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Matthew T. Hora; Zi Chen; Matthew Wolfgram; Jiahong Zhang; Jacklyn John Fischer – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Internships are widely promoted high-impact practices that can have positive impacts on students' academic and post-graduate success, yet how specific features facilitate these outcomes is understudied. Instead, internships are often studied in terms of mere participation, without recognizing that these experiences are complex pedagogic spaces…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Educational Practices, Student Satisfaction, Cultural Influences
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Hora, Matthew T.; Wolfgram, Matthew; Chen, Zi; Lee, Changhee – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Internships for college students can enhance their grades, skills, and employment prospects, but finding and completing an internship sometimes requires considerable resources. Consequently, before postsecondary institutions consider mandating this high-impact practice, more evidence is needed regarding the various obstacles students…
Descriptors: Barriers, Internship Programs, College Students, Black Colleges
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2019
Academic mindset encompasses individuals' beliefs about the ways learning and intelligence work. These beliefs frame students' thinking, influence how they interpret events, and ultimately affect their success. This report provides results from the first large set of data on mindset in community colleges. These data suggest that understanding the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
Grimes, Terry – Council of Independent Colleges, 2014
Because of their commitment to the voluntary measurement and improvement of student learning outcomes, colleges and universities that are members of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) have been at the forefront of the national shift from teacher-centered to student-centered learning. The institutions participating in the CIC Degree…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Consortia, Qualifications, Outcomes of Education