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Katherine R. Mickley Steinmetz; Monica M. Gaudier-Diaz; Emily C. Huber; Brandon H. Edwards; Keely A. Muscatell – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine social connection as a protective factor against exam stress. Participants: 55 undergraduate students at two universities. Methods: Students were evaluated on an exam day for their hardest class and at baseline, a day in a week where they had no exams. Social connection, salivary cortisol, perceived stress, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Test Anxiety, Student Evaluation, Social Support Groups
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Watts, Tyler – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
As online learning continues to grow and became an integral component of many higher education institutions, the role of leadership in guiding those online learning initiatives differs from institution to institution. This paper explores the experiences of leaders in centers for teaching and learning who have a role in online learning leadership…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Electronic Learning, Administrator Role
Hetrick, Barbara; Whyte, Susan Barnes – Council of Independent Colleges, 2020
From 2015 through 2019, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) conducted a project that was intended to test the utility of Shared Shelf to the teaching and research needs of small colleges. Shared Shelf (now called JSTOR Forum) made it possible for a collection of material assembled by one faculty member--for example, butterfly specimens--to…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
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Ismail, Lizah – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
Arguably, the dilemma for many small college libraries is delivering face-to-face library instruction to satellite students without having the resources and/or staff to do so. In order to channel energies to where they are needed most, this institution conducted a survey of its satellite students to determine what their library instruction…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Distance Education, Academic Libraries, Student Surveys
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Brown, Alice W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2011
Colleges survive sometimes because they are able to merge with another institution (a for-profit company, another private college, a state university). The change at the College of Charleston was shaped in the 1970s, when the college did not "merge" with a state institution--it "became" a state institution, which grew.. and…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Autobiographies, College Presidents
Briner, Jack V., Jr.; Roberts, James E.; Worthy, Fred – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2005
Small universities do not have all of the resources that larger ones do. There are fewer computers, fewer teachers, fewer technicians and of course less money. Charleston Southern University (CSU) seeks to be one of the smallest universities to meet national accreditation standards in computer science (ABET-CAC). This presentation will provide a…
Descriptors: Computers, Computer Software, Accreditation (Institutions), Small Colleges
Smith, Peter, Ed.; Smith, Carol L., Ed. – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2004
This 2004 Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) conference proceedings presented the theme "Leading Strategic & Cultural Change through Technology." The conference introduced its ASCUE Officers and Directors, and provides abstracts of the pre-conference workshops. The full-text conference papers in this document…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Computers, Student Surveys, Interaction