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Faudree, Jill – PRIMUS, 2021
We describe how one department moved from skepticism to wide-spread embrace of coordinated Calculus I. Data played a crucial role in this process. Details of this journey, including successful strategies and missteps, may provide insight and perspective to other departments starting on, or immersed in, similar transformational adventures.
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Departments, Data Use
Bryan Sarandrea – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand the extent to which novice department leaders believe they have been supported in their roles. Previous research has suggested that department leaders have unique needs due to the lack of clarity in their roles and responsibilities. The literature further reflected the inconsistent support provided to…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Administrator Role, Novices, Mentors
Elina I. Mäkinen; Eliza D. Evans; Daniel A. McFarland – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
While interdisciplinarity has been promoted in universities for decades, research suggests that untenured faculty struggle to receive recognition for their interdisciplinary research. Informed by the microfoundations of institutional theory and discursive legitimation, we examine how members of academic departments participate in the legitimation…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion
Joshua Wilkey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examines perceptions of student learning outcomes assessment by Humanities faculty members at a regional comprehensive university. Participants from History, English, and Philosophy and Religion departments were interviewed about their perceptions of assessment. The results were that Humanities faculty members hold both positive and…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, College Faculty, Outcomes of Education, Student Evaluation
Kerry Lynn Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
More than 40 years ago, Hicks and Ridley (1979) asserted the need for Black Studies in psychology across American colleges and universities. Their study is one of few, if not the only, that has examined the frequency and types of course offerings in Black Psychology. Thus, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the current state of Black…
Descriptors: Psychology, Course Descriptions, Black Studies, Course Evaluation
Tiaira J. Porter-Beall – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Women of Color faculty remain underrepresented across all fields of postsecondary science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Although extant literature describes the collective institutional-level experiences of Women of Color faculty, an effort to understand the departmental-level experiences and contextually how the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Medicine, Educational Environment, College Faculty
Joya Misra; Ethel L. Mickey; Ember Skye Kanelee; Laurel Smith-Doerr – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Climate studies that measure equity and inclusion among faculty reveal widespread gender and race disparities in higher education. The chilly departmental climate that women and faculty of color experience is typically measured through university-wide surveys. Although inclusion plays out at the department level, research rarely focuses on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Departments, STEM Education, Educational Environment
Laura J. Ahlstrom; Carlos J. Asarta; Cynthia Harter – Journal of Education for Business, 2024
This study uses data from the sixth national quinquennial survey on teaching and assessment methods in economics, also known as the "chalk and talk" survey, to examine, for the first time, how instructor, departmental, and institutional characteristics may contribute to the use of references to diversity, inclusion, and gender issues in…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Teaching Methods, Inclusion, Diversity
Kai Jun Chew; Holly M. Matusovich – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Tests are commonly and heavily used in fundamental engineering courses (FECs) to assess student learning of concepts. With existing literature presenting mixed benefits and disadvantages of testing to students' motivation to learn and documenting widely alternative assessments, the lack of questioning of heavy and common test usage…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Test Use, Case Studies, Student Motivation
Pamela Martínez Oquendo; Morgan D. Vogel; Christine E. Cutucache – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Mentoring is a common practice in higher education institutions and scientific fields. Undergraduates approach faculty members who are working on topics that match their research interests. We conducted a study to compile a qualitative synthesis of research on the mentorship experience of undergraduate science students with faculty mentors. We…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Sciences
Tulli Ariyaratne; Valarie Akerson – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
Several Nature of Science (NOS) studies have been conducted on different categories of professionals and different age groups. Even though NOS is considered a structural facet of scientific literacy, not much research has been conducted on the NOS ideas of scientists and science professionals. This crosssectional study investigated the nature of…
Descriptors: Scientists, Chemistry, Scientific Principles, Research Universities
González Gómez, Sara – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2019
The transformation of the model of university organization, with the passage of the traditional system of chairs to departmental, began in Spain in the mid-sixties. The educational policy of the regime, taking as reference foreign models such as the German or Anglo-Saxon, introduces via regulations, which are not real and operative, the bases of…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Universities
Jonathan Lord – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative multi-case research study was to analyze the perceptions of academic leaders (faculty [and] department heads) within subcultures (academic units) on a community college campus. A subculture is a subdivision of a macro-culture that formed through differentiation. Differentiation, led to the development of subgroups…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Leaders, Attitudes, Departments
Andrew Neuendorf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how faculty chairs at a large, Midwestern community college understand and engage with the assessment of student learning outcomes within academic programs. This study was informed by two conceptual paradigms of assessment: accountability and improvement. Sensemaking was used as a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Student Evaluation, Accountability
Salifu, Inusah – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2023
This research investigated followers' expectations of their heads of departments (HoDs) and how they felt about the fulfilment of the expectations within the context of Ghanaian higher education. It further explored the nature of the challenges the HoDs faced as they tried to meet followers' expectations. The research used a phenomenological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Department Heads, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty