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Brian J. Bowe; Robin Blom; Lena Lazoff – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2024
The use of professional internships has long been a defining feature of journalism and mass communication programs, but the practice is also increasingly controversial for the financial burdens it places on marginalized students. This study examined accreditation reports for 120 institutions to gain a better understanding of current practices.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Journalism Education, Mass Media, Educational Assessment
Steven Hodge; Hugh Guthrie; Anne Jones; Melinda Waters – International Journal of Training Research, 2024
Tertiary education in Australia is dominated by a division between two large systems of provision: vocational education and training (VET) and higher education (HE). Over time, these tertiary education sectors have become distinct in several respects, including the way curriculum is conceived and practiced. In VET, competency-based training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Research
Baker, Dominique J.; McCloud, Laila – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
Several states, including Texas, have implemented an "excess semester credit hours (ESCH)" policy. State ESCH policies assess a fee to students at public institutions when they exceed a set number of lifetime cumulative credit hours (e.g. students with more than the 120 credit hours needed for a bachelor's degree). In this article, we…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, College Credits, Degree Requirements
Debra Evonne Thrower – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Due to recent mandates of the 2015 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Educational Policies and Accreditation Standards, social work ethics education has received considerable attention. These standards have increased the focus on ethical education requirements in bachelor's and master's curricula. However, research regarding approaches that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Social Work, Ethics, Curriculum
Bolli, Thomas; Caves, Katherine; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Students, Internship Programs, Income
Amy M. Ertwine – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
To understand retention, evaluation of guided pathways implementation is an important tool. In an effort to help students succeed, colleges often give students a specified set of core courses and a specific or even prescribed pathway to complete their general education requirements. Retention efforts are always a topic with administrators at…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Design
Komal Kamran; Awais Ahmed Riaz Awan – Journal of International Students, 2024
This study explores the academic and social experience of international students in colleges in the United States of America. Specifically, the study focuses on colleges with a high percentage of international students as they represent diverse cultural backgrounds and contribute significantly to the campus environment. Data were collected from 30…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Experience, Academic Achievement
Cooper, Mary L.; Cheung, Mee-Shew; Gartland, Myles P. – Journal of Education for Business, 2020
This study examines which factors influence the number of master's programs being offered to complete the 150-hour accounting curriculum requirement and whether there is a link among the number of programs, accounting program performance, and market orientation. Survey responses were analyzed from 201 business school deans and accounting chairs…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Graduate Study, Degree Requirements
Miller, Ryan A.; Holliday-Millard, Paul – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
For the past four decades, predominantly white colleges and universities throughout the United States have adopted diversity curricular requirements. While evidence suggests these courses yield positive outcomes for students, scholars have less often addressed the process of curricular change toward creating the requirements. Further, colleges…
Descriptors: Diversity, Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Organizational Culture
Universities UK, 2022
Maintaining the value of a degree is a priority for universities. During the pandemic, many universities had to put measures in place to make sure students were not unfairly disadvantaged by changes to their course. This statement details the Universities UK members' commitment to returning to pre-pandemic levels of firsts and 2:1s awarded in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Classification, Outcomes of Education
Bas T. Agricola; Fiona Veraa; Mieke van Diepen; Louise Elffers – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students' participation in a preacademic program and the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Student Experience
Alexander Karl Ferdinand Loder – Cogent Education, 2024
Dropout of university students can have negative consequences for students' futures as well as for university income. University systems with a multiple enrollment policy may offer students benefits, such as a second chance to graduate instead of dropping out. However, little is known about the outcome constellations (graduation, dropout) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research
Heather L. Katz – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
How can information literacy (IL) skills be improved during one semester? The proliferation of information disorders - fabricated stories, misleading content, clickbait - requires skills beyond using a fake-news checklist. Students in an introductory political science course were asked to analyze a news story every week as a course objective to…
Descriptors: College Students, United States Government (Course), Information Literacy, Assignments
David William Stoten – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
The PhD by retrospective published work remains an under-researched area within doctoral education. Introduced into the United Kingdom (UK) in 1966, this variant of PhD is one of several models of doctoral qualification that exist across the globe that include published research in the final submission. Although the retrospective model is an…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Research
Steinman, Olivia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
First adopted in 1951, the Doctor of Music, or Doctor of Musical Arts degree, has been on campuses across America for nearly 70 years now. Since its inception, the main concern surrounding the education of the performer has been how best to develop and serve the artistic needs of the musician while maintaining the level of high scholastic…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Music Education, Musicians, Academic Achievement