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Lavanya Seetamraju; James Fredricksen; Donna Llewellyn – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2025
This article describes how Boise State University uses the National Association of Colleges and Employers' set of eight "Competencies for a Career-Ready Workforce" as a foundation for the evaluation of its Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) program. Data was collected from both students and faculty to understand how often students had…
Descriptors: State Universities, Career Readiness, Core Competencies, College Faculty
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Raymond Thomas; Zelia Z. Wiley; Lonnie Hobbs Jr.; Summer Santillana – Journal of Extension, 2025
An important pre-condition to diversifying the workforce of land-grant extension services is access to qualified ethnic minority individuals with an awareness and interest in pursuing extension careers. This paper highlights an example of collaboration between the K-State Research and Extension office and an educational research program at Kansas…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Extension Education, College Students, Minority Group Students
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Beena Ajmera; Sarah L. Crary – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) programs provide opportunities for professional development for teachers. The goal of the RET site at North Dakota State University (NDSU), established in May 2020 (NSF Awards #1953102 and #2224135), was to increase the knowledge of secondary (6th to 12th grade)…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Civil Engineering, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Chatterjee, Diti; Dinar, Ariel; González-Rivera, Gloria – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2019
Purpose: This paper is concerned with the impact of the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) on regional productivity in California agriculture. UCCE is responsible for agricultural research and development (R&D), and dissemination of agricultural know-how in the state. Method/methodology/approach: We estimate the effect of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Rural Extension, State Universities, Productivity
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Rahimi, Masoud; Yousofi, Nouroddin; Moradkhani, Shahab – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2021
While research is abundant on academics' research engagement in higher education, very little has been done to study the setbacks for research practices in English language teaching (ELT) in higher education. Adopting a qualitative research design, the present study explored the research setbacks for ELT in higher education. To this end, 10…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Holmes, Ashley J.; Harker, Michael; Gaillet, Lynée Lewis – Composition Forum, 2020
This program profile describes a restructure of the PhD exam intended to enhance graduate-level instruction and advisement within the Rhetoric and Composition program at Georgia State University. We explain how a mix of institutional constraints and mentorship opportunities drove revisions to our doctoral exams and processes of doctoral…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Doctoral Programs, State Universities, Writing (Composition)
Tosun, Hasan – Online Submission, 2020
The university ranking systems have been utilized for academic performance of higher education system in the World since beginning of 2000's years. These systems, which considered the common parameters, have quickly followed with their own hierarchical measures by higher education organizations. However, these ranking systems never consider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Evaluation, State Universities
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Mensah, Mavis S. B.; Enu-Kwesi, Francis – Industry and Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to analyse the determinants of the intention of academic researchers to collaborate on research projects with the carriers of innovation. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach was employed to analyse survey data from 266 stratified sampled researchers and 11 key informants from different disciplines in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy, State Universities, College Faculty