In the summer of 2018 at a mid-level northwestern university, a new university president transitioned into the role of the institutional leader. The strategic restructuring began shortly after the President was hired. The nature of change itself within an institution can be challenging, for senior leaders who remained at the institution after the…

There is a wide-spread perception that universities reorganise their academic units frequently, although there is little beyond anecdote to support this. Similarly, the literature contains some speculation about what affects the success of such efforts, but there is almost no data to support various views. This study assesses the perceptions of…

Universitas Pembangunan Nasional "Veteran" Jawa Timur (UPNVJT) is a university with state defense education's characters. In practice, those character did not cover the academic field as a whole. Through the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the research carried out the process of internalizing state defense values in thesis writing as a…

In this paper, six interviews with course coordinators from two mathematics departments are analysed to better understand the relationship between course coordination and local data in the Precalculus to Calculus 2 sequence with respect to online grading platforms. We highlight several potential coordinator decisions and present illustrative…

This resource from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center provides an overview of the process that the Nevada Department of Education used to refine the review process for the adoption of high-quality instructional materials. This refined process gives all districts, regardless of size or type, a choice of instructional materials that are…

The outbreak of COVID-19 was a major disruption to higher education and marketing education across the globe. COVID-19 impacted not only our campuses, but also how we teach and our students. As marketing academicians, we must respond to the educational risk posed to COVID-19 to facilitate educational success in the future. We conducted an…

This study explores the experiences of department heads at Haramaya University, Ethiopia with regard to academic leadership perceptions and practices. Qualitative research approach with phenomenological strategy was employed in this study. Five department heads were selected using purposive sampling techniques. Semistructured interview,…

This study investigates user satisfaction with e-learning systems in higher education institutions, examining the perspectives of students, lecturers, and elearning officers and heads of the department of Information Technology as key informants. A total of 375 student respondents from Diploma, Bachelor, and Masters levels, 51 lecturers, and 15…

This paper is based on an argument that the disruption of school spaces can demerit the myth that Mathematics is difficult and a struggle for learners in some contexts. Combining spatial theories and the phenomenon of disruption, the paper reports from a qualitative research project that analyzed the dynamics of space and place in South African…

Student athlete support services play a vital role in student athlete success at university athletic departments across the country. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) requires that Division-I (D-I) institutions provide student athletes with academic advising, mentoring, tutoring, and life skills programs (Gerstner, 2017) to help…

This comparative case study explored the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at two of North Carolina's Global Ready elementary schools. The following research questions guided the study: 1) How do educators and affiliates of Global Ready elementary schools perceive global education, specifically Education for Sustainable…

The aim of this interpretative study was to find out how higher education administrators thought about emotional competence and what emotional competence ideas and skills they thought were essential for success. Specifically, the aim of this study was to get a better understanding of how administrators in departments of higher education may use…

The concept of innovation in the administrative processes of higher education institutions (HEIs) remains topical due to the continuous call on providers of higher education to develop new ideas and practices that are aimed at meeting the growing needs of students and other interest groups. Focusing on the transformational leadership theory as the…

Purpose: Leadership styles and school performance in educational sector are correlated in the sense that to improve the quality of education, there is a great need to develop the professional capabilities of school leaders-- the headmaster, head teachers and department heads, who are responsible for managing school resources effectively and…

In the study reported on here, we investigated the effectiveness of principal leadership practices in secondary schools in Niger State, Nigeria. Surveys were conducted with 154 principals, 269 heads of the department and 25 members of staff from the Secondary Education Board in Niger State. The findings indicate that the extent of principal…