versus collaboration, questionable incentives, and use of special awards to replace continuing rewards. An effective teaching awards program will pass three tests of selection validity,…
Descriptors: Awards, College Instruction, Competition, Evaluation Criteria
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Mixon, Stephanie Litizzette; Lyon, Larry; Beaty, Michael – Journal of Higher Education, 2004
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported on a conference of scholars and senior administrators at Harvard discussing "The Future of Religious Colleges" (McMurtrie, 2000). The irony of the meeting's venue is readily apparent. Having been founded by Puritan Christians in 1636 and soon given the motto, Christo et Ecclesiae, the beginning…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational Quality, Church Related Colleges, Religion
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Cushman, Thomas – Academic Questions, 2003
There has been much high-blown rhetoric lately about the problem of grade inflation in American higher education. All across American campuses, deans and college presidents lament the problem. Such attention, though, focuses mostly on outlining the extent of the problem rather than offering concrete strategies for alleviating it. In most cases,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Faculty Workload
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Flores, Lisa Y.; O'Brien, Karen M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
This study tested R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett's (1994) model of career choice with 364 Mexican American adolescent women. Path analyses were run to determine the influence of contextual and social cognitive variables on career aspiration, career choice prestige, and traditionality. Partial support for the model was evidenced as…
Descriptors: Reputation, Females, Career Choice, Acculturation
de Guzman, Allan B. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2003
This paper explains the current reforms in basic and higher education in the Philippines. Specifically, internal and external enablers in the educational environment were reviewed as justifications of the reforms both at the national level as well at the individual teacher. The reforms were treated in the light of four perspectives in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Environment, Educational Change
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Sexton, Ellen – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2006
Citation analyses were carried out on master's theses in three disciplines: forensic psychology, forensic science, and criminal justice, completed and deposited in the John Jay College Library from 1991 to 2004. The aim was to determine the effect of availability of electronic journals on students' choice of references. The number of journal…
Descriptors: Commuter Colleges, Urban Schools, Masters Theses, Graduate Students
Vedder, Richard – Center for College Affordability and Productivity (NJ1), 2007
The prevailing view among leaders in the university community is that America is not investing enough in higher education. A recent survey of the American economy by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) echoed that concern. After all, college graduates are dramatically more productive than those without higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition, Educational Finance
Wilbur, Susan – 1988
An image assessment study was conducted by a young, rapidly growing, public university to provide accurate and timely direction for student recruitment and communications activities. The study consisted of opinion and attitude surveys mailed to 4,500 current students and 22,000 alumni. The survey explored student and alumni satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Planning, College Students, Higher Education
Hengst, Herbert R. – 1984
Elements of educational quality and ways in which quality is estimated are identified, with specific attention to conditions that are prerequisite to achieving high levels of quality in universities. The quality of a university may be estimated by examining prestigous institutions based on reputational studies, by quantitative descriptions of…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Departments, Educational Objectives
Bjork, Lars G. – 1984
Structural reorganization was investigated as one factor associated with the development of the University of New Mexico from an undergraduate teaching institution toward becoming of a nationally-ranked graduate research university. A longitudinal, ethnohistorical study was undertaken for the 1967-1978 period. The qualitative research methodology…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Role, Higher Education
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Blau, Peter M.; Margulies, Rebbeca Zames – Change, 1974
A compilation of America's best professional schools based on data from a survey of deans in the field. (PG)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Strickland, Wayne G. – 1979
The application and impact of marketing techniques in higher education are considered, based primarily on a literature review. Literature concerning marketing in higher education, primarily in the 1970s, focused on three major themes: discussions concerning the general need to adopt marketing techniques, marketing as part of the recruitment…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, College Planning, Higher Education
Desruisseaux, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
The Hazen Foundation screens proposals, scouts projects in all parts of the country and annually funds three dozen programs and organizations. The foundation's overriding and continuing concern has been American youth and the environment and values that guide the development of young people. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Educational Finance, Fellowships
Farrell, Charles S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Wilford S. Bailey of Auburn University is heading the National Collegiate Athletic Association as it struggles to cope with several controversial issues: testing athletes for drug abuse, new academic standards for freshman athletes, the role of college presidents in governing sports, and the integrity of college athletics. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Athletes, Business, Change
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