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Robert A. Braswell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived work experiences of Title IX Investigators as they navigate their responsibilities amongst the continuous changes to Title IX policies and procedures. The lived work experiences of 12 Title IX investigators were collected through in-depth one-on-one interviews to provide knowledge…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Investigations
Mark Antony Addison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This general qualitative research utilized semi-structured interviews of eight (8) experienced Title IX investigators from institutions of higher education (IHEs) in Massachusetts to understand federal Title IX regulatory compliance burdens. The rate of occurrence of sexual assault and harassment, as forms of sex discrimination, at IHEs remain…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Gender Discrimination
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Tomic, Slobodan; Radeljic, Branislav – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Scholars have documented a tendency of (semi-)authoritarian regimes to undermine university autonomy, mainly through organizational (de jure) changes. This paper presents a case study of a publicly triggered plagiarism investigation by the University of Belgrade into the doctoral thesis of the Serbian Minister of Finance, one of the key members of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plagiarism, Investigations, Doctoral Dissertations
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
If colleges provide inaccurate or misleading information about, for example, their students' ability to transfer course credits to another college or qualify for a specific certification after graduation, students may have difficulty completing their degree, finding a job in their field, or paying back their student loans. Education is responsible…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Government, Public Agencies, Compliance (Legal)
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Zukas, Miriam; Malcolm, Janice – Studies in Continuing Education, 2019
Academic work is changing fast, as is the work of other professionals, because of challenges such as accountability and regulations frameworks and globalised academic markets. Such changes also have consequences for everyday academic practice and learning. This paper seeks to explore some of the ways in which academic work is changing by opening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Case Studies, Universities
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2023
This Semiannual Report presents the activities and accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (OIG) from April 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023. The report highlights audits, investigations, and related work issued during this time frame and includes summary tables containing statistical and other data as…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Aid, Pandemics, Federal Legislation
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Richards, Tara N.; Gillespie, Lane Kirkland; Claxton, Taylor – Journal of School Violence, 2021
A paucity of studies has examined incidents of sexual misconduct reported to Title IX coordinators at institutions of higher education (IHEs) or examined differences across types of IHEs. We used 2018 data from incidents of sexual misconduct (N = 3,829) reported to Title IX coordinators at IHEs in New York (N = 209) to examine the context,…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Violence, Incidence
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Yurtseven, Nihal – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Professional development is an ongoing process in which teachers review their teaching practices and learn how to respond to their students' needs. To make the professional development process more effective, we need to define the identity of a teacher correctly and clarify the perspective about teachers' professional development. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Qualitative Research
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Harper, Lynsey R.; Downie, J. Roger; Muir, Martin; White, Stewart A. – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
The benefits of field courses for biological science students are well established, but field courses also have limitations: they are generally too brief to allow significant research and they are staff-designed and led, limiting the development of student autonomy. In contrast, the value of student-organised field expeditions has been little…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Focus Groups, Higher Education
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Kasmaee, Roya Babaee; Nadi, Mohammad Ali; Shahtalebi, Badri – International Education Studies, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study and identify the effective components of higher education marketing and providing a marketing model for Iranian higher education private sector institutions. Design/methodology/approach: This study is a qualitative research. For identifying the effective components of higher education marketing and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Investigations, Private Education, Institutional Advancement
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Heft, Ilea E.; Scharff, Lauren F. V. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
This project evaluated the effectiveness of a course design within an upper-level biology course that incorporated what prior scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research has suggested to be best practices for developing critical thinking skills while also managing the grading load on the instructor. These efforts centered on the…
Descriptors: Habit Formation, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Best Practices
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Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely; Vigil, Darsella – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
This chapter investigates the institutionalization of support for undocumented students across states that either extend or deny in-state resident tuition (ISRT) benefits. In their review, the authors highlight promising practices.
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Cameron, Leanne – Journal of Learning Design, 2017
This paper reports on the learning designs, teaching methods and activities most commonly employed within the disciplines in six universities in Australia. The study sought to establish if there were significant differences between the disciplines in learning designs, teaching methods and teaching activities in the current Australian context, as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Universities, Learner Engagement
Deel, Gary Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study concerns a qualitative investigation of the views toward higher education and its importance to hospitality career success among hotel professionals in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. Existing literature supported the premise that education may be important to professional career success in several different ways, and that values concerning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hospitality Occupations, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
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Sclater, Madeleine – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2016
This article uses published research to explore how Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) can help to sustain learning communities to engage in creative exploration and open investigation. It then draws on this research to ask: how could we use TEL to support pedagogies of socio-ecological sustainability in the Art and Design education community?…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Sustainability, Communities of Practice
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