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Direct linkSzpunar, Ruth; Bradley, Eric – College & Research Libraries, 2023
From 2016 to 2020, ten smaller schools in one regional library consortium participated in a user needs assessment project. This article documents the process for implementing a collaborative user needs assessment by utilizing the shared interest and enthusiasm of a team of librarians to create a consortial toolkit. The toolkit supplied direction…
Descriptors: User Needs (Information), Needs Assessment, Consortia, Ethnography
Dana Adrienne Knott – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Through a critical phenomenological approach, this study captured the lived experiences of directors in the Ohio Private Academic Libraries (OPAL) consortium and their responses to dual pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of racism. Individual qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten OPAL directors to examine…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Library Administration, Pandemics, COVID-19
Campbell, Kellie B. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examined how Chief Information Officers (CIOs), also known as Information Technology leaders, understand the use of technology as a strategy for reducing academic costs in small, private, liberal arts colleges in New England. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight CIOs throughout small, private, liberal arts colleges in…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education
Download full textHetrick, Barbara; Marcum, Deanna – Council of Independent Colleges, 2019
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction was launched in 2014 with a series of specific questions about the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of online teaching and learning. As this report documents, many but not all of the questions were answered during the course of the project. Students and…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Online Courses, Program Effectiveness, College Faculty
Welch, Edwin H. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2017
Smaller, private, independent institutions of higher education across the United States are facing challenging times. This white paper by Edwin H. Welch, president of the University of Charleston, shares lessons gleaned from the institution's innovative efforts over almost 30 years. Welch's hope is that the experiences at the University of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Private Colleges, Small Colleges
Dostal Dauer, Kevin Lorenz – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Parental involvement in higher education has received much attention since the 1990s, though mostly through mainstream media sources. The term "helicopter parents" is now used to describe over-involved parents who "hover" over their children, intent on ensuring that their children's needs are addressed. The perception within…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Study Abroad, Parenting Styles, Undergraduate Students
