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Harris, Michael S.; Hartley, Matthew – Journal of Higher Education, 2011
The literature on organizational culture underscores the benefits of a strong culture--its capacity to draw people together through shared values and norms. Yet, the formation of a powerful ideology also has the capacity to promote divisiveness and to alienate those who fail to conform. This study employs Frank W. Lutz's witch-hunting framework in…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Ideology, Beliefs, Church Related Colleges
Saynes, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The methods of evaluating teacher preparation programs are becoming increasingly more reliant on student test data. These test data driven formats, however, are not appropriate for small colleges. Small colleges are currently left off the Tennessee Report Card on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training Programs because the colleges did not produce…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Small Colleges
Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2019
The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. Begun in 1968 as the College and University Eleven-Thirty Users' Group…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Open Educational Resources
Frankenstein, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem facing many higher education institutions is the ability to engage freshmen students during the first semester of college in order to sustain their enrollment. This study assessed the effectiveness of a freshmen learning community as a retention strategy at a small, rural, and public community college. The purpose of this ex post facto…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Two Year College Students, Communities of Practice
Carey, Amy Bragg – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation was a qualitative research study regarding two small private universities and their process of transformation from an institution headed toward closure to a successful turnaround. The primary questions that guided the study included the factors and persons that contributed to the institutional turnaround, the issues and…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Finance Reform, Qualitative Research
Gill, Avninder – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the knowledge management (KM) challenges faced by the administration of a small university which does not have a mature research culture. Design/methodology/approach: The paper follows both technocratic as well as ecological approaches to develop a sustainable KM. Strengths, weaknesses,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Small Colleges, College Administration, Holistic Approach
Showalter, Rodney J. – College and University, 2009
Beginning in the late 1990s, international corporations began hiring Chief Privacy Officers (CPOs). By 2002, large universities responded to this trend by creating this distinct position or modifying an existing job description to include CPO responsibilities. While not every registrar assumes the role of CPO, increasing practical and legislative…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Higher Education, Occupational Information, Privacy
Gross, Karen; Myrka, Anne – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
In an effort to find a feasible way to provide quality interdisciplinary teaching on a small campus, Southern Vermont College has introduced a program called Roving Professors. The Rovers, a select group of professors, visit multiple classes across the college's five divisions, and each one integrates his or her specialty into each course visited,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork, Teacher Collaboration, Teaching Methods
Sell, Jane; Hysom, Stuart; Lang, Louis; Love, Tony P.; Manago, Bianca; Le, Huong; Spivey, Tiffany – Current Research in Social Psychology, 2011
One of the most vexing issues faced by experimental social psychologists is the creation and subsequent maintenance of a laboratory. Consequently, well-equipped experimental sociology laboratories are most likely to be found in institutions with larger resources and an established history of experimental research. Smaller institutions or those…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Psychologists, Social Science Research, Laboratories
Hales, Karen; Ward, Randall; Brown, Annalaura – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2009
At our small business college, we believe that next to serving the students, the most important thing we as librarians can do is serve as liaisons to the faculty. If the faculty is tuned in to the library, it is more likely he or she will use library resources and will teach students about them. This will provide a more effective education for the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Small Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Outreach Programs
Draper, Matthew R.; Faulkner, Ginger E. – Journal of College Counseling, 2009
This case study examines the dynamics and challenges associated with counseling a client experiencing borderline personality disorder in the small college institutional context. The work of counseling centers at small private institutions has been relatively unexplored in the extant college counseling literature. To help fill this gap, the current…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Personality Problems, Small Colleges, Personality
Isett, Kerry Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Many students spend a significant portion of their college life outside of the classroom, yet very little is known about the learning they experience as a result of their interactions outside of the classroom. Intentional out-of-class educational experiences offer educators a powerful window into not only understanding the college student…
Descriptors: College Students, Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Catholic Schools
Smith, Diane Dani – ProQuest LLC, 2013
College students are at high risk of experiencing serious problems related to physical and social health issues that include binge drinking, sexual assault, and contracting a sexually transmitted disease. Despite research reporting that many of these incidents co-occur on campuses, university prevention programs have failed to present the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Sexuality, Rape, Quasiexperimental Design
Seagraves, Beau; Dean, Laura A. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2010
This qualitative study explored the conditions that support assessment practice and the impact of the accreditation process on assessment practice in student affairs divisions at three small colleges and universities in the southeastern U.S. Findings indicate that the role of the senior student affairs officer directly impacts staff perceptions of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Small Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Student Personnel Services
Benz, Sharon A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed method, single case study describes a university-community partnership between a small, suburban liberal arts college and an inner-city neighborhood located over eight miles away. The ultimate goal of the study was to improve the partnership for community and campus partners. The study does this by focusing on partnership members'…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Small Colleges, Suburban Schools