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Seyfried, Markus; Reith, Florian – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
The paper investigates quality management in teaching and learning in higher education institutions from a principal-agent perspective. Based on data gained from semi-structured interviews and from a nation-wide survey with quality managers of German higher education institutions, the study shows how quality managers position themselves in…
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Relationship
Brandon Lewis Murray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While university department heads are integral to the operation and culture of higher education institutions, they often experience little training or support to fulfill their complex and multifaceted role. At the same time, there is limited research on how heads come to understand their work or how such understandings shape their behavior. In…
Descriptors: Universities, Department Heads, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Diana Sachmpazidi; Chandra Turpen; Jayna Petrella; Robert P. Dalka; Fatima N. Abdurrahman – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Leaders, policymakers, and researchers have called attention to the need to improve critical aspects of physics programs, from teaching and pedagogy to making physics more diverse and equitable. As such programmatic changes are challenging and require a second-order change to be effective, many physics faculty responsible for carrying them out are…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Change, College Faculty
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Malji, Andrea; Phan, Ngoc – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Interdisciplinary research provides new insight beyond a singular epistemological and methodological framework. Such collaboration can help increase readership outside a narrow disciplinary angle. Likewise, working with scholars outside one's field can help address new questions using a multidimensional approach. However, working within an…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Departments, College Faculty, Faculty Workload
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Kallenberg, Ton – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Changes, improvements and innovations in university organisations regularly end up in sluggish processes and get stuck 'somewhere' in the organisation. It is argued that cooperation and mutual influencing of work processes between academic and professional employees of different departments can have a positive effect on these innovations. Because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, School Personnel, College Faculty
Tyler, John; Mulvey, Patrick; Nicholson, Starr – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2020
The majority (67%) of degree-granting physics departments in the United States grant a bachelor's degree as their highest degree. There are 84 departments that grant astronomy bachelor's degrees. Of these departments, 39 are separate, stand-alone astronomy departments, and 45 are in departments that award both astronomy and physics degrees. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Physics, Astronomy
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Rebekah Ward; Agata Mrva-Montoya; Maggie Nolan – Australian Universities' Review, 2024
Australian academics are being squeezed from all sides, facing ever-intensifying bureaucratic expectations around research output, coupled with increased teaching commitments and mounting administrative duties. These demands are occurring in an environment where most academics are still employed under traditional arrangements whereby, notionally,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Sophie Etomes – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Higher education institutions in Cameroon have undergone a major transformation (since the 1993 reforms) with a major objective to improve on the quality of graduates. However, concerns about leaders who are central to the implementation of these reforms have not been taken seriously. We live in a,multicultural context, especially in Cameroon with…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Sustainability, Teacher Motivation, Department Heads
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Grajdura, Sarah; Niemeier, Deb – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2023
Addressing societal issues in civil and environmental engineering increasingly requires skills in data science and programming. To date, there is not much known about the extent students are learning these skills in current civil and environmental engineering curricula. We conducted a survey of accredited civil and environmental engineering…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Social Problems, Programming Languages
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Kaweesi, Edward Silvestre – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This paper posits that the foundations of the teaching of political theory at Makerere University College obtain from British and American hegemony. The hegemonic tendencies are exemplified by the content of what was taught as political theory, the nature of the teaching staff in the Department of Political Science -- the country of origin, the…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Political Science
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Marzocchi, Alison S.; Soto, Roberto C. – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2023
Active learning is becoming more widely accepted in mathematics as a superior teaching method for student learning and, as a result, faculty are increasingly convinced of the benefits. Our study was designed to close a research gap by determining how to support mathematics faculty in transforming their instruction to active learning. We…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Yelibay, Moldir – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2021
Purpose: The study explores factors affecting workplace-mentoring relationships of young female faculty members and their department chairs. Design/methodology/approach: The author used a qualitative interview research design to answer the research questions of the study. Semi-structured interviews of ten female faculty members from Nur-Sultan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Mentors
Jason Bradford DeCristofaro – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community colleges throughout the United States have declared "global competence" as a learning objective for their students since the last decade of the 20th century. The North Carolina (NC) Community College system is no exception, as its statewide mission statement lists preparing students to be globally competent as a goal for all 58…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Department Heads, College Faculty, Music Education
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Evi Roviati; Ria Yulia Gloria; Rizki Sukma Wijaya – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
The application of effective teaching methods needs to be implemented to improve the quality of microbiology education which can empower important competencies in the current era. This study aims to analyze the application and trajectory of argumentation-based inquiry learning through the application of microbiology lectures. This research uses…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Science Education, Microbiology, Learning Trajectories
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Riffat-un-Nisa Awan; Tazeen Ather – Cogent Education, 2024
Knowledge management is one of the valuable dimensions essential for the educational institution to support teachers' performance. Therefore, the role of leaders in encouraging teachers to create and share knowledge is vital to earn a competitive advantage. This research was planned to find the relationship among leadership styles…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Leadership Role, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness
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