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Giuseppina Lo Moro; Michele Corezzi; Fabrizio Bert; Alessia Buda; Maria Rosaria Gualano; Roberta Siliquini – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: This study is aimed to explore severe mental illness (SMI), mental well-being (MWB), and Mediterranean Diet adherence (MedDiet) among university students. Participants: University students in Northern Italy (sample size = 502) Methods: Cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2019. The questionnaires included Warwick-Edinburgh Mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Well Being
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Martini, Mara; De Piccoli, Norma – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Interventions addressing the endemic of sexual violence at European universities are scarce, particularly those that take a bystander focus to sexual violence prevention and involve university staff. Evidence-based data on their effectiveness are also lacking. This article reports the description of a pilot evaluation study of the USVreact Italian…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Prevention, College Environment
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Genta, Chiara; Favaro, Silvia; Sonetti, Giulia; Barioglio, Caterina; Lombardi, Patrizia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to report strategies towards a green campus project at Politecnico di Torino University, a 33,000-students Italian higher education institution (HEI), and estimate the avoided ecological footprint (EF) of different scenarios accounted for open spaces. Design/methodology/approach: A consumption-based study has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), College Environment, Energy Conservation
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Bradbury-Jones, Caroline; Molloy, Eleanor; Clark, Maria; Ward, Nicki – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Research into higher education has shown that for those who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and/or Queer (LGBTQ), universities are places where both direct and indirect discrimination is experienced. This paper reports the findings from a systematic search and review on gender and sexual diversity in professional practice placements.…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Student Diversity, Social Bias, Teacher Role
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Reale, Emanuela; Seeber, Marco – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
How do Higher Education Institutions respond to steering attempts in different disciplines? How can different responses be explained? Case studies have been developed in the Italian Higher Education context and at the departmental level, with a focus on government interventions through funding and evaluation of research. The paper tests the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, College Environment, Educational Change
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Rossi, Federica – Higher Education Policy, 2009
Increasing diversity is often advocated as an effective strategy through which higher education systems can cope with the new functions that they are required to perform, and respond to the varied demands that they face from an increasing and more diverse set of stakeholders. Such diversity is sometimes considered as the "natural"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, Intellectual Disciplines, Enrollment
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Boffo, Stefano; Dubois, Pierre; Moscati, Roberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
The transformation of higher education systems under the pressure of new needs required by the "society of knowledge" in France and Italy has had a deep effect on the relationship between state and university, and therefore a direct impact on university governance. This article sums up the main results of a research carried out on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Resistance to Change