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For-Profits Fill a Niche in Mexico, but Graduates Face Dim Prospects
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Ambrus, Steven – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
With 16,000 graduate and undergraduate students, the International College for Experienced Learning (ICEL) is widely considered among the better for-profit universities in Mexico, where such institutions have flourished over the last 20 years by offering degrees that can be earned relatively quickly, and flexibility in terms of fee payments and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Social Class, Graduates
American Faculty and Their Institutions: The Global View
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Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions
From Folklore to Molecular Pharmacophores: Cultivating STEM Students among Young, First-Generation Female Mexican-Americans
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Gardea, Jessica; Rios, Laura; Pal, Rituraj; Gardea-Torresdey, Jorge L.; Narayan, Mahesh – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
The Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program of the Academy of Applied Science has funded several high school student summer internships to work within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at El Paso. Over the last nine years, young Mexican-American scholars have been recruited into STEM-specific (science, technology,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Folk Culture, Science Laboratories, Foreign Countries
Four Trajectories of Rectors in Mexican Public Universities
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Lopez Zarate, Romualdo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
Although rectors of Mexican public universities play an important role in their institutions, we know very little about them. This article first describes the different election processes in Mexican public universities for selecting a rector. These varied processes reveal the ambiguity of the concept of "autonomy" as applied to rectors,…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Public Colleges, Personnel Selection, Career Development
Creating Meaning from Intersections of Career and Cultural Identity
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Gross, Linda S. – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
For Latino students, career development and planning includes the negotiation of family influences, peer expectations, and challenges as they develop career efficacy in work experiences as undergraduates. The model presented here outlines how students can benefit from a holistic perspective on the intersections of career and cultural identity.…
Descriptors: Career Development, Holistic Approach, College Students, Hispanic Americans
The Forms, Methods and Techniques of Vocational and Educational Guidance: International Case Studies.
Hoxter, H. Z., Ed. – 1981
Guidance in education is the presentation of knowledge, information, and/or advice to individuals or groups in a structured way so as to provide sufficient material upon which they may base choices or decisions. Counseling in education may be described as the interaction developing through the relationship between a counselor and a person in a…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance