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Can Higher Education Transition to Serve Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Missions without Sacrificing Fiscal Standing?
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Chicas-Mosier, Ana M.; Fogelman, Kaelyn J.; Peretz, Tal H. – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2023
There is social and collaborative value in a diverse student body, faculty, and staff. Despite this, universities are slow to establish evidence-based fiscal initiatives to increase representation and retention. We review inequitable financial practices in American higher education, including in endowments, tuition and annual giving, athletics,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Diversity, Equal Education, Social Justice
10 Future-Focused State Policy Actions to Transform K-12 Education
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Patrick, Susan; Truong, Natalie; Chambers, Alexis – Aurora Institute, 2020
State policymakers are in a unique position to enable the innovations in education necessary to prepare students for a rapidly changing world. Working with 8,000 educators nationwide, the Aurora Institute identified the top 10 issues to address in state policy for transforming the K-12 education system: (1) Profile of a Graduate; (2) Innovation…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change
Health Informatics as an ABET-CAC Accreditable IS Program
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Landry, Jeffrey P.; Daigle, Roy J.; Pardue, Harold; Longenecker, Herbert E., Jr.; Campbell, S. Matt – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
This paper builds on prior work defending innovative information systems programs as ABET-accreditable. A proposal for a four-year degree program in health informatics, initiated at the authors' university to combat enrollment declines and to therefore help information systems to survive and thrive, is described. The program proposal is then…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Information Science Education, Educational Innovation, Health Services
Class Act: In Alabama, Students Turn Tires and Bales of Hay into Striking Architecture for the Poor.
Stewart, Doug – Smithsonian, 2001
At the Rural Studio--an off-campus program of Auburn University--architectural students use scavenged and donated materials to create innovative houses and other buildings for poor, rural, primarily African American communities. Materials such as hay bales and old tires are recycled to create full-blown modern architecture, which also fulfills…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Building Innovation, Built Environment
Meeting the Needs of Non-Traditional Students.
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Regional Spotlight, 1974
Florida International University (FIU), The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Eagle University (Kentucky) have designed programs to meet the needs of nontraditional students. Eagle University, composed of nine universities from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Florida, extends educational opportunities to servicemen and community members of Fort…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs
Expanding the Boundaries: Continuing Education in the Community Mental Health System.
Miller, Deborah, Ed. – 1980
A National Council on Social Work Education project to develop, test, and evaluate models for continuing education in five social work education programs is described. Its aim is to demonstrate how the education and practice systems can work together, and to focus on mental health care delivery system issues as a whole. Five pilot projects in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs