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Camille Kandiko Howson; Martyn Kingsbury – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Institution-wide curriculum change is a costly, time-intensive and politically fraught undertaking. It is a challenge identifying who has responsibility for the curriculum and who is empowered to change it. The unbundling of the traditional tri-partite academic role of teaching, research and service leaves a gap of who in those communities decides…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Holistic Approach
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Kripa Freitas; Jennifer Murdock – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
Among existing infrastructures to disseminate innovative teaching methods and to build collaborative networks, the authors situate a community of practice (CoP). They explain what a CoP is and compare it with teaching-focused economics journals and conferences, and other infrastructures such as institutional teaching centers. Since 2016, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
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Leslie D. Gonzales; Naseeb K. Bhangal; Chastity Stokes; Jesenia Rosales – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Faculty members are entrusted with great power to decide who deserves space within the academic profession. Given that the profession's central mission is knowledge production, such decisions inevitably concern epistemic matters, and specifically, what constitutes legitimate knowledge. From this perspective, faculty hiring is not only a matter of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Selection, Decision Making, Epistemology
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Stephen B. DeLoach; Steven A. Greenlaw – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
The "Issues in Political Economy" (IPE) journal and related conference sessions were established in the early 1990s as outlets for undergraduates to present and publish peer-reviewed research in economics. By providing opportunities to attend and present at professional conferences, referee papers, and edit journal issues, IPE reflects…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Sustainability, Political Attitudes
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David Meech Mazumdar – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This paper provides a small-scale exploration of the evolvement of leadership roles in higher education academic units (AUs), namely Departments, Schools & Faculties. A literature review provides theoretical examples of the evolution of professional services (PS) staff. Changes in PS leadership roles are also explored alongside the emergence…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Instructional Leadership, Universities, Higher Education
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Xinqu Zhang; Peng Wang – Research Ethics, 2025
Unethical research practices are prevalent in China, but little research has focused on the causes of these practices. Drawing on the criminology literature on organisational deviance, as well as the concept of "cengceng jiama," which illustrates the increase of pressure in the process of policy implementation within a top-down…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Ethics, Productivity, Universities
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Anna McDougall; Douglas McKee; George Orlov – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
While the field of economics lacks diversity, there is little consensus on the underlying causes of or most effective solutions to this problem. The authors of this article combine data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) with data from their own survey of U.S. economics departments to identify institution and…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Economics Education, Departments, Undergraduate Students
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Tan Leng Goh; Lynda B. Ransdell – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2025
College leadership in the 21st century is incredibly difficult, and leadership in Kinesiology can be rather complex in some departments. Mentoring is an important part of success in any leadership role, and individuals who receive mentoring typically outperform those who do not receive it. The National Association of Kinesiology in Higher…
Descriptors: Kinesiology, Leadership Training, Mentors, Institutional Cooperation
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Kylie Lipscombe; Sharon Tindall-Ford; Christine Grice; John De Nobile; Janelle Davidson – International Journal of Educational Management, 2025
Purpose: While current research is reporting on a crisis in school leadership aspirations and appointments, this research sheds light on the mediating factors that school middle leaders (MLs) attribute to their appointment as a leader and their aspirations to senior leadership positions. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative data from a larger,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Management, Leadership Role, School Administration
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Elina I. Mäkinen; Eliza D. Evans; Daniel A. McFarland – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
While interdisciplinarity has been promoted in universities for decades, research suggests that untenured faculty struggle to receive recognition for their interdisciplinary research. Informed by the microfoundations of institutional theory and discursive legitimation, we examine how members of academic departments participate in the legitimation…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion
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Natalia Maloshonok; Saule Bekova – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Doctoral programmes worldwide are facing numerous challenges. Among these challenges is the diversification of the student body in aspects such as age, socioeconomic background, motivation, and career aspirations. However, these programmes often struggle to respond adequately and promptly to these changes. In this article, we employ the concept of…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Departments, Educational Environment
US Department of Education, 2025
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), establishes requirements for State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) to prepare and disseminate report cards that provide information on State, LEA, and school performance and progress in an understandable…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Report Cards
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Tara Gossman – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Delve into the transformative journey of teachers and administrators from a rural school district as they bring "Principles to Actions" to life. Pawnee City Public Schools believes effective teaching affects student learning and implemented a successful district-wide plan to improve student learning through the eight Mathematics Teaching…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Rural Areas, State Departments of Education