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Maria Manta Conroy; Becky Mansfield; Elena Irwin; Gina Jaquet; Gregory Hitzhusen; Jeremy Brooks – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Integrating sustainability into university curricula brings diverse challenges and conflicts as separate units vie for ownership of courses and topics. This case study presents a six dimensions sustainability framework developed at The Ohio State University to organize curricula under an inclusive strategy. Design/methodology/approach: An…
Descriptors: Sustainability, College Curriculum, State Universities, Curriculum Design
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Meier, Heidi Hylton; Smith, Deborah Drummond – Accounting Education, 2016
This paper is motivated by recommendations from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Pathways Commission, and NAFSA: Association of International Educators to increase global exposure in the accounting curriculum. Some schools have responded to these demands by offering short-duration, faculty-led, study abroad…
Descriptors: Accounting, Global Approach, Business Administration Education, Study Abroad
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Doss, Christopher Joseph; Kaufman, Julia H.; Bozick, Robert – RAND Corporation, 2019
"Middle-skills" jobs require more education and training than that provided by a high school diploma but less education and training than a four-year college degree. Employers struggle to find workers with the needed combination of knowledge and skills to fill middle-skills jobs; this search for workers is particularly pertinent to the…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, STEM Education, Skill Development, Job Skills
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Bierer, S. Beth; Prayson, Richard A.; Dannefer, Elaine F. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
This study used variables proposed in social cognitive career theory (SCCT) to focus the evaluation of a research curriculum at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University (CCLCM). Eight cohorts of CCLCM medical students completed a web-based version of the six-scale Clinical Research Appraisal…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Self Efficacy, Medical Research, Vocational Interests
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Koontz, T. M.; Plank, K. M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2011
Many instructors strive to encourage student reading outside of class and active learning in class. One pedagogical tool, structured reading questions, can help do both. Using examples from question sets across six courses, the authors illustrate how reading questions can help students achieve the six active-learning principles described by…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Active Learning, Scholarship, Reading
Evenbeck, Scott E.; Jackson, Barbara; Smith, Maggy; Ward, Dorothy – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2010
Organizing for Student Success draws on data from more than 50 institutions to provide insight into how university colleges are organized, the initiatives they house, and the practices in place to ensure their effectiveness. Twenty case studies from 15 different campuses offer an in-depth understanding of institutional practice. Ultimately,…
Descriptors: Models, College Programs, Success, Institutional Characteristics