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Adela García-Aracil; Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga; Ester Planells-Aleixandre – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This paper analyzes students' perceptions of how teaching-learning methods influence the promotion of higher education students' social innovation competencies based on a sustainability framework. We focus our analysis on Spain using 'Spanish Universities Involvement in Social Innovation Activities' (SUISIA) data, collected in 2021. For the long…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Competence, Social Change, Innovation
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Yuniarto Mudjisusatyo; Darwin Darwin; Kisno Kisno – Cogent Education, 2024
The flexibility of managing the Independent Campus program has implications for organizational change in higher education and requires Change Management Competency (CMC) to achieve change goals. This research aims to apply the ADKAR model to create a CMC profile for study program directors. This type of research is a survey. The research sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Change Strategies, Organizational Development, Competence
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Winda Widyanty; Dian Primanita Oktasari; Sik Sumaedi; Sih Damayanti – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to develop and test a conceptual model of business students' intention to establish a start-up business that involves attitude, perceived behavioral control (PBC), entrepreneurial competence, financial access, lecture service quality, curriculum program, extracurricular activity and institutional support simultaneously.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intention, Business Administration Education, Higher Education
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Saeid Sharifi; Fatemeh Khoshnevisan – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The present study aimed recognition sociocultural competencies in social entrepreneurship of higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a qualitative content analysis technique. In order to identify and select information-rich cases, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 22 experts among the social…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cultural Context, Social Environment, Competence
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Plater, William M. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017
Higher education serves as an agent of social change that plays a significant role in the development of socially conscious and engaged students. The duty higher education has toward society, the role for-profit educational institutions play in enhancing the public good, and the prospect of making social change an element of these providers'…
Descriptors: Social Change, Civics, Higher Education, Private Colleges
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2013
In 2012, CAEL released the report "Competency-Based Degree Programs in the U.S.: Postsecondary Credentials for Measurable Student Learning and Performance," which examined the current state of competency-based postsecondary education in the U.S., profiling the various types of competency-based, or competency-focused, models that…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2012
Today the U.S. higher education system is facing a crisis regarding its perceived quality. One model for improving quality is competency-based education, in which an institution clearly defines the specific competencies expected of its graduates. A key challenge is how to help more people, particularly adults, succeed at the post¬secondary level…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Success
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Teixeira, Aurora A. C.; Davey, Todd – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play an important role in the generation of high-tech "entrepreneurial capacity". As entrepreneurship education gives greater attention to the creation of new ventures, there is an urgent need for a better understanding of the attitudes of students, potentially the entrepreneurs of the future. Logit…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Entrepreneurship, College Role, Student Attitudes
Scott, Robert W. – AGB Reports, 1980
The educational and financial health of private colleges and universities in the coming years, it is suggested, will depend on the competence of those who are chosen to serve as trustees and regents. The National Commission on Trustee Selection's 14 recommendations for improvements in the selection process are provided. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Competence, Governing Boards, Guidelines