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Xintong Lu; Robert Smith – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Distributed leadership has become one of the most popular and important leadership models in the West, particularly in the field of education. However, both theoretical and empirical research into distributed leadership in the Chinese Higher Education context is rare. This dearth of literature on the subject has motivated the authors to carry out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Higher Education, Departments
Wakgari Tasisa Duressa; Befekadu Zeleke Kidane – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Literacy abilities are crucial for economic progress and community welfare, with higher education recognizing them as vital for problem-solving, critical thinking, continuous learning, and effective functioning for both experienced educators and the new student cohorts. The study examined the interplay between organizational learning and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Research Universities, Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning
Amanda Blakewood Pascale; Amanda M. Kulp; Lisa Wolf-Wendel – Review of Higher Education, 2024
This study explores an understudied yet critically important role in higher education: the academic department chair. Building on research related to the gendered organization of faculty life and using a national sample of department leaders per the COACHE "Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey" (n = 1,173), we use descriptive discriminant…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Job Satisfaction, Gender Differences, College Faculty
Henri Santos; Caitlin Anzelone; Erica Gonzales; Hyun Deog Seo – MDRC, 2024
One major challenge that institutions face when launching transformation efforts is that they operate in "silos," meaning that they have separate departments--for example, student services, financial aid, and advising--that operate independently with little communication or coordination. Many successful transformation efforts include a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork
Andy J. Peterson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a lack of information regarding strategic planning within athletic departments at the NCAA Division II level. A survey of all 306 NCAA DII athletic directors was implemented in an attempt to provide up-to-date data. The investigation focused on the prevalence of strategic plans within athletic departments at the NCAA DII level and a…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, College Athletics, Athletic Coaches, Administrators
Laura G. Ross; Jill O. Lane – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
This study measures the perceptions of departmental culture from both the adjunct faculty and departmental administrator perspectives. The preparation for this study included the development of a validated survey designed to collect mirrored perception data from both groups. Multiple factors in higher education have led to an overreliance on…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Mahmud, Amir; Nuryatin, Agus; Susilowati, Nurdian – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2022
This study aimed to identify the income-generating activities and explore its management model using the case study method. In-depth interviews and documentation were used to collect data. The sample used purposive sampling from 26 study programs. Government subsidy, which is meant to cater to tuition and operational expenses, has been inadequate.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Creaton, Jane; Heard-Lauréote, Karen – Higher Education Policy, 2021
There is a dissonance between the formal role of head of academic department represented in institutional discourses and the reality of heads' working practices. This paper provides insight, from the perspective of heads, about how the role is experienced and enacted in one institution. Data are derived from 20 semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Departments, Middle Management
Chun, Hyunsik; Sauder, Michael – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
As rankings have become increasingly institutionalized in higher education, so too have the strategic responses adopted by universities to address them. A key component of these responses is the development of new expertise, embodied in personnel and organizational units, dedicated to managing quantitative assessments. We draw on a qualitative…
Descriptors: Universities, Achievement Rating, Foreign Countries, Expertise
Rice, Mary F.; Bailon, Mark – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, schools had been adopting digital instruction in many parts of the world. The concept of digital literacies has also been evolving in complexity alongside the digital technologies that support it. However, little is known about what guidance available to support various levels of government in supporting digital…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Guidance, Digital Literacy, State Departments of Education
Fedoua Mansouri; Hafida Hamzaoui – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
The present study investigated enhancing undergraduates' epistemological beliefs by integrating epistemological insights into a regular university course using an immersion framework. It was conducted with second-year students in the Department of English Language and Cultures in an Algerian university. The 48-student group received a two-semester…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Beliefs, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Schwartz, Heather L.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Wolfe, Rebecca L.; Khodyakov, Dmitry; Dao, Emily; Domenech-Burgos, Dianne; Domina, Jeffrey C.; Mundra, Rajesh R. – RAND Corporation, 2023
To update its teaching and departmental review processes, Phillips Academy Andover, an independent boarding school in Massachusetts, commissioned RAND Corporation researchers to review the school's policies, conduct a literature review, interview other independent high schools, develop potential recommendations for revision of Andover's processes,…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Program Evaluation, School Policy, High Schools
Spence, Esmin Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Effective leadership is crucial for organizations to remain competitive in this expanding higher education environment as they lead their followers, especially those in their academic units or departments. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the understanding of academic department chairs of U.S. colleges and…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Department Heads, Administrator Attitudes, Motivation
Gee, Nick; Parrish, Abigail; Puttick, Steven – Teacher Development, 2023
Subject departments are an increasingly important unit of analysis for research on schools and beginning teachers' experiences. By analysing a practice-based typology of eight departmental types through an exploratory factor analysis of questionnaires completed by beginning teachers (n = 55), the authors refined the typology to four (hierarchical;…
Descriptors: Classification, Departments, Secondary Schools, Intellectual Disciplines
Audrey Evelyn Ayers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Conflict is inevitable in every part of life and institutions of higher education are not immune to experiencing interpersonal conflict. Department chairs hold a key position between upper administration and the rest of the faculty and staff within the department, all while still teaching classes. The purpose of this research study is to explore…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Conflict, Interpersonal Relationship, Universities