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Liza Lagman Sperl – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Given the increasing number of community college students aspiring to complete a bachelor's degree and the decrease in traditional college-bound high school graduates universities have started to focus their attention on the recruitment and retention of transfer students. The institution in this study is a large public research institution located…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Transfer Students, Urban Universities, Public Colleges
IkpoBari Dumletam Senewo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Persistence of first-year, full-time students toward graduation at U.S. community colleges poses concerns for administrators, faculty, and policymakers. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of faculty members teaching a college success seminar at an urban multicampus community college on what impedes or supports the persistence…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Faculty, First Year Seminars, Academic Persistence
Hodge-Zickerman, Angie; Rech, Janice; Johnson, Kelly Gomez; Grandgenett, Neal – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
A metropolitan university, has had a productive journey in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), which eventually led to a campus STEM priority, endowed STEM Community Chairs, an increase in external grants, disciplinary degree pathways for high school teachers and even a Citywide STEM Ecosystem organization. Much of this…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, STEM Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change
Salwa Ismail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Universities consist of students, faculty and staff, interacting through multiple layers of organization and on a variety of time scales. They are complex adaptive systems (CAS) yet the bulk of scholarship on higher education analyzes them using conventional social science methods, with little work that tries to understand them using complexity…
Descriptors: Universities, Systems Approach, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Rural Colleges
Carter, Aidan; Absalom, Matt – The EUROCALL Review, 2023
This article discusses a pilot project aimed at giving tertiary students a wider repertoire of resources to use in language learning, with a particular focus on Italian. This project responds to the exponential increase in and access to online data and the potential value such data represent for students studying additional languages at tertiary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Compton, Martin; Gilmour, Alison – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
This reflection centres on how existing tensions in academic development work were magnified and challenged as competing imperatives sought to (re)define the roles of academic developers at a UK university during the pandemic in 2020. In a situation of heightened anxiety amongst all stakeholders, issues relating to professional agency, expertise,…
Descriptors: Altruism, Teaching Methods, Expertise, Foreign Countries
LaSondra Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study, which was conducted at a large, urban research institution in the Midwestern region of the United States, explored the influence of faculty support on first-time master's student satisfaction in graduate school. Alexander Astin's (1993) Inputs, Environment, Outputs (I-E-O) Model was used to guide the study. Data were collected…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Dayna O. H. Walker; Verónica Caridad Rabelo; Oscar Jerome Stewart; Drew N. Herbert – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To identify social determinants of mental health embedded within college students' living and learning conditions. Participants: Participants included 215 mostly undergraduate (95%) business students at a diverse, urban west coast public university (48% women; mean age 24). Methods: Participants completed an online self-report survey…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Mental Health, Trauma, Economic Factors
Quitoras, Mark Cleeford Layugan; Abuso, Julian E. – Pedagogical Research, 2021
Sustainable research culture is impetus for the realization of educational institution's mission and vision. Academic leaders such as president, dean, and research director must act into power and think of strategy and programs so that their faculty members will be inspired to conduct research and publication. This study aims to discover the best…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Strategic Planning, Research Administration, Faculty Publishing
Caret, Robert L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2019
The author has 25 years of experience in higher education leadership, overseeing two campuses and two university systems. He has maintained a strong connection to the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), both philosophically and in practical terms. In this article, the author discusses his experience and feelings on social…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation
Liu, Cui – Education and Urban Society, 2019
The university-city relations are changing along with the engagement of universities in public service beyond teaching and research and the dependence of cities on networks rather than enclosure to promote urban competitiveness. Taking China as an example, this article discusses the challenges and tensions of university-city interaction in the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Urban Universities, Municipalities, Foreign Countries
Sweetman, Leah; Wassel, Bobby; Belt, Stephen M.; Sokol, Bryan W. – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
The Catholic, Jesuit inspired mission of Saint Louis University (SLU) -- "the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of God and for the service of humanity" -- firmly places serving humanity in line with the institution's goal for academic excellence. Importantly, service in the tradition of Catholic, Jesuit education is embedded in a…
Descriptors: Religious Colleges, Urban Universities, Catholics, Service Learning
Kim, Min Kyu; Kim, So Mi – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
Despite the importance of preparing students to write successfully in their academic and professional careers, instructors often struggle to sustain student focus on the complex and demanding nature of the writing process. In response, we conducted a pilot project at a university located in urban Los Angeles using a wiki-enhanced and blended…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Integration, Blended Learning
Shaviro, Charles; Gallagher, Laird; Dvorkin, Eli – Center for an Urban Future, 2020
Part of our ongoing research on how to create a more inclusive economy in NYC, this data brief shows that CUNY has made crucial progress in producing STEM grads. Tapping this talent pool, and making further gains in the years ahead, will be key to closing the opportunity gap for tech careers. [Funding for this report was provided by BNY Mellon.]
Descriptors: Urban Universities, College Graduates, STEM Education, Tech Prep
Anna E. Mason; Jason L. G. Braasch; Daphne Greenberg; Erica D. Kessler; Laura K. Allen; Danielle S. McNamara – Reading Psychology, 2023
This study examined the extent to which prior beliefs and reading instructions impacted elements of a reader's mental representation of multiple texts. College students' beliefs about childhood vaccinations were assessed before reading two anti-vaccine and two pro-vaccine texts. Participants in the experimental condition read for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Misconceptions, Beliefs, Accuracy