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Hooser, Angela; Evert, Kimberly; Krahenbuhl, Kevin – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
This essay shares the ongoing efforts of faculty in one EdD program to embrace applied research methodologies and the shifts made in research coursework to support our doctoral candidates as they explore problems of practice. Framed by third space theory, our redesign work is positioned as the lived experience through which we were able to reflect…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Student Research, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations
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Meadows, Meredith L.; Suiter, Sarah V.; Sealy, Linda J.; Marshall, Dana R.; Whalen, Margaret M.; Adunyah, Samuel E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
This study examined longitudinal education and career outcomes of the Meharry-Vanderbilt-Tennessee State University Cancer Partnership, the longest-running National Cancer Institute (NCI) Comprehensive Partnerships in Advancing Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) program site in the United States. Degree completion rates were calculated and progression…
Descriptors: College Students, Oncology, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
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Anderson, Laurel J.; Dosch, Jerald J.; Lindquist, Erin S.; McCay, Timothy S.; Machado, Jose-Luis; Kuers, Karen; Gartner, Tracy B.; Shea, Kathleen L.; Mankiewicz, Carol; Rodgers, Vikki L.; Saunders, Patricia A.; Urban, Rebecca A.; Kilgore, Jason S.; Powell, Amanda S.; Ramage, Benjamin S.; Steinweg, J. Megan; Straub, Jacob N.; Bunnell, Sarah L.; Witkovsky-Eldred, Marissa – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
Multisite, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) were assessed for impacts on student learning of collaborative science skills using a survey that could serve as a starting point for a validated assessment instrument for multisite CUREs. Pretests/posttests were administered…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Cooperation, Science Process Skills
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Berry, Teresa U.; Williamson, Jeanine M. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2021
To meet the research, teaching, and learning needs of their users, academic librarians, particularly those functioning as subject liaisons, are expected to know the institution's curriculum and research areas so that they can help shape library strategies to meet those needs and to connect users to the library's resources and services. The present…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Engineering, Research, Academic Libraries
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Reid, Joshua W.; Gardner, Grant E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Graduate students represent both a significant component of the instructional team for biology departments as well as being students themselves learning to become academics. However, little is known about how biology graduate students perceive the relationships among their academic roles, particularly research and teaching. The present study used…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Biology, Science Instruction
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Nasrollahian Mojarad, Sara; Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2022
MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
Hensel, Nancy H. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2021
This book highlights the exciting work of two-year colleges to prepare students for their future careers through engagement in undergraduate research. It emerged from work in five community college systems thanks to two National Science Foundation grants the Council for Undergraduate Research received to support community colleges' efforts to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Odle, Taylor K. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
System governing boards fulfill roles as both regulators and protectors for their multiple constituent campuses. While centralized control provides many benefits to institutional members, such advantages are also be accompanied by limitations upon campuses to pursue expanded missions, fully compete, and spend according to individual rather than…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Compensation (Remuneration)
Odle, Taylor K. – Grantee Submission, 2021
System governing boards fulfill roles as both regulators and protectors for their multiple constituent campuses. While centralized control provides many benefits to institutional members, such advantages are also be accompanied by limitations upon campuses to pursue expanded missions, fully compete, and spend according to individual rather than…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Ding, Wandi; Florida, Ryan; Summers, Jeffery; Nepal, Puran; Burton, Ben – PRIMUS, 2019
We share our experience and lessons learned from using Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations (SIMIODE) modeling scenarios in our Differential Equations I class at Middle Tennessee State University. Specific projects with Python codes are presented. Discussions are brought forth on how to…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models
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Garcia, Crystal E.; Walker, William; Bradley, Samantha E.; Smith, Kathleen – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
Scholarship has provided some insight into inequities that exist within sorority and fraternity life (SFL), whereas members of culturally based sororities and fraternities within Multicultural Greek Councils (MGC) and National Pan-Hellenic Councils (NPHC) report being treated as inferior to those in historically white organizations. However, few…
Descriptors: Sororities, Fraternities, Web Sites, Research Universities
Gorbunov, Alexander; Moreland, Amy; Tingle, Chris; Deaton, Russ – Tennessee Board of Regents - The College System of Tennessee, 2022
We investigate whether student participation in undergraduate research--a high impact practice at TBR community colleges--has an effect on (1) academic performance; (2) probability of graduation, university transfer, and student departure; and (3) time to completion, transfer, and departure. Using enrollment, graduation, and course-taking data on…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Megan Roberts – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The undergraduate major change or declaration process can be cumbersome for students who find themselves in unknown territories when making decisions or seeking help during this transition. One of the most challenging groups of students to assist through this transition are those who are denied access to their intended program of study. These…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Decision Making
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Baum, Brittany Smith; Rowell, Ginger Holmes; Green, Lisa; Yantz, Jennifer; Beck, Jesse; Cheatham, Thomas; Stephens, D. Christopher; Nelson, Donald – PRIMUS, 2017
As part of Middle Tennessee State University's (MTSU's) initiative to improve retention of at-risk STEM majors, they recruit first-time, full-time freshman STEM majors with mathematics ACT scores of 19 to 23 to participate in MTSU's "Mathematics as a FirstSTEP to Success in STEM" project (FirstSTEP). This article overviews MTSU's…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, STEM Education, Majors (Students), College Freshmen
Bragg, Debra D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
On February 18-19, 2016, representatives of 10 states participating in the Credit When It's Due (CWID) initiative attended a convening held at the University of Utah. The meeting was led by the CWID Research Team and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Kresge Foundation, on behalf of the CWID Funders Collaborative. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Credits, Reverse Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
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