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Lebold, Randal Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores learners' sense of community in the linguistics department at a Christian university in Western Canada. Since sense of community is an important factor in students' satisfaction, retention, and learning, it is important for educators to know how to support their students' feelings of community. Theological research on Christian…
Descriptors: College Students, Sense of Community, Linguistics, English Departments
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Shelley B. Wepner; William A. Henk; Nora Broege – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Academic deans in higher education can benefit from various types of mentoring to compensate for limited, formal administrative training. Using a nationally disseminated survey, we examined academic dean engagement with critical friends as one form of mentoring for their leadership development. The national survey included 27 items addressing…
Descriptors: Friendship, Mentors, Deans, Higher Education
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Barnes, Sarah; Nakamura, Yuka; Safai, Parissa – Quest, 2022
The purpose of this article is to explore how social forces related to the corporatization of universities play out at the granular level of institutional mission and vision statements in the racialized context of Canadian Kinesiology. The stated aims of Canadian Kinesiology academic units (N = 36) were collected from their public-facing websites,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kinesiology, Institutional Mission, Higher Education
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Leda Stawnychko – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
University leaders navigate a complex and dynamic environment, balancing the diverse expectations of students, faculty, policy makers, and governmental bodies. Proficiency in these roles requires deep academic understanding, contextual knowledge, and effective management and leadership skills. This study explored how faculty members serving as…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Role Theory
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Pearce, Joshua M.; Tiwari, Shardul; Pascaris, Alexis S.; Schelly, Chelsea – Cogent Education, 2022
To accelerate scientific progress by advancing the spread of open access and free and open source software and hardware in academia, this study surveyed university professors in Canada to determine their willingness accept "open source (OS) endowed chair professorships." To obtain such an "open source endowed chair," in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Endowment Funds
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Huber, Mary Taylor; Hutchings, Pat – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
The Bay View Alliance (BVA; https://bayviewalliance.org/) is a network of research universities working together to support and sustain the widespread adoption of instructional methods that lead to better student learning. The BVA's research action cluster on collaborative course transformation sought and received funding from the National Science…
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Change, STEM Education, Teaching Methods
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Mahmood, Fariha; Gray, Novan A. G.; Benincasa, Kathryn A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
The Conversation Series is a grassroots initiative consisting of monthly discussion events ("Conversations") on topics of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), organized by and for the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) at McMaster University. The initiative originated in June 2020 with the #ShutDownSTEM strike, which…
Descriptors: Discussion, Meetings, Science Departments, Chemistry
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Kolomitro, Klodiana; Inglese, Jenna; Stockley, Denise; Scott, Jill; Wright, Madison – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2023
Purpose: In 2010, the Ontario Universities Quality Assurance Council was established and became responsible for monitoring the quality of university programs, and each university was tasked with establishing institutional quality assurance purposes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the quality assurance process at…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
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Warren, Meg A.; Bordoloi, Samit D. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Allyship is increasingly viewed as a crucial practice to address social and economic inequities faced by marginalized groups. However, little research explores how dominant group members can behave as allies and what marginalized group individuals consider as valuable. Research shows that women faculty in male-dominated academic disciplines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Sex Fairness
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Susan Prentice; Lindsey McKay; Trina McKellep – Teaching Sociology, 2024
To what degree is explicit care/work policy taught in family courses in Canada's leading research-intensive universities? We analyze family courses in sociology departments and in political studies and women's/gender studies programs in Canada's 15 R1 universities to make a contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Course Content, Content Analysis
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Zhang, Li; Li, Chen – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2020
Researchers are increasingly using academic profile websites (APWs) to organize and showcase their research outputs. Using the faculty at the science departments of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada as the study object, this research explores how science researchers used four APWs: ResearchGate, Google Scholar Citations, Academia.edu, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, College Faculty, Teacher Researchers
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Berdahl, Loleen; Malloy, Jonathan – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2019
There is widespread discussion about the need to develop and enhance the career prospects of PhD graduates, and many Canadian universities are seeking to provide professional development programs and mentorship specifically for doctoral students. This paper considers doctoral career preparation from the department level through an in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Department Heads, Faculty Development, Political Science
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Martin East; David Slomp – Language Teaching, 2024
Both of us were drawn into the writing assessment field initially through our lived experiences as schoolteachers. We worked in radically different contexts -- Martin was head of a languages department and teacher of French and German in the late 1990s in the UK, and David was a Grade 12 teacher of Academic English in Alberta, Canada, at the turn…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers, French
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Peacock, David; Thompson, Connor J. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
We provide a case study of how Carnegie Foundation grants to the University of Alberta (Western Canada) during the Great Depression impacted the university's community engagement practices. Previously unutilized archival sources contribute to a historical survey of the university's Department of Extension as Carnegie philanthropy enabled the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Departments, Extension Education
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Dean, Yasmin; Nickel, Jodi; Miller, Janet; Pickett Seltner, Ruth – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
This study aimed to understand the lived experience of department chairs in a Canadian university context. Guided by phenomenological inquiry, 21 individual interviews of experienced academic chairs were analyzed. Findings focus on the rewards and challenges of the position, advice for professors interested in taking on this role, and the systemic…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Middle Management, Professional Identity, Role Perception
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