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Anders Hylmö; Kody Steffy; Duncan A. Thomas; Liv Langfeldt – Research Evaluation, 2024
Whereas a growing number of studies evidence that research quality notions and evaluative practices are field- and context-specific, many focus on single evaluative practices or moments. This paper introduces the concept of "quality landscape" to capture dynamics of interrelated quality notions, evaluative moments and practices in a…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Reputation, Departments, Economics Education
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Martinez, Antonio Estevan; Gehrtz, Jessica; Rasmussen, Chris; LaTona-Tequida, Talia; Vroom, Kristen – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
One way that university mathematics departments across the United States are making efforts to improve their introductory mathematics courses is by implementing or increasing the level of course coordination. This can entail creating uniform course elements for multi-section courses and efforts to build a community of practice among the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Departments, Coordination, Communities of Practice
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Basu, Partha; Deiss, Frédérique; Long, Eric C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
A time- and cost-effective strategy aimed at increasing awareness of diversity, equity, inclusion, respect (DEIR), safety, and other issues within a typical graduate program is described. Using a brief portion of time (up to [approximately]10 min) at the commencement of each weekly departmental colloquium event, graduate students under faculty…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Safety
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Ludvik, Marilee Bresciani; Hagedorn, Linda Serra – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
The Netflix series, "The Chair," illustrates a dramatic portrayal of the role of the chair. The reality of the department chair's role is complex and becoming more so. The inherent structure of the department chair is rife with paradoxes. Following a brief overview of the leadership literature and a quick summary of "The Chair"…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Educational Change, Administrator Role, College Faculty
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Peacock, Jeremy; Melville, Wayne – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Working from a historical perspective indicates that there are four periods over the last 170 years through which the role of the science chair has developed. This evolution has progressed from the administrative need to implement the agenda of the newly professionalised science of the nineteenth century, to a greater emphasis on the role of the…
Descriptors: Science Departments, Instructional Leadership, Department Heads, Leadership Role
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David Walden; Katelyn U. Cowen – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
The field of college mental health is changing dramatically, and we are approaching a necessary paradigm shift in how "mental health" is defined and addressed. This paper will outline two primary forces impacting how we think about mental health and how a systems change perspective might help us understand what comes next. We will…
Descriptors: College Students, Mental Health, Models, Higher Education
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Raeann R. Hamon – Family Science Review, 2024
As middle managers in higher education, department chairs play a critical role in the university structure while operating in an ambiguous location between faculty and senior administration. This paper will take a closer look at the role of department chair, how chairs are selected and prepared for the position, what the job entails, qualities of…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences, Department Heads, Careers, Career Development
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Harvey J. Graff – Across the Disciplines, 2024
Scholarly disciplines are historical reservoirs riven with contradictions. Often unaware of their own history, the humanities lead in complications, with English departments outpacing other fields of study. Both writing and English language and literature studies exhibit long-standing omissions and conflicts. This essay explores their similarities…
Descriptors: Reading, Writing (Composition), Educational History, Humanities
Haviland, Don; Jacobs, Jenny; Alleman, Nathan F.; Allen, Cara Cliburn – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2020
This book focuses on the status and work of full-time non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) whose ranks are increasing as tenure track faculty (TTF) make up a smaller percentage of the professoriate. NTTF experience highly uneven and conditional access to collegiality, are often excluded from decision-making spaces, and receive limited respect from…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Nontenured Faculty, Inclusion, Governance
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Gatley, Jane – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
R. S. Peters and a small group of contemporaries set the foundations for analytic philosophy of education in the 1960s, a field which continues to this day. This article asks about the value of analytic philosophy of education today, and proposes alterations to its initial aims and methods to make its value clearer. I outline some critiques of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Criticism, Philosophy, Social Attitudes
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Beddoes, Kacey; Schimpf, Corey – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
The role and influence of department heads on women in academia is understudied and weakly conceptualized. This article expounds on prior work, which identified limitations of department head literature, to put forth three problematic discourses that run through much of the department head research: the "discourse of fairness," the…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Sex Fairness
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Núñez, Anne-Marie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Examining how departments in Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) construct supportive organizational cultures can offer insights on how other institutions can also build inclusive environments to promote minoritized student success, even in less diverse science fields. Studying the organizational behavior of HSI computer science departments…
Descriptors: School Culture, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Computer Science Education
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Facchini, Carla; Fia, Magali – Higher Education Policy, 2021
New public management (NPM) has dominated the reforms in the higher education sector and the academic discussion on how universities should be governed since the 1980s. Besides, the introduction of accountability and efficiency measures in the form of performance measurement and pay-for-performance scheme, a key debated aspect of NPM is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Governance
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Blackwell, William H.; Lilly, Juliana D. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2022
Administrators face multiple challenges in effectively managing special education programs and services. These challenges include communication failures between stakeholders, inconsistency in implementing policies, difficulty in collaborating with multiple personnel throughout a district, and inefficiencies in implementing special education…
Descriptors: Organizational Theories, Special Education, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Administrative Organization
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Perry, John – English in Education, 2022
This article takes Margaret Meek Spencer's 1988 pamphlet "How Texts Teach What Readers Learn" to frame a discussion about the purpose of English Literature in English secondary schools. The primary data informing this article is taken from original interviews with ten Heads of English departments in English secondary schools. Henri…
Descriptors: English Literature, Foreign Countries, English Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
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