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Download full textMenevse, Aliye; Yapici, Emir – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study aims to compare the opinions of students in the departments of sports management (SM) and coaching (COA) in the USA Bergen Community College and Esenyurt University on their department preferences and on education. Descriptive research model was employed in the study. A total of 300 students from Esenyurt University (SM; n=71, COA; n=…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Education, Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis
Combs, Stephen M. – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2016
The search for a common model of instruction in first-year composition began in the 1960s when composition first began to separate from literature in college English departments. Because writing is essentially a methods course with no standard curriculum as one might find in physics or economics, common model has been elusive. A sign that…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Open Enrollment, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Direct linkCady, Sara C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research studies have shown that one half of all students who begin college fail to realize their goals. This case study of one community college provided a comprehensive examination of best practices developed over several years through strategic enrollment planning. Additionally, this dissertation examined the decision-making processes that…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Jenkins, Rob – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Students with complaints about faculty members--baseless or otherwise--take up a great deal of a typical department head's day. This author, a department chairman for seven years, supervised close to 200 full-time and part-time faculty members, and received complaints about every single one. At least 70 percent of those complaints were of the "my…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Interpersonal Competence, Teacher Student Relationship, College Faculty
DiMaria, Frank – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
When college students are asked why they attend college, most say they want to obtain a diploma so they can get a good job, make good money, and get ahead in the world. A growing body of evidence indicates that students are hoping to get more than just education out of their college experience. They are searching for life skills and a way to help…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Service Learning, Department Heads, College Students
Bissett, Susan J. C. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2004
John Gardner, of the National Resource Center for The First Year Experience and Students in Transition, addressed academic librarians at the ACRL meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, in April 2003, urging librarians to become more actively involved in First Year Experience courses. Susan J. C. Bissett responds in this article, citing the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Librarians, Library Associations
