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Cazembe Kennedy; Zach Johnson – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this chapter, we explore the organizational units, projects, and support that exist for digital literacy within the Vanderbilt University Library system. We frame the chapter chronologically, starting with the efforts of the past, then moving toward the present efforts, and concluding with where future efforts are going.
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy, Library Administration, Library Automation
Maricel Lawrence – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The unpredictability of the 21st century presents a challenge for higher education institutions, requiring them to develop the capacity to navigate an increasingly unpredictable environment. This study aimed to examine how faculty, administrators, and leaders at a four-year, public, fully online university in the United States start to embed…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Virtual Universities, Change Strategies, Capacity Building
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Cheryl Regehr; Nicholas O. Rule – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
The abrupt onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced a dramatic shift in higher education. Over time, the prolonged and cyclical nature of public-health restrictions conditioned students, faculty, and staff to adopt a crisis mindset as their baseline. Moving from crisis to recovery therefore posed unique obstacles at both individual (e.g. anxiety,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Resilience (Psychology), Urban Education
Vandhana Palliyarikkal Ramachandran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is the decrease in educational continuance of New Mexico high school students to college or university. The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to gain insight into how educational administrators in New Mexico high schools, colleges, and universities perceive what factors influence students in Advancement Placement…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Dual Enrollment, High Schools, Administrators
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Jon McNaughtan; Jarett Lujan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study utilizes interviews with five Hispanic presidents at Hispanic-serving community colleges in the United States to understand how presidents define and perceive their role in ensuring Hispanic servingness, that is, guaranteeing that the Hispanic population is being fully served, at Hispanic-Serving Institutes (HSIs). We employ Garcia and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, College Presidents, Administrator Role
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Amanda Huffman Hayes – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Using narrative inquiry, I share the beginning stories of the instructional visions of secondary mathematics teachers throughout their undergraduate studies of pedagogy and content-specific methods and evidenced in undergraduate coursework and student teaching experience. Guided by Munter's (2014) Visions of High-Quality Mathematics Instruction…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Student Teachers, Methods Courses
Daniel Sheets – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored the current perceptions and preferences for residence hall construction lifespan standards among campus master planners and housing administrators in higher education. Historically, universities have built residence halls with the intention of spanning many decades (Guckert & King, 2004). However, there has been a…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement
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Kabasakal, Hatice Zekavet; Demir, Kadir – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Cyberloafing is a widely recognized concept associated with the Internet, which has a wide usage area today. Cyberloafing is extensively noticed, particularly among young people, and its association with a variety of variables is being researched. In this study, university students' life goals and cyberloafing profiles were analyzed on the basis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Internet, Student Behavior
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Jin Wan; Fei Liu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Career choice research has attracted the attention of recruiters and young graduates. The study aims to investigate the psychological factors that influence college students' employment choices. As a result, data for the study were gathered from 250 final-year college students in China via an online questionnaire survey. The study identified the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, College Students, Employment Interviews, Career Choice
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Louise David; Felicitas Biwer; Rik Crutzen; Anique de Bruin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Study habits drive a large portion of how university students study. Some of these habits are not effective in fostering academic achievement. To support students in breaking old, ineffective habits and forming new, effective study habits, an in-depth understanding of what students' study habits look like and how they are both formed and broken is…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Self Management
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Dafna Gelbgiser; Sigal Alon – Sociology of Education, 2024
Academic mismatch, the incompatibility between applicants'/students' aptitude and their desired/current academic program, is considered a key predictor of degree attainment. Evaluations of this link tend to be cross-sectional, however, focusing on specific stages of the college pipeline and ignoring mismatch at prior or later stages and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Choice, Academic Degrees
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Katherine E. DeVet – Journal of Access Services, 2024
With resource sharing staff staying an average of 3-5 years, capturing policies and procedures to facilitate onboarding and strengthen institutional memory is key in building consistent workflows. Creating documentation was a multi-stage process executed over several years. Initially, the staff supervisor wrote office policies and assigned staff…
Descriptors: Documentation, Shared Resources and Services, Library Personnel, Library Policy
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Brit Claiborne; Eric Cordero-Siy – Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
High teacher attrition rates suggest the need for new methods of STEM teacher education to prepare teachers for fulfilling professional and personal lives. This design research study explores an approach to teacher learning within a US university-based teacher education course which centres projective agency as a key aspect of teacher learning,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Imagination, Fiction, Educational Attitudes
Timothy G. Harrison; Shirin Alexander; Nick Barron; Jessica Bonham; Marisol Correa Ascencio; Andrew Chapman; Ben Cheesman; Matthew England; Jane Fletcher; Stephanie Flynn; Phyllis Fiadzomor; James Fothergill; Claudio Greco; Ash Griffith; Kate Hanford; Preeti Kaur; M. Anwar H. Khan; Rebecca Ingle; Gordon Inglis; Adele Laurain; Emma Liddle; Marcus I. Medley; Ikenna Ndukwe; Alison Rivett; Rebecca Sage; Zoe Schnepp; Linda Sellou; Katherine E. Shaw; Steve Street; Godiraone Tatolo; Rachel Wellington; Dudley E. Shallcross – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Postgraduate engagement in delivering outreach activities is more commonplace than it once was. However, the impact on postgraduate students (typically studying for a Ph.D. degree) of participating in the delivery of these outreach activities has rarely, if ever, been recorded. The Bristol ChemLabS Outreach program has been running for ca. 17…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Outreach Programs, Skill Development, Employment Potential
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Chi Hong Nguyen; Tham Nguyen Van – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
In Vietnam, some universities develop a similar program to a practicum or an internship called an on-the-job training (OJT) program. However, this concept appears to be quite new to students, and its impacts on students' learning and growth remain under-researched. The current study explores how OJT programs impact students' future careers and…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Individual Development, Career Development, Foreign Countries
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