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Simpson, Steve; Clemens, Rebecca; Killingsworth, Drea Rae; Ford, Julie Dyke – Across the Disciplines, 2015
A flurry of recent research in writing studies has addressed the need for more systematic approaches to graduate-level writing support, though more research is needed into more organic models that account for graduate students' specific needs and that build infrastructure for writing support within university departments. This article reports on a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, STEM Education, Earth Science, Engineering Education
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Bussmann, Susan; Johnson, Sandra R.; Oliver, Richard; Forsythe, Kerry; Grandjean, Miley; Lebsock, Michelle; Luster, Tyler – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2017
What constitutes excellence in teaching for university faculty when they are expected or required to create quality online courses? This is a question that will increasingly be asked of members of promotion and tenure committees as market pressures demand entire degrees be delivered online. Developing a quality online course is a significant…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Promotion, Tenure, Online Courses
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Heileman, Gregory L.; Babbitt, Terry H.; Abdallah, Chaouki T. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
Many institutions are trying to better understand the factors that drive student success and failure in order to improve the efficiency of degree production. Traditional academic reporting systems are not adequate for this purpose, since they are designed to measure outcomes, not to uncover the factors that influence them. To address this problem,…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Student Characteristics