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Walton, Edward W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many academic libraries were early adopters of e-books and continue to acquire e-books to support student learning. The e-book is an innovation that purports to replace the printed book; however, students continue to prefer to use the printed book. While students prefer the printed book, academic libraries that provide access to e-books report…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Small Colleges, Adoption (Ideas), Books
Chow, Sheri S. L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research addresses best practices for recruiting students at small graduate schools. Best practice is a management term defined as the most efficient and effective way of accomplishing a task. While popular techniques can promote student enrollment, the actual practices and how they are carried out can be varied and unique at each school. For…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Student Recruitment, Case Studies, Nontraditional Education
Miller, Jodie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The past twenty years have seen a growing interest in promoting quantitative literacy (QL) courses at the college level. At small institutions, financial realities impose limitations on faculty size and therefore the variety of courses that may be offered. This study examined course offerings below calculus at four hundred twenty-eight small…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Small Colleges, College Mathematics, Courses
Krieg, Dana Balsink – College Student Journal, 2013
Increasing numbers of students are experiencing difficulty adjusting to college. Violated expectations of college may increase the stress experienced across the college career. Therefore, 36 college students were assessed prior to matriculation, during the first year and during the senior year. Expectations and experiences of academics, social…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Expectation, Comparative Analysis
Kuh, George D. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2013
In this article, the author illustrates how three campuses have, in their own way, attempted to bring coherence to the student experience and enrich that experience by more closely matching what was promised to what each student actually experiences while enrolled. Fulfilling students' expectations that were purposefully articulated in the mission…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Administration, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
Cook, Paul G. – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This institutional autoethnography (IAE) explores the political and pedagogical dynamics of WPA and WAC/WID work within an exceedingly small, resolutely single-sex, and assuredly rural liberal arts campus ecology. Working within a theoretical framework informed by WAC/WID's historical commitment to increasing literacy in students from diverse…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Program Administration, Ethnography, Institutional Characteristics
Johnston, Elizabeth Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There exists much debate in the area of hybrid and online developmental mathematics. Researchers believe that the best method of delivery of developmental mathematics is the traditional, instructor-based classroom setting. This study examined the success of developmental mathematics students in traditional, hybrid, and online classroom…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Electronic Learning
Wagner, Michael Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Since the early 1980s, exposure to digital technologies/devices has occurred on a wide cultural/societal level. Numerous writers have posited their impressions of these encounters often times suggesting an ease, comfort, and acceptance on the part of the users, especially those born in 1980 or later. This study examined the ongoing relationship…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, College Students, Small Colleges, Interviews
Brown, Alice W. – Trusteeship, 2012
Many small colleges are struggling and should remember that denial is not prevention. Technology is providing new ways for students to get degrees without being a resident on a campus, accrediting agencies are increasing their demands for evidence that students are learning, and the costs for operating an institution (such as utilities and…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Accreditation (Institutions)
Palin, Karen; Greer, Meredith L. – Journal of American College Health, 2012
Objective: The authors examine the dynamics and the impact of all-campus events on pH1N1 spread at Bates College in fall 2009, with comparisons to 3 other campuses. Participants: Students (N = 285) presented or called in to the Bates Health Center with symptoms consistent with influenza-like illness. Methods: Health Center staff at Bates collected…
Descriptors: College Students, School Health Services, Mathematical Models, Immunization Programs
Vandover, William Frederick – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the factors that influence the creation, purchase, and selection of free instructional technology. Specifically, this study uses the RIPPLES Model to examine the perceptions and reflections of instructional technology directors and staff members with regard to the Resources, Infrastructure, People, Policies, Learning,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Decision Making, Liberal Arts, Small Colleges
Gore, John – ProQuest LLC, 2012
First-year seminar courses have been used by colleges and universities as a means to improve retention rates among college freshmen. While there has been a great deal of research on the impact of the first-year seminar course on retention rates from freshman to sophomore year, there has not been much attention given to the type of instructor…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Faculty, Student Personnel Workers, Comparative Analysis
Immerman, Stephen D. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
For over a decade, educators, government representatives, entrepreneurs, social scientists, economists and journalists have espoused a constant drumbeat on the critically important skills and habits of mind that students will need to possess not just to survive, but also thrive in a rapidly changing and highly competitive world. Each commentator,…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Fine Arts, Higher Education, Undergraduate Study
Cagle, Len – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2011
Study abroad is often treated in terms of individual student outcomes, and has recently been discussed as potentially detrimental to smaller language programs--in that student participation in semester- or year-long programs subtracts from enrollments in upper-level courses. In this article, the promotion of study abroad in a small German program…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Student Participation, College Programs, German
Jones, Scott L.; Leonard, Kirsten – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
This study examined the homepages of the libraries of 175 smaller bachelor of arts institutions, coding for the presence of 98 design elements. By reporting and examining the frequency of these features, the authors noted what is and is not common practice at these libraries. They found that only fourteen elements were present on at least half of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Web Sites, Small Colleges