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Wente, Todd J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
More and more, colleges and universities across the United States and throughout the world are relying on adjunct instructors (sometimes called casual academics or part time instructors) to teach classes in their field of expertise. Often, those classes require a blending of theory into practical application, such as in business, accounting and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adjunct Faculty, Faculty Development, Constructivism (Learning)
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Charlie Potts – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic altered the ways that college men experience, interpret, and understand their perceptions of masculinity. This qualitative, phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of 28 second- and third-year men students. Three primary themes emerged from the analysis: navigating and adjusting to change; managing social…
Descriptors: Males, COVID-19, Pandemics, Socialization
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Eric Moffa; Haley Sigler – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2024
Teacher education programs at small liberal arts colleges and universities are among the most vulnerable to decreased enrollment, yet they are uniquely positioned to provide well-rounded future teachers and educational leaders for a democratic society. To inform recruitment efforts, this study examined students' perceptions of teaching careers and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Teaching (Occupation), Liberal Arts
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Tim DuPont; Mike Shurden; Susan Shurden – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2024
This study addresses business student preferences regarding class scheduling. How much input do students really have in the scheduling process. What percentage of business students prefer early morning classes? What percentage of business students prefer evening classes? Do upper level business students scheduling preferences differ from lower…
Descriptors: Business Education, Student Attitudes, School Schedules, Grade Level Differences
Cron, Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College football is a significant part of American culture and a revenue source for many schools. At first thought, college football is associated with large Division I programs within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) with fanfare, traditions, and national following. However, most college football athletes do not play at the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, African American Students, Males, Student Athletes
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Cynthia L. Dulaney; Christina Davlin-Pater; Julie A. B. Cagle – College Teaching, 2025
Student academic success depends on a variety of factors, one of which is self-regulation of learning. An important part of self-regulation involves selecting from a myriad of course resources available and planning to use those resources. This study explores the use of an online tool to help undergraduate students improve self-regulation by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Management, Resource Materials, Undergraduate Students
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Laura J. Muller; Melissa Eblen-Zayas – Numeracy, 2025
We developed a framework for characterizing an institution's quantitative skills/reasoning support ecosystem to consider how various activities contribute to student success in areas connected to students' quantitative preparation. Through discussions with faculty and staff stakeholders at eight selective small liberal arts colleges, we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts
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Travis K. Taylor; Rik Chakraborti; Niall Mahaney – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
This paper analyzes the impact of college athletic reclassification for educational institutions in the United States. Most of America's colleges and universities offer athletic opportunities for their students under NCAA governance. The level of competition and associated resource requirements range from relatively low (Division 3) to high…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Competition, Small Colleges, School Size
Penprase, Bryan Edward; Schneider, Thomas – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
While international alliances among research universities are relatively well established, the challenges for the small liberal arts college to execute a meaningful global collaboration can be much more difficult, due both to the much smaller size of the institution, its more limited resources, and its smaller and more intimate culture centered on…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Intercollegiate Cooperation, International Cooperation, Small Colleges
Callahan, Caroline M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this action research study was to understand and strengthen staff and administrators' sense of workplace belonging in a small, private, family-founded college. In Cycle 1 the researcher aimed to understand factors that contributed to participants sense of belonging. Cycle 1 participants responded to a survey to provide insight on…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Administrators, Sense of Community, Work Environment
Jamii R. Claiborne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The faculty composition in U.S. higher education has changed significantly over recent decades (AAUP, 2020; Hurlburt & McGarrah, 2016b; Schuster & Finkelstein, 2006). What was once a faculty model dominated by tenured and tenure-track faculty has shifted to majority contingent. As of 2020, contingent faculty composed nearly 70% of the…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Private Colleges, Small Colleges, Influences
Anne-Marie Caruso – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As colleges confront challenging circumstances, the prospect of small, private college closures remains pertinent. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of displaced employees due to college closure. For this study, Schlossberg's (1981) transition theory was used as a foundational lens. Although there…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, School Closing, Small Colleges, Private Colleges
Alicia Marie Cassels – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Decades of research indicate that formative assessment promotes achievement (Black & Wiliam, 1998a; Hattie & Timperley, 2007) and that we must learn more about how to implement formative assessment effectively in higher education settings (Bennett, 2011; Kingston & Nash, 2011; Morris et al., 2021) where most instructors deliver…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Formative Evaluation, Learning Management Systems, Educational Practices
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N. Swalve – College Teaching, 2024
Empathy is linked to decreased relapse in patients with substance abuse. Educational programming for nursing and medical students focused on developing empathy, but no research has been done on how drug education can alter perceptions and empathy toward addiction. This study examined the influence of a drugs course on attitudes toward addiction.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Addictive Behavior, Empathy, Course Descriptions
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Jesse Gleason; Resha Cardone; Andrew Bartlett – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to take stock of student learning. Although the "crisis-context" (Gacs et al., 2020) move to fully online instruction may be over, a complete understanding of how student outcomes have been impacted remains. The present study focuses on how students' Spanish language proficiency, as…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Tests, Spanish
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