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Shelly Spaulding – ProQuest LLC, 2023
To determine the impact that school leaders have on school culture and teacher retention, a sequential explanatory mixed methods approach was used to study schools in a district feeder pattern in in a large, suburban district in Texas with a student population of approximately 25,000. In Phase 1, teachers at one elementary, one middle, and one…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Culture, Teacher Persistence, Principals
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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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Welborn, Cliff; Bullington, Kimball; Abston, Kristie – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
This study sought to utilize Six Sigma techniques to guide the design and selection of promotional materials and strategies to attract college students to an undergraduate Supply Chain Management major. Affinity Diagramming was used to collect and summarize students' comments on what factors they considered when selecting a career. Pareto was used…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Undergraduate Students, Supply and Demand, Business Administration Education
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Robert, Catherine – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2022
Teachers who are married to other teachers within a school district often experience their personal life events in full view of the school community. How should a principal respond when a math teacher wants to leave due to her divorce, knowing that math teachers are hard to find? Challenges in this case for campus principals and human resource…
Descriptors: Principals, Mathematics Teachers, Divorce, Teacher Orientation
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Porritt, Vivienne; Stagg, Fee – Management in Education, 2022
There is growing acceptance that governing boards in English schools and academies should be diverse. Yet progress towards this strategic aim remains slow despite initiatives to address this. We ask whether boards represent their communities and whether they model diverse and ethical leadership as seen in the culture and values of a school or…
Descriptors: Governance, Ethics, Diversity, Leadership
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Henningsson, Malin; Geschwind, Lars – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
Recently, a number of inbreeding cases have surfaced that have fuelled public criticism of recruitment practices and the lack of mobility in the Swedish higher education sector. This study focuses on recruitment practices at Swedish universities, particularly the divergence between what seems to be a practice of hiring internal candidates and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, College Faculty, Alumni
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Wehlburg, Catherine M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
As the overall demographics are changing in post-secondary education, the importance of attracting and retaining transfer students into 4-year institutions is becoming more and more important. This is, however, a challenging shift for many institutions. Becoming a "transfer friendly" institution requires a multi-faceted approach that…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Institutional Characteristics, Student Mobility, Student Recruitment
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Lareau, Annette; Rao, Aliya Hamid – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
There is a dearth of methodological guidance on how to conduct participant observation in private spaces such as family homes. Yet, participant observations can provide deep and valuable data about family processes. This article draws on two ethnographic studies of family life in which researchers conduct in-depth interviews, recruit families, and…
Descriptors: Family Life, Observation, Ethnography, Research Methodology
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Beck, Dennis; French, Seth D.; Allred, Johnny B.; Goering, Christian Z. – Cogent Education, 2022
Virtual schooling in America is a complex notion, one riddled with simultaneous claims of provenance coupled with poor achievement results when compared to other forms of schooling. Recruitment practices for virtual schools, specifically available television-length advertisements from a national list of fully online schools, comprised a data set…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Content Analysis, Television, Advertising
Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of these remain in the US after graduating and contribute to the high skilled labor supply in US labor markets. In this paper, we identify and estimate by how much one more international master's (or bachelor's) student increases the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Labor Force, Job Skills
Region 8 Comprehensive Center, 2022
The Region 8 Comprehensive Center collaborated with the Indiana Department of Education to evaluate the obstacles many districts face in the teacher hiring process. The brief further discusses the importance of hiring timelines, benefits and barriers of early hiring, and recommendations and strategies for revising hiring timelines.
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, School Districts, Personnel Selection, Time
Zid Mancenido – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In Paper #1, I investigate the career exploration processes of 96 recent graduates of elite higher education institutions with varying levels of interest and commitment to teaching. My aim is to understand how intrinsic motivations to teach (positive) and extrinsic concerns about teaching (negative) are developed and interact such that some…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Education, Career Choice
Julia Vallee Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree to which human resources documents which focus on recruiting, hiring, and onboarding include information about teacher traits that influence positive relationships with students. When the teacher-student relationship is positive, students improve their behaviors, work diligently to meet their…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Selection, Teacher Recruitment
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Adams, Amy M. – College and University, 2021
Historically, community college enrollment is impacted by the economy--the better the economy, the less students seek a community college education. The enrollment at Marion Technical College (MTC) in Florida generally has followed this trend. Prior to COVID-19, the economy in the United States was seeing unprecedented growth and, thus, MTC's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, Marketing
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Ashfaq, Fouzia; Butt, Mattiullah; Ilyas, Sehrish – Qualitative Research Journal, 2021
Purpose: Drawing on expectancy theory, this research explores how and when volunteers' motivational drives for volunteering relate to organizational policies and practices. The paper analyses four areas of motivational association -- affiliation, beliefs, career development and egoistic motives -- together with organizational human resource (HR)…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Motivation, Policy, Recruitment
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