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A Resource Guide for Reforming Developmental Education in the College Transition Space
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Kim, Jeanette; Simon, Mia; Horenstein, Aaron; Webber, Althea J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest urban public university system in the United States with approximately 100,000 students enrolled in associate degree programs. Similar to trends nationwide, many associate degree students come to CUNY underprepared for college-level classes and are assigned to take remedial or developmental…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Developmental Studies Programs, Urban Universities
Impact of School Sense of Community within a Faith-Based University: Administrative and Academic Staff Perceptions on Institutional Mission and Values
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Ferrari, Joseph R.; Cowman, Shaun E.; Milner, Lauren A.; Gutierrez, Robert E.; Drake, Peter A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2009
Academic staff (n = 305) and administrative staff (n = 595) at a large urban, Catholic, and religious order teaching university completed on-line school sense of community, social desirability, and mission-identity plus mission-driven activity measures. Partial correlates (controlling for social desirability) indicated that for both faculty and…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Institutional Mission, Catholics, Urban Universities
Fostering Minority Access and Achievement in Higher Education: The Role of Urban Community Colleges and Universities.
Bender, Louis W.; Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1987
Two overlapping nationwide studies, one funded by the Ford Foundation and the other by the U.S. Department of Education, provide information covering policies, procedures, and practices that enhance or impede the academic success of minority students in universities and community colleges. Topics include understanding the problem of minority…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Community Colleges, Educational Discrimination
Learning Communities: An Instructional Team Approach.
Evenbeck, Scott; Williams, Gayle – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1998
The freshman seminar at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis is taught by a team that includes faculty, an academic advisor, librarians, and student mentors and is often linked to a disciplinary course. Faculty serve as instructors in the linked course, and student mentors lead supplemental instruction groups. Challenges…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Instruction
To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development, 1995.
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Neal, Ed, Ed.; Richlin, Laurie, Ed. – 1995
This annual journal issue contains 17 papers on issues of faculty development, instructional improvement, faculty collaboration and collegiability, students, and educational practices in higher education. Many of the papers were developed for the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking
PSCcuny Agreement between the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY and the City University of New York. September 1, 1987-August 31, 1990.
Professional Staff Congress of the City Univ. of New York, NY. – 1988
This document presents the agreement between the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York (PSCCUNY) which represents the interests of the CUNY faculty. The agreement, covering the period September 1, 1987 through August 31, 1990, details the following 42 articles: recognition;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty