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Teaching and Learning--You Really Mean Profit and Learning: The Business of Learning
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Laing, Angus – Journal of Management Education, 2019
Deans and academic colleagues are collectively involved in the delivery of business education. Yet their perspectives on teaching and learning can vary significantly reflecting the distinctive position from which they view the process. The dean's perspective is shaped by external drivers and reference groups that are very different from those…
Descriptors: Deans, College Faculty, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Journalism Education: The View from the Provost's Office
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Hamilton, John Maxwell – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2014
Journalism education traditionally has occupied an uneasy space on the fringe of the university. Recent trends have not made its footing any more secure. The tension between the professional nature of journalism education and its scholarly aspirations, which tend away from applied research, are confusing to upper-level university administrators,…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Administrator Attitudes, College Presidents, Educational Finance
The Symbolic Role of Academic Boards in University Academic Quality Assurance
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Rowlands, Julie – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
While much research on quality assurance in higher education has centred on issues related to the impact on teaching and learning and academic staff, there is a significant gap in the area of quality assurance and academic governance. Within Australia the roles of university academic boards (also known as academic senates or faculty senates) have…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance
A Troubled Mexican Institution Starts to Turn a Corner
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Campbell, Monica – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Nestled in the mountainous, southeastern Mexican state of Puebla, the University of the Americas-Puebla has been a distinguished institution with close ties to the United States. It was a popular study-abroad choice and enjoyed accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. However, under the tenure of Pedro Angel Palou Garcia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Mexicans, Universities
Reference Sets, Identities, and Aspirations in a Complex Organizational Field: The Case of American Four-Year Colleges and Universities
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Brint, Steven; Riddle, Mark; Hanneman, Robert A. – Sociology of Education, 2006
This article introduces cluster analysis and reference set analysis as tools for understanding structure, identity, and aspiration in complex organizational fields. Cluster analysis is used to identify the structure of the organizational field in American four-year colleges and universities. The article shows that presidential choices of reference…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Colleges, Multivariate Analysis, Aspiration
Managing Academic Deficiency: A Microanalysis of 19th Century Image Making in American Higher Education. ASHE 1986 Annual Meeting Paper.
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Brier, Ellen M. – 1986
The efforts of Vassar College and Cornell University in their early years (1865-1890) to manage problems presented by underprepared students are described. Based on archival materials, registers, institutional publications, and histories, attention is directed to the perceptions of administrators, faculty, students, and alumni concerning academic…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, College Curriculum, College Preparation