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Kumar, Swapna; Ritzhaupt, Albert; Pedro, Neuza Sofia – Online Learning, 2022
Online instructors play a critical role in online student success and need various forms of institutional support to succeed in online teaching. This article describes the creation, validation, and results of the Online Instructor Support Survey (OISS) based on seven areas identified in the literature: (a) technology infrastructure; (b) technical…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Online Courses, Teacher Student Relationship
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Azman, Norzaini; Sirat, Morshidi; Pang, Vincent; Lai, Yew Meng; Govindasamy, Anantha Raman; Din, Wardatul Akmam – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2019
University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) has been identified as an essential item on Malaysia's agenda for transforming itself into knowledge and innovation-based economy. However, despite the efforts, most initiatives have had limited results. This paper reports on an explorative study that sought to understand the contemporary realities of UIC in…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Industry, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Lei, Jun – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
Although scholarly publishing is increasingly institutionalised as a graduation requirement or expectation for doctoral students around the world, there has been little systematic investigation of institutional policies on doctoral publication. This study aims to fill this lacuna by critically examining a Chinese university's publication…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, School Policy
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Bhagwan, R. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
Although discourse related to the salience of community engagement in higher education has proliferated, little has focussed on the process of institutionalisation of community engagement, in South Africa. This paper presents findings from a national study, which focussed on how community engagement can be institutionalised within higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Community Involvement
Wagner, Joan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
College and university mission statements commonly declare contributions for the public good and the development of engaged and responsible citizens as central to their institution's work. Yet, a different narrative is often revealed when rhetoric meets reality in the promotion and tenure policies for faculty. Since Ernest Boyer's seminal work…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Catholic Schools, Institutional Mission, College Faculty
Cavallaro, Claire C. – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
The concept of community engagement as a primary function of higher education and the roots of this movement can be traced back to the 1980s with the founding of the Campus Compact in 1985 (Glass & Fitzgerald, 2010). The concept has been endorsed by several higher education organizations, including the American Association of State Colleges…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Rewards, Urban Universities, Metropolitan Areas
Kezar, Adrianna – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2019
This report presents an innovative approach for higher education institutions to better support students from diverse backgrounds. It explores how colleges and universities can fulfill a student success agenda through the creation of a diverse infrastructure that enables the overall institution to effectively mobilize to serve diverse student…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Student Needs, Success
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Eatman, Timothy K.; Ivory, Gaelle; Saltmarsh, John; Middleton, Michael; Wittman, Amanda; Dolgon, Corey – Urban Education, 2018
Publicly engaged scholarship (PES) has emerged as a powerful force, yet institutional policies and cultures have often inhibited its acceptance in the academy. This article considers the benefits of PES for higher education as well as the obstacles to its enactment. It identifies the college level as a critical site for change and offers a rubric…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, School Policy, Change Agents, Higher Education
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Lochbihler, Stephanie L.; Miller, Daniel A.; Etcheverry, Paul E. – Journal of American College Health, 2014
Objective: Animal studies have shown that when nicotine is administered in the presence of other animals (as compared with alone), it is more rewarding. As a human analogue to these studies, rewards associated with designated smoking areas on university campuses were examined, since these areas promote using nicotine in the presence of others.…
Descriptors: Animals, Smoking, Health Behavior, Campuses
Kezar, Adrianna; Holcombe, Elizabeth – Liberal Education, 2017
Certain widely tested educational practices have been shown to have a significantly beneficial impact on student learning and success in college. These "high-impact practices" include first-year experiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, collaborative assignments and projects,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Best Practices, Institutional Research, Administrator Guides
Jenkins, Davis; Wachen, John; Moore, Colleen; Shulock, Nancy – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2012
In 2007, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges launched a performance funding policy called the Student Achievement Initiative (SAI) both to improve public accountability by more accurately describing what students achieve from enrolling in community colleges and to provide incentives to colleges through financial rewards…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Incentives, Technical Institutes
Liu, Ying – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study is one of only a few that attempts to examine simultaneously faculty productivity in teaching, research, and service. The research is guided by a conceptual model built from several branches of the literature on career stage theory, motivation theory, and previous studies of faculty productivity. The model hypothesizes that faculty…
Descriptors: Productivity, College Faculty, STEM Education, Research Universities
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Mendoza, Pilar; Berger, Joseph B. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
In the 1980s, the US government encouraged the cooperation of industries with universities in order to bridge funding gaps and cope with global competitive markets through legislations that allow universities to start spin-off businesses and to generate profits from patents. At the turn of the century, university partnerships with the private…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Private Sector, Research Universities, Comparative Analysis