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Klempin, Serena; Pellegrino, Lauren – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
Academic advising plays a critical role in student engagement and persistence at community colleges, and colleges are increasingly adopting advising technologies to increase their capacity to support students. However, much remains unknown about the process of planning for and implementing technology-mediated advising redesigns. To explore these…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Educational Technology, Educational Change
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Kezar, Adrianna; Sam, Cecile – Educational Policy, 2014
Policymakers and leaders have been calling for changes in the Academy for nontenure-track faculty. This study focuses on the role of governance in creating that policy change, and the practices facilitating their role in changing the institution through governance. Findings include: governance facilitating day-to-day changes, establishing…
Descriptors: Governance, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Teacher Role
Vasquez, Marquoise D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Numerous studies exist on distributive and procedural justice among union represented or nonunion employees. However, there does not appear to be any research on the perceptions of justice from individuals who have worked in both capacities, under differing processes and procedures for each group, within the same heavily unionized organization.…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Urban Education, Colleges, Unions
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Grites, Thomas J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2013
This chapter provides an analysis of a set of conditions that transfer students will most likely face in their transition to a new institution. The specific focus is on transfer from two-year to four-year institutions. This chapter will identify many of the common challenges transfer students face simply because they are entering a new learning…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Colleges
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2009
This survey was jointly conducted by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) and United Educators (UE) and reports data on attitudes, practices and policies regarding enterprise risk management among American colleges and universities. The survey was completed by more than 600 respondents in June 2008. The population…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Colleges, College Administration, School Surveys
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Miller, Abby – New Directions for Higher Education, 2013
This chapter presents findings from two recent Pell Institute studies, which explored the characteristics and experiences of low-income, first-generation community college transfer students in Texas and two-year and four-year institutional approaches to facilitating transfer student degree completion. Specifically, the first study asked the…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Characteristics, Low Income Groups, First Generation College Students