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Parker, Tara L.; Shakespeare, Christine G.; Quiroz-Livanis, Elena – Educational Policy, 2022
This single case study uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams Framework to understand the ways higher education policy actors at the city-, state-, and system-level used information to build coalitions and change admission standards during the remediation debate at the City University of New York. By examining what information…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Higher Education, Educational Policy, College Admission
Evans Reding, Tracie; VanWyngaarden, Kristin – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
Complex problems are being approached through collaborations that cross sectors including businesses, nonprofits, public institutions, and academia. Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods have been adopted to help manage these large collaborations, and it is useful not only for exploring the network dynamics of the collaboration as a whole, but…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Urban Universities, Institutional Cooperation
Pohl, Bernardo – Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, 2020
This chapter is a self-reflective narrative of the trials and triumphs of earning promotion and tenure at an urban university in the mid-southern United States. As such, this is an examination of the inherent spaces where leadership is received, and leadership is given during this probationary period in academia. Particular attention will be paid…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Tenure, Urban Universities
Martin, Ashley N. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the relationship between selected demographic, academic and family related factors on the persistence rate among college students attending an urban university in the southern region of the United States. Although there is no conclusive explanation for what affects persistence of first-year students nationally; increasing…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Prediction, Student Characteristics
Aitor Zuberogoitia; Monika Madinabeitia; Davydd Greenwood – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2024
The new degree in the Global Digital Humanities has been launched by the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Mondragon University on its new urban campus of Bilbao AS Fabrik. In a time of increasing urbanisation, universities must reflect on their relationship to surrounding cities and regions and develop ways to incorporate the urban and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Humanities, Technology Uses in Education
Kolisa Siqoko; Saloshna Vandeyar – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
Utilising a social constructivist lens, this study explores how students from rural areas constitute and negotiate their identities in the context of an urban South African university. Much of the research on rurality in South Africa has focused on rural areas as places, and not on the people occupying them. This qualitative study employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Undergraduate Students, Rural Population
McGee, Cormac; Schwartz, Noah; Ehrlick, Steven – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This account of practice details an ongoing approach to entrepreneurship education currently being implemented at a large urban university in Toronto, Canada. The Music Den is an entrepreneurship incubator focusing on the music industry that collaborates with start-up businesses, music projects, industry, local communities and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Urban Universities, Foreign Countries, Music
Nations, Jennifer M. – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
The size and cost of US public higher education, funded largely by government, grew continuously for nearly twenty-five years after World War II. In the late 1960s, as the nation's economic growth slowed, the question of who should pay for higher education came under fresh political scrutiny. Decades-old no-tuition policies at the University of…
Descriptors: Tuition, Educational Finance, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes
Ensmann, Suzanne; Whiteside, Aimee – Online Learning, 2022
This descriptive study offers lessons learned from students' experiences with a gamified, social media-like instructional approach in eighteen courses from spring 2021 through spring 2022. Researchers at a mid-sized university in the southeastern United States leveraged Christensen's (2011) disruptive innovation theory as a guiding framework to…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Sense of Community, Online Courses, Gamification
Tonia Reaves – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine how college undergraduates perceive the effectiveness of internships that lead to career aspirations in their major. The theoretical foundation was Super and Hall's career exploration stages of the working life model. The sample was college undergraduates from a public urban…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students
Elizabeth Farmosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The retention of high-achieving students in a university honors program is a significant challenge for academic institutions. This dissertation evaluates how well an honors college at a large, urban, public university retains students in the Honors College. The evaluation is a mixed-methods utilization-focused evaluation conducted by an internal…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, School Size, Honors Curriculum, Academic Persistence
Sara Vogel; Aman Yadav; David Phelps; Aankit Patel – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2024
To coherently integrate computing and digital technology into teacher education, stakeholders at teacher preparation institutions must grapple with a complex landscape of problems and opportunities. This paper's literature review maps that landscape into problems and opportunities that are (1) technological, (2) pedagogical, definitional (3)…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Information Technology, Computers, Teacher Education
Chelsea Gill; James Todd; Dawn Bennett; Adrian Gepp – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This article explores the interplay between perceived employability (PE), mental health, and equity group membership amongst students at a large public urban university in Australia. The article reports from a study conducted between 2017 and 2022, during which students self-assessed their PE. Differences in PE by equity group membership were…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Mental Health, Employment Potential, Public Colleges
Woolery, Sheryce – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A significant number of students enter community colleges with developmental education (DE) needs in reading, writing, and mathematics. Many of these students are typically referred to more than one level of DE courses before they can enroll in a college-level course. This has led to lower than desired success rate of DE students over the years.…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Experience, Academic Achievement, Developmental Studies Programs
Miosotis Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This retrospective quasi-experimental design research compared student achievement of students in two active learning environments. One is referred to as Student Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-Down Pedagogies (SCALE-UP), and the other is referred to as traditional classroom environments. Student final course grades of physics…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Physics, Research Universities, Urban Universities