This study examines the relationships between students' mindset and performance on an accounting exam and their desire to work for Big-Four accounting firms. Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that students with a growth mindset perform better on an exam relative to those with a fixed mindset. Further, students with a growth mindset placed…

The purpose of this problem of practice was to explore the experiences of athletic administration professionals who work with African American student-athletes. Reviewing sport through a critical lens leads us to see that sport is still operating behind an inconspicuous veil of artificial accounts, colorblind racism, and statistics of progress…

A single case study was used to examine internships at an (AACSB) accredited business school located at a Research 1 university in the southeastern United States. Internships are the dominant form of experiential learning used within the college under study and the "preferred method of business schools worldwide to give students practical…

This qualitative phenomenological study explored the influence of mentoring on the acquisition of transformational leadership skills by effective Title I elementary principals. Five research questions guided the inquiry of the study to determine whether or not mentoring had an influence on the acquisition of transformational leadership skills. The…

More than half of information technology (IT) outsourced projects fail, primarily due to a lack of effective management practices surrounding the outsourcing end-to-end process. Ineffective management of the IT outsourcing (ITO) process affects organizations in the form of higher than expected project costs, including greater vendor switching or…

College presidential transitions are inevitable. A successful transition, as measured by: (1) an effective and orderly transfer of executive authority and influence between the outgoing and incoming chief executives, along with; (2) the continued advancement of the college, can never be guaranteed. Conceiving, developing, and managing a deliberate…

Institutions of higher education have responded to the current political landscape, changing demographics, and student activism around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by creating organizational structures and positions to coordinate DEI initiatives. The Academic Diversity Officer (ADO) position reports to an academic unit and coordinates a…

Administrators are under the intense pressures of accountability to meet expectations in both student achievement and school improvement. To survive the intensity, administrators must exercise data informed leadership of which the epicenter is effective data use. This descriptive study was designed to examine the perceptions of administrators'…

Asking questions about your data is a constant application of all business organizations. To facilitate decision making and improve business performance, a business intelligence application must be an integral part of everyday management practices. Microsoft Excel added PowerPivot and PowerPivot officially to facilitate this process with minimum…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the existing mechanism of school management committees (SMCs) and to propose an improved framework for strengthening its process and outcomes. In 2005, the Education and Literacy department, Government of Sindh decentralizes the administrative and operational authorities to school level in the form…

This study explores the implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in Master of Education Management Programs in two Azerbaijani universities. The aim was to find out if the sample universities integrate projects into their programs using a systematic PBL model. Interviews with the faculty and administration were conducted and the curricula of…

In times of pandemic-related university shutdowns and a shift of teaching to homeschooling, alternative educational methods are more in demand than ever. The class peer-review (CPR) method offers the opportunity for students to evaluate each other and share knowledge during their private learning time. This study reports on a CPR which was…

In this paper, we investigate the factors that affect burnout of faculty, which we refer to as "academic fatigue", in the context of the business professors in the highly competitive and globalized market of the United Arab Emirates, which, unlike the United States, does not offer tenure to professors. It is the first paper to addresses…

The objective of this research is to investigate the views of physical education teachers on the management approaches of the school principals. The research was conducted using the phenomenological design, which is used in the qualitative research methods. The respondents for the study group in the research comprised 17 physical education…

China has provided the world with a new distinctive higher education financing model that emerged out of its unique socio-political conditions. This article investigates the fluctuation of revenue sources during the process of China's higher education massification. Based on abundant data from Chinese official yearbooks and an extensive analysis…