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Cruz Paul, Theresa Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The lack of first-generation student (FGS) involvement in high-impact practices (HIPs) is critical in addressing college students' social mobility and economic equity in the 21st century. Participation in HIPs can lead to academic, personal, and professional gains resulting in more competitive applications for future employment and graduate…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Social Bias, Intervention, College Faculty
Campbell, Corbin M. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
"Great College Teaching" highlights where and how exemplary teaching is practiced in US higher education and charts a course for cultivating teaching improvement throughout all types of institutions. As Corbin M. Campbell reveals in this incisive work, although teaching quality is rarely reflected in college rankings such as those…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Competencies
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Karen E. Singer-Freeman; Kristi Verbeke – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
We share a case study on our use of three reflective questions to demonstrate ways in which simple questions can be coded to reveal rich evidence of impact and engagement. At the end of a three-hour inclusive teaching practices workshop for 23 faculty and administrators from a single science department, 22 participants completed an anonymous…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Science Departments, Teacher Workshops
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Brancaccio-Taras, Loretta; Awong-Taylor, Judy; Linden, Monica; Marley, Kate; Reiness, C. Gary; Uzman, J. Akif – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
In an attempt to redesign science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments to be more inclusive of all student populations, institutions of higher learning are reviewing their programs, policies, and the ways they engage students. The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) has been working with STEM…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, STEM Education, Diversity, Equal Education
Nina Marie McCune – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Baton Rouge Community College, a federally designated Predominantly Black Institution, offers a variety of degree programs that require successful completion of general education courses. Institutionally generated, racially disaggregated data show that fewer Black students successfully completed general education courses than White students, at a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Community College Students, Black Colleges, General Education
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Johnson, Royel M., Ed.; Anya, Uju, Ed.; Garces, Liliana M., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2022
The current socio-political moment--rife with racial tensions and overt bigotry--has exacerbated longstanding racial inequities in higher education. While educational scholars have developed conceptual tools and offered data-informed recommendations for rooting out racism in campus policies and practices, this work is largely inaccessible to the…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Racial Differences, Higher Education
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Achinewhu, Chinuru Chituru; Gborogbosi, Aalonebari Joe Gabriel – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
International law obligates States to recognize the right of citizens to education and that they should make higher education accessible to all on the basis of capacity. This obligation reinforces the significant place of education in shaping and transforming the community. Education can redefine economic, cultural and social connections. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Elrod, Susan; Whitehead, Lorne; Huber, Mary Taylor – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
Colleges and universities are under increasing pressure to focus on diversity and inclusion to increase access, close equity gaps, and increase completion rates. Reaching these goals--and others central to institutional missions--requires collective efforts by faculty, staff, administrators, and students. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Mission, Educational Improvement, Scholarship
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Dolan, Erin L.; Borrero, Michelle; Callis-Duehl, Kristine; Chen Musgrove, Miranda M.; de Lima, Joelyn; Ero-Tolliver, Isi; Gerhart, Laci M.; Goodwin, Emma C.; Hamilton, Lindsey R.; Henry, Meredith A.; Herrera, Jose; Huot, Bethany; Kiser, Stacey; Ko, Melissa E.; Kravec, Marcy E.; Lee, Mark; Limeri, Lisa B.; Peffer, Melanie E.; Pires, Debra; Ramirez Lugo, Juan S.; Sharp, Starlette M.; Suarez, Nicole A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The 2019 Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference (UBER GRC), titled "Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education," brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working to identify, promote, and understand widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching, learning, and success…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Evidence Based Practice
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Butterfield, Anthony; McCormick, Alon; Farrell, Stephanie – Chemical Engineering Education, 2018
Despite recent advances in LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) equality in the United States and in many countries around the globe, LGBTQ+ students on college campuses still experience bias, hostility and discrimination. Engineering departments on campus in particular have been slower than other departments to respond to…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Inclusion, Engineering Education, College Students
Altose, Aaron J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study investigated how community colleges that have been nationally recognized for their success create and nurture environments to use data effectively. This kind of data use has been described as developing and sustaining a culture of evidence or a culture of inquiry. However, the exact definitions of culture of evidence and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Excellence in Education, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis
Association of American Universities, 2017
"Essential Questions & Data Sources for Continuous Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning" is intended to be a useful resource for the individuals and institutions who work together to help foster continuous improvement of undergraduate STEM education. Informed by the broad literature on post-secondary STEM…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, STEM Education, College Instruction, College Faculty
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Macdonald, R. Heather; Beane, Rachel J.; Baer, Eric M. D.; Eddy, Pamela L.; Emerson, Norlene R.; Hodder, Jan; Iverson, Ellen R.; McDaris, John R.; O'Connell, Kristin; Ormand, Carol J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
Faculty play an important role in attracting students to the geosciences, helping them to thrive in geoscience programs, and preparing them for careers. Thus, faculty have the responsibility to work toward broadening participation in the geosciences by implementing equitable and inclusive practices in their teaching and their programs. Faculty…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Allan, Julie – Education Inquiry, 2014
This article considers the place of theory within education in two contexts -- Sweden and the UK -- and advances the argument that both governments and academics themselves have contributed to a 'theoryless' education. Examples are offered from the fate of education science in Sweden and, in the UK, from responses to the Research Excellence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Government Role, Teacher Role
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Rosenberg, Mark B., Ed.; Hilton, Margaret L., Ed.; Dibner, Kenne A., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2018
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals generate a stream of scientific discoveries and technological innovations that fuel job creation and national economic growth. Ensuring a robust supply of these professionals is critical for sustaining growth and creating jobs growth at a time of intense global competition.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Progress Monitoring, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education