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American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2021
The alumni group Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse (DFTD) was founded in 2018 to monitor the state of free expression, diversity of viewpoints, and ideological balance at Davidson College. DFTD was also founded to undertake research to help clarify whether perceived problems in these key areas are real. Fall 2021 survey of major…
Descriptors: Alumni, Donors, Academic Freedom, Higher Education
Butcher, Jonathan – Heritage Foundation, 2019
The White House released an executive order to protect free speech on college campuses, appropriately highlighting the issue of ongoing threats to expression in the ivory tower. The President and his Administration exercised restraint with this order by directing federal agencies to stay within the bounds of existing law as the agencies implement…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, College Students, College Environment, Higher Education
Moore, Warren C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research study examined the campus culture of two community colleges in North Carolina. These colleges were selected based on language included in their mission statements. The campus culture of each institution was explored through the lived experiences of minority (African American and Hispanic) students attending those colleges. Native…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Minority Group Students, College Environment, School Culture
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Karen Keaton Jackson; Amara Hand – Writing Center Journal, 2023
Over the past several decades, writing center scholarship has evolved to include multiple theories and pedagogies that led to widely used best practices. As is the case in many disciplines, often writing centers at large, research PWIs are most often cited and highlighted within the scholarship. While many of those readings do offer helpful…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Black Colleges, Student Diversity
Enrico, Marisa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite empirical evidence suggesting social-emotional learning (SEL) is critical for reducing risk behaviors and promoting mental health, prosocial behaviors, and academic achievement, SEL programs have not been routinely adopted in school settings (Durlak et al., 2011). Due to associated implications for adoption and implementation, recent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Development, Emotional Development, Mental Health
Deborah Stephanie Harrison – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Growing educational research shows that teachers of color are finding themselves working in racially hostile schools, experiencing racism from their white colleagues in explicit and inexplicit ways. There is a need to further categorize how North Carolina teachers of color are experiencing racism in the workplace and identify how they are affected…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Race, Racism, Work Environment
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McNeil, Jane; Borg, Michaela – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
Although there is considerable interest in learning spaces in higher education, the relationship between spaces and learning is complex and not well-understood. Despite challenges, such as the lack of comparability between studies, we need to learn more about the interaction of space design and learning. A crucial step towards this is the creation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Correlation, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
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Kinzer, Kirsten – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Public administration, or the implementation of public policies by civil servants, will be central to implementing the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. And yet, few American master of public administration (MPA) programs explicitly focus on sustainable development or sustainability literacy. This study asks whether it is…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Student Interests
Rachel Michele Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The field of education has undergone great change, affecting the classroom of many institutions. Changes that occurred at the classroom level, for example the integration of technology into the classroom, have proven to be a challenge for most educational institutions. The problem addressed in this study was that teachers were expected to…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Faculty Development, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Alverson, Ryan; DiCicco, Mike; Faulkner, Shawn A.; Cook, Chris – Middle Grades Review, 2019
For more than 100 years, education communities have debated how best to educate the young adolescent. Proponents of both the junior high school model and the current middle school model have advocated for a specialized approach to educating adolescents that emphasizes the developmental needs of students. To accomplish this, various organizational…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Models, Middle School Teachers, Principals
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Mosley, Chaney; Broyles, Thomas; Kaufman, Eric – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2021
This study investigates how teacher-student relationships develop. If a teacher is able to foster high-quality relationships with all students, will students work harder in the classroom? An understanding of how teacher-student relationships develop is critical to answering that question. In this investigation, the authors follow a holistic case…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Leadership, High School Teachers, High School Students
Yifan Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation includes three essays on school choice. In Chapter 1 we consider the priority-based affirmative action policy in school choice. We weaken the responsiveness to affirmative action policy by requiring at least one minority student to be weakly better off when their priorities are improved. We find that under both the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Affirmative Action, Minority Group Students, Magnet Schools
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Cagle, Nicolette L. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Previous work has identified time spent in nature as a child as a precursor to active care for the natural world (i.e. environmental commitment), but a paucity of data exists on what happens to environmentally committed people's relationship to nature over time, including the time spent in nature and the quality of that experience. In addition,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Natural Resources, Ecology
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Webb, Patrick; Lyons, James E., II; Patrick, Le'Brian; Arkenberg, Marnie E.; Robinson, B. Renee – Journal of Negro Education, 2021
Compared to non-HBCU institutions, studies associated with student perceptions of campus crimes in HBCU settings are limited. Utilizing survey data from two HBCUs, nearly 200 students express their opinions in association with victimization, offender characteristics, and campus safety strategies. Descriptive results indicate high levels of support…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Students, African American Students, College Environment
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Brandes-Aitken, Annie; Braren, Stephen; Gandhi, Jill; Perry, Rosemarie E.; Rowe-Harriott, Sashana; Blair, Clancy – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Using data from a large longitudinal sample (N = 1,292) of children and their caregivers in predominantly low-income, nonurban communities, we investigated longitudinal relations between attuned caregiving in infancy, joint attention in toddlerhood, and executive functions in early childhood. The results from path analysis demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Attention, Longitudinal Studies, Executive Function, Low Income
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