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Leigh, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Academic advisors can have a positive impact on the progress of an increasingly diverse student population in higher education, but there is no required professional certification or educational background for academic advisors. The lack of required certification puts the onus for academic advisor training and professional development on the…
Descriptors: State Universities, State Colleges, Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers
Marice Kelly Jackson – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Faculty members play a valuable role in the reputation of higher education institutions and adult learners' academic success. It is imperative for faculty members to be adept at using the institution's learning management system to maintain their instructional materials and teach using a technological system. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Experience, Learning Management Systems, College Faculty
Merissa E. Hudson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this dissertation in practice was to explore the experiences of Gulf Coast State College faculty in the wake of Hurricane Michael, in an effort to better understand how both the storm and the institution's response shaped instruction and student success. The intent of this study was to determine if the policies and practices…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Weather, Natural Disasters, College Faculty
Sherry McCubbin Blanset – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the role of reflective practice in the development of teacher candidates during their final internship in a teacher preparation program at a state college in Southwest Florida. Grounded in Dewey's and Schon's theories on reflective practice as well as Vygotsky's social learning theories, this mixed methods explanatory…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Education Programs, Internship Programs, State Colleges
Paxton, Rebekah – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2019
On average, only about 16 percent of annual union dues paid by members in 19 Massachusetts public school districts stayed with local union chapters. The remaining 84 percent of dues revenue went directly to the state (Massachusetts Teachers Association) and national (National Education Association) union affiliates. But what about public higher…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Unions, Union Members, Fees
Jane Ellingwood – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In response to research pointing to a growing executive leadership crisis in community colleges (CCs), with too few strong candidates entering the leadership pipeline for the presidency, I focused this study on individuals already in that pipeline. My goal was to develop an understanding of their perceptions of their own roles in the pipeline and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Deans, Administrator Attitudes
James Nichols – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Wing (2010) says computational thinking (CT) is the "new literacy of the 21st century" (p. 3), but yet computational thinking does not have a widely accepted definition making it difficult to know what are its associated skills. Understanding what these skills are is important to be able to teach this new literacy. Various populations…
Descriptors: General Education, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Kerry R. Copeland – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In the field of higher education, many institutions utilize traditional leadership frameworks to achieve organizational goals, but research suggests that shared leadership strategies may have positive influences on organizational and student outcomes. Shared leadership has become a topic of increasing interest among scholars in recent years, and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Leadership, State Colleges, Participative Decision Making
Lanford, Michael – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
US colleges and universities have operated on the belief that academics need the freedom to question received wisdom, test new pedagogical methods, and produce knowledge that can be transparently shared for the public good. However, the same institutions are increasingly engaged in competition for resources through externally imposed…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Academic Freedom
Peñaredondo-Untong, Leonel – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2020
This study determined the prevailing ethical climate in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region XII and its relationship to the faculty's three mandated functions; including instruction, research and extension. The descriptive method of research utilizing the correlation analysis was used in this study. This was conducted in four SUCs in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, State Colleges, State Universities
Wall, K. Blaine – CEA Forum, 2021
Given the political and social fragmentation and incivility that currently exists in America, this paper examines existing scholarship on diversifying the American literary canon in order to increase cultural literacy and to encourage reflective and critical conversations about modern-day issues of social justice. A brief overview of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Stranger Reactions, College Faculty, Literature Appreciation, United States Literature
Bérubé, Michael – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's governor and legislature have mounted a multipronged assault on the intellectual autonomy of Florida's public colleges and universities. Florida is not alone, and Governor DeSantis' political success is already a model for other red-state governors to follow. Higher education leaders must find compelling ways to argue that the pursuit of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Public Officials, State Policy
Cristie Kedroski – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the course success rates among students at a single, associate degree-granting state college based on faculty type and instructional modality. Analyses established the probability of a passing grade based on 1) faculty type at the adjunct and tenure-line levels, 2) instructional modality at the traditional and online course…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Associate Degrees, Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness
Darby, Megan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A state college in the mid-Atlantic United States requires a music theory course for 4 of its undergraduate music programs. In the 6 years prior to this study, students had difficulty with the course, with many failing or withdrawing. Tinto's theory of student retention served as the foundation of the conceptual framework for this study, the…
Descriptors: Music Theory, Introductory Courses, Music Education, Undergraduate Students
Xu, Di; Ran, Florence Xiaotao – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021
Based on a novel data set that links college administrative information with earnings records from a state college system for both public two-year and four-year colleges, this study quantifies the impacts of exposure to different types of instructors during students' initial semester in college on their subsequent academic and labor market…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence