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Direct linkJonathan Hampton – ProQuest LLC, 2017
How do students at elite universities think about the economic and educational returns of their college education? Drawing on 29 interviews from first-year students at an elite university, I find that students think that attending an elite university will allow them to secure a high degree of social status, which they believe is integral to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Value Judgment, Competitive Selection
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Download full textGoree, 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
Zhai, Keyu; Gao, Xing; Wang, Geng – SAGE Open, 2019
Under the third wave of international student mobility, Australia has become the third largest country receiving international students. Compared with the United States and the United Kingdom, Australia can still maintain a stable increase in terms of hosting Chinese students. For Australia, attracting international students becomes an important…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Motivation, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Binder, Amy J.; Abel, Andrea R. – Sociology of Education, 2019
The study of elites is enjoying a revival at a time of increasing economic inequality. Sociologists of education have been leaders in this area, researching how affluent families position their children to compete favorably in a highly stratified higher education system. However, scholars have done less research on how students do symbolic work of…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Students, Social Status
Casablancas-Segura, Carme; Llonch, Joan; Alarcón-del-Amo, María-del-Carmen – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to extend existing research on stakeholder orientation (SO) on higher education institutions (HEIs) by segmenting Spanish public universities based on their perceived levels of SO and describing the profiles of the different segments identified. Given that being stakeholder-oriented, as well as being…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries
Shivley, Jacob M. – Transformation in Higher Education, 2019
Background: When practitioners of veterinary medicine enter academia as faculty or clinical instructors, they are asked to perform research, provide service and outreach, and educate students, yet the teaching component is a struggle for many. It has been posited that academic clinicians develop a teaching style similar to those they observed…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Land Grant Universities, Veterinary Medical Education, College Faculty
Hasking, Penelope A.; Lewis, Stephen P.; Robinson, Kealagh; Heath, Nancy L.; Wilson, Marc S. – School Psychology International, 2019
Research on nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has grown significantly over the last 15 years, with much of this work focused on factors that initiate and maintain NSSI among school-aged youth. Although this work is important, it does raise several ethical concerns. In this article we outline key ethical issues underlying NSSI research in schools and…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Ethics, Recruitment, Disclosure
Marcel, Mary; Ross Mahon, Nancy – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
Business communication programs and business school competitions are a prevalent component of graduate-level business education. Both activities help students develop problem-solving skills, critical thinking, high-level communication, and applied experiential learning. While business competitions may aid in the development of advanced…
Descriptors: Competition, Reputation, Business Communication, Business Schools
Dill, David D. – Higher Education Forum, 2018
The expansion of opportunity in higher education and the recognition of the influence of academic research on economic development have motivated policy reforms in many national systems of higher education including Japan. Many of these national reforms involve facilitating market forces in higher education, which is a new context for many…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Marini, Giulio – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Individual experiences in dealing with individual evaluations are studied through a national documental analysis and qualitative interviews. The analysis considers three main individual assessments designed to measure individual credentials or performance: "sexenio" (research and third mission), "quinquenio" (teaching) and…
Descriptors: Reputation, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Hillman, Thomas; Selwyn, Neil – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Social media are now an important aspect of the professional lives of school teachers. This paper explores the growing use of mass 'teacher groups' and 'teacher communities' on social media platforms such as Facebook. While these online communities are often welcomed as a means of professional learning and support, the paper considers the extent…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Social Media
Influential Factors in the College Decision-Making Process for Chinese Students Studying in the U.S.
Rafi, Madeline A. – Journal of International Students, 2018
For more than 1,043,839 international students, the United States is the destination of choice to pursue higher education. Although Chinese students account for almost one in three international students in the U.S., there are many unknowns about the influential factors behind their college decision. This qualitative study explores the…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, Asians, College Choice
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, 2018
The 2018 Thought Leaders report focuses on "The Landscape, Framework, and Strategies for Managing & Mitigating Risk." The report looks at enterprise risk management (ERM) from both a campus-wide perspective as well as how risks affect the facilities organization in its support of the institution. In assessing all types of risks to…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Campuses, Facilities Management, Higher Education
Walsh, Joseph A. – American Biology Teacher, 2014
A look back at some famous discoveries in biology highlights the competitive nature of science, the trophy being priority by publication.
Descriptors: Biology, Competition, Discovery Processes, Publications
Harzing, Anne-Wil – Journal of Management Education, 2016
This brief commentary investigates whether article topic, author profile, or journal rank significantly influence an article's citation levels. Anne-Wil Harzing's regression analysis shows that, when all factors are taken into account at the same time, it is "what" is published (topic) and "who" has published it (author) that…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Theories, Educational Research, Classification
