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Michaela Willis; Kimberly Grieve; Gary Daynes – New Directions for Student Services, 2024
Doing more with less is a continual dynamic faced by leaders in higher education, particularly within small institutions where resources can be scarce, and professionals often are wearing multiple hats. The ability to prioritize programs and services in student affairs rises to the forefront of our work every day. As a result, leaders often need…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Evaluation, School Culture, Small Colleges
Stacey Horn Nichols – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although higher education institutions may be described as forward-thinking in areas such as research, their teaching practices are often perceived as lacking in innovation. This disjunction has led educators, researchers, and policymakers to question the role and implementation of change in higher education contexts and the factors that affect…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Sherry, Jesse; Tivona, Shannon – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to use life cycle assessment to determine the environmental impact of food purchases at a small, liberal arts college. The authors also use the results to develop a simple decision-making tool for college and university dining services administrators, attempting to make their food purchases more sustainable.…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Food Service, Decision Making, Sustainability
Aaron Meis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to understand how strategy and strategic decision-making have contributed to financial strength at those small, private, non-profit, less-selective, tuition-dependent institutions with small endowments that have established financial stability. Interviews were conducted of participants at three institutions, including…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Decision Making, Small Colleges, Private Colleges
Turcio, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Regional, private colleges that are heavily reliant on revenue from traditional, undergraduate students are facing mounting challenges in fulfilling their enrollment targets in an increasingly competitive educational landscape (Lederman, 2019). This scenario has placed a significant strain on the marketing function of these institutions, requiring…
Descriptors: Marketing, Liberal Arts, Small Colleges, College Admission
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Traci Freeman; Steve Getty – Writing Center Journal, 2024
In this exploratory study, we took as our point of departure Lori Salem's (2016) call to investigate the factors that affect students' decisions to visit the writing center. Rather than exploring student decision-making through a sociological lens, as Salem does, we drew on insights from social psychology to understand students' motivations. We…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Help Seeking, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
Carla Dirkschneider – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Hospital-affiliated higher education institutions face a multitude of challenges and uncertainties, from a decline in enrollment to financial instabilities to large-scale health-system mergers. These higher education organizations must adapt in order to overcome challenges and remain sustainable in the future. Previous research was limited…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Decision Making, Small Colleges, College Presidents
Richard J. Loose – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence the use of institutional assessment in support of student outcomes at four-year public institutions of higher education. This study focused on small institutions, defined as having enrollment below that of the median value, across the nation. An electronic survey was sent to chief…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Data Use, Decision Making, Influences
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Lango, Michael; Kortegast, Carrie – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2023
This multiple-case study sought to understand how senior student affairs officers engaged in crisis leadership and decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic's first year. Five themes emerged from the research: (a) influence of institutional structure and culture on decisions, (b) uniqueness of COVID crisis decision making, (c) engagement and…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Leadership
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Jennifer Y. Abbott; Jordin Clark; James Proszek – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2024
With increasing threats to democracy, we call for communication educators to renew and re-examine their commitment to advancing civic engagement in the basic course. Given recent scholarly criticism that civic engagement pedagogies falsely present democratic practice as neutral or apolitical and reinforce the status quo, we set an agenda for basic…
Descriptors: Communications, Teaching Methods, Citizen Participation, Assignments
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Henderson, Holly – Educational Review, 2023
The decision of whether and where to attend higher education is an inherently geographical decision. Amongst the structural inequalities that determine how decisions about higher education are made are a number of complex socio-spatial factors ranging from proximity of higher education institution to place of residence and availability of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Mobility, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Suggs, David Welch, Jr.; May-Trifiletti, Jennifer; Hearn, James C. – Council of Independent Colleges, 2020
The popular image of college football is that of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I programs whose nationally known student athletes participate in televised bowl games before being drafted by the National Football League (sometimes entering the draft before finishing college). The salaries of Division I team coaches can…
Descriptors: Team Sports, College Athletics, Private Colleges, Small Colleges
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Aubrey Scheopner Torres; Lisa Andries D'Souza – Current Issues in Education, 2024
This qualitative study aims to provide insight into why teacher candidates, interested in pursuing K-12 teaching, made the decision to leave their traditional teacher preparation programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers utilized sociocultural theory as the framework to ground the research. The study finds the educational disruption…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Elizabeth A. Postlewaite – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The percentage of full-time college students decreased by 7% in the United States between 2010 and 2018. Modern university leaders confront difficult decisions regarding their institutions' future because of financial challenges related to reduced tuition revenue. Grounded in the theory of diffusion of innovations and the balanced scorecard, the…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Web Sites, Strategic Planning
Korie Munley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
To continue to meet the changing needs of students and the evolving higher education environment, further exploration into the viability of an online career development course was needed. The purpose of this post-positivist, quantitative, quasi-experimental design study was to examine the effectiveness of an online career development course versus…
Descriptors: Career Development, Online Courses, Career Choice, Decision Making
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