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Stephanie B. Conner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Faculty at colleges and universities across the nation are under pressure to provide engaging classroom environments suited to a diverse student population in order to increase student retention. Faculty professional development is often supported by Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Larger, well-funded schools have created CTLs with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Small Colleges, Faculty Development, Continuing Education Centers
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Lowe, Cassie; Sims, Stuart; Winter, Juliet – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
Genuine engagement by academic staff and students in reflective practice in a time of great institutional pressure and a neo-liberal agenda for more metrics driven practice has become increasingly difficult to set time aside for. While more and more feedback is being requested on teaching practice, the quality, validity or reliability of this…
Descriptors: Reflection, Critical Thinking, Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response)
Reed, Jared William – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Community colleges play a fundamental role in higher education. They are open-access institutions, providing higher education services to individuals from a variety of backgrounds. Community colleges also provide important workforce development and training opportunities to help develop the local economy. Today, states and the federal government…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Small Colleges, Community Colleges, College Role
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Staton, Sophie C.; Melekis, Kelly; McCarthy, Peter – Innovative Higher Education, 2018
Although the Collegiate Recovery Community is increasingly seen as the treatment modality of choice for students in recovery, relatively few such programs have been established on small residential campuses. In this article we examine the possible reasons for this reluctance and suggest ways in which the standard model for a Collegiate Recovery…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Residential Institutions, Addictive Behavior, Substance Abuse
Gross, Karen – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
There's been no shortage of suggestions for how to save the many small colleges that dot the landscape, especially in New England. Susan Dynarski, a well-respected professor who regularly comments insightfully on issues in higher education, suggested that perhaps the only places where COVID safety and education can coexist are rural small college…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Disease Control, Public Health, Crisis Management
Hetrick, Barbara; Whyte, Susan Barnes – Council of Independent Colleges, 2020
From 2015 through 2019, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) conducted a project that was intended to test the utility of Shared Shelf to the teaching and research needs of small colleges. Shared Shelf (now called JSTOR Forum) made it possible for a collection of material assembled by one faculty member--for example, butterfly specimens--to…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
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Young, Nicholas T.; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
One argument for keeping the physics Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is that it can help applicants who might otherwise be missed in the admissions process stand out. In this work, we evaluate whether this claim is supported by physics graduate school admissions decisions. We used admissions data from five Ph.D.-granting physics departments over a…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, College Applicants, Selective Admission
Brianna Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The six-year university graduation rate for minority, first-generation, and low-income students is significantly lower than it is for non-minority students, students whose parents went to college, and students from high-income families. The problem addressed in this study was small private, faith-based institutions do not have a viable model for…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Success, Private Colleges
Elizabeth Cottrell Alpert – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined how students and faculty perceived the use of pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy in undergraduate humanities courses. Humanities courses, in particular at small, liberal arts institutions, are underrepresented in research about perceptions of learning and teaching. Participants in this study were undergraduate students and…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Faculty
Jenkins, Davis; Klempin, Serena C.; Lahr, Hana – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2022
North Central State College provides a case study of how a small college can increase revenue by strategically realigning its existing staff resources for improving student retention and success, even in a period of stagnant enrollment. The college implemented a series of major reforms with the aim of improving student retention and completion on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Enrollment, Educational Resources, Community College Students
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Allendoerfer, Cheryl; Veilleux, Nanette; Floyd-Smith, Tamara; Plett, Melani; Wilson, Denise; Bates, Rebecca; Jones, Diane Carlson – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2019
This study examines student-faculty relationships at a small women's college where STEM students rely almost exclusively on faculty members for academic support. Students at comparison schools, including two of similar size, rely primarily on peer study groups. To understand this difference, students and faculty interviews, classroom observations,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Single Sex Colleges, STEM Education, College Faculty
Carter, Moya Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation examines Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Student Affairs Professionals actively working in various Student Affairs roles at small, residential colleges and universities within Southern California. The study investigates factors related to Burnout using the three constructs identified in Dr. Christina Maslach's Maslach Burnout…
Descriptors: Burnout, Empathy, Fatigue (Biology), Student Personnel Workers
Adam Altman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation explored the adoption of technology at academic libraries and the perceptions of the community (students, faculty, staff, and administration) about this technology at six small institutions of higher education. Institutional characteristics were identified through a library technology audit to obtain an understanding of the…
Descriptors: Technology, Small Colleges, Academic Libraries, Technology Uses in Education
Dolores Greenawalt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined if a faculty-run Reading and Writing Lab at a small, private university in the Midwest helped traditionally underserved college freshmen taking developmental English classes increase their levels of self-perceived comprehension and confidence. Students who typically need to take developmental English classes include English as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Reading Instruction
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Eide, Stephen – Education Next, 2018
Small mid-tier private schools tend to have modest endowments, and after decades of tuition hikes comparable to those of their elite peers, they are now at high risk of pricing themselves out of the market. The fiscal crisis of small private colleges will play out differently across the nation. States vary in their demographic projections and the…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Declining Enrollment, School Closing, Consolidated Schools
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