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Laura Lambert; Megan Good – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
Assessment practitioners are well aware that evidence of learning improvement in higher education is scarce. A Learning Improvement Community has been created to promote learning improvement. Recently, this group created a "Readiness for Learning Improvement Tool." Given learning improvement projects are resource intensive, this tool was…
Descriptors: Intention, Program Administration, Program Development, Educational Improvement
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Wang, Elaine Lin; Gates, Susan M.; Herman, Rebecca – RAND Corporation, 2022
The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs--which prepare the majority of school principals--have struggled with how to make the fundamental changes needed to prepare principals for today's schools. To test a path forward, The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, College Programs, School Districts
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Gates, Susan M.; Herman, Rebecca; Wang, Elaine Lin – RAND Corporation, 2022
The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs--which prepare the majority of school principals--have struggled with how to make the fundamental changes needed to prepare principals for today's schools. To test a path forward, The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, College Programs, Partnerships in Education
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Becca Hartman-Pickerill; Rebecca Russo – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Interfaith America's 2023 Landscape Analysis explores the purpose, range of desired outcomes, promising models, challenges, and opportunities of bridgebuilding efforts across U.S. higher education. This article articulates the importance of bridgebuilding for the sector and summarizes key findings from the Landscape Analysis. It highlights…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Campuses
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Mihyeon Kim; Conor Dibble; Ashley Morris – Gifted Child Today, 2025
From its inception, the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary has been committed to the education of gifted students. Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska, founder of the CFGE, created a learning environment to work directly with gifted students and parents by providing diverse university-based pre-collegiate programs in both residential and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Enrichment Activities, High School Students
Pastor, Dena A.; Foelber, Kelly J.; Jacovidis, Jessica N.; Fulcher, Keston H.; Sauder, Derek C.; Love, Paula D. – Association for Institutional Research, 2019
James Madison University has used dedicated Assessment Days for more than 30 years to collect longitudinal data on student learning outcomes. Our model ensures all incoming students are tested twice: once before beginning classes and again after accumulating 45-70 credit hours. Although each student completes only four instruments during a 2-hour…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Evaluation, Universities, College Students
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Bulancea, Gabriela; Granfield, Patricia; Jauchen, Joanna; Love, Jack; Nelson, Mary; Sachs, Robert; Sausville, Catherine – PRIMUS, 2021
Our department is in the early stages of a multi-year effort to nurture a culture that values active learning. We focus on the change process, including specific, pragmatic ideas from the literature on grassroots leadership and systemic change. We briefly review Wenger's work on cultivating communities of practice and use Wenger's evaluation of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Active Learning, Calculus
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Draper, Darryl; Mayes, Lisa; Payne, Brian – Open Learning, 2023
To counter tuition and textbook costs for degree-seeking students, a specific pathway to a bachelor's degree in Leadership was developed. The pathway, comprised of partnerships with the high school Leadership Academy at a public high school, community college, and Old Dominion University (ODU), reduced tuition and textbook costs, allowing the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, High School Teachers, College Faculty
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Pitman, Lora; Payne, Brian K.; Vandecar-Burdin, Tancy; Thorbjornsen, Lenora – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2022
As the number of available cybersecurity jobs continues to grow, colleges strive to offer to their cybersecurity students an environment which will make them sufficiently prepared to enter the workforce after graduation. This paper explores the academic and professional needs of STEM-students in various higher education institutions across…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Computer Security, Information Security
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Aubrey, Hal; Jordan, Tina; Stevenson, Andre P.; Boss-Victoria, Rena; Haynes, James; Estreet, Anthony; Smith, Jahmaine; Cameron, Elijah; Williams, Quotasze – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Fisk University began the genesis of HBCU graduate programs in 1880. During the next fifty years, several other HBCUs established graduate programs. That group included Lincoln, Howard, and Morgan State. However, only Lincoln University established a PhD program. The primary goal of this paper is to provide a historical perspective regarding the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Work, Program Development, Educational History
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Joseph Thomas – William & Mary Educational Review, 2014
From the foundation of the dramatic club in 1926 to the establishment of an independent academic Department of Theatre and Speech in 1963, the William and Mary Theatre experienced many changes as it grew from an extracurricular pursuit into a degree-granting program. Developments in facilities, curriculum, and local theatrical activity all…
Descriptors: Program Development, Theater Arts, Educational History, Drama
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Ilakkuvan, Vinu; Snyder, Melanie G.; Wiggins, Jane – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2015
Students on a college campus are involved in each other's lives in ways that are pervasive and consequential, including during times of distress. A comprehensive campus based suicide prevention plan includes strategies to promote peer involvement that are both safe and effective. Careful program planning, careful training and careful messaging are…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Participation, Peer Relationship, Prevention
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Alexander, Jackson C.; Rucker, K. Jill; Graham, Donna L.; Miller, Jefferson D.; Apple, Jason K. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
This study characterized perceptions of agricultural leadership programs in colleges of agriculture, food, life, human, or environmental sciences at 1,862 land-grant institutions. Objectives included describing the need for programs, studying evolution within the discipline, discussing faculty recommendations for future development, and examining…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Agricultural Education, Leadership Training, Agricultural Colleges
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Houck, Joseph D.; Machamer, Natalie K.; Erickson, Karla A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
One-day chemistry camps, managed by graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry at the Universities of Virginia (UVA) and Vermont (UVM), have proven successful as an outreach initiative. The camp model engages kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school students in hands-on, inquiry-based science experiments to educate and excite…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Graduate Students, Elementary School Students, Chemistry
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2015
Staff provides this baseline report as a summary of its preliminary considerations and initial research in fulfillment of the requirements of HB2320 from the 2015 session of the General Assembly. Codified as § 23-7.4:7, this legislation compels the Education Secretary and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Director, in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Academic Degrees, Undergraduate Study
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