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Craig Seager – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2024
The recruitment and retention of residence life staff has become increasingly difficult for many colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Back in 2008, a report supported by the ACUHO-I Commissioned Research Program, "Recruitment and Retention of Entry-Level Staff in Housing and Residence Life," indicated that the problem was…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Labor Turnover, Resident Advisers, College Housing
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Ceci, Stephen J.; Williams, Wendy M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2016
Clark et al. focus on the likely drivers of the Flynn effect (sociocultural, educational, technological), and imply that it is not a single causal agent driving the upward climb in IQ scores but perhaps multiple causes with different onsets. Given, the authors' conception of intelligence in terms of underlying attentional and cognitive resources…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Change, Generational Differences, Qualitative Research
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White, John Wesley; Ali-Khan, Carolyne; Zoellner, Brian P. – College Teaching, 2017
The purpose of this article is to discuss meritocracy as it impacts our undergraduate college teaching. As college educators, we have come to realize how little students have been challenged to critically examine the notion of meritocracy. Seeking to understand why this is so and what we can do to engender a more nuanced understanding of how…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Undergraduate Students, Social Class, Social Mobility
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Salisbury, Fiona; Karasmanis, Sharon – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
How information literate are the Google generation, and what information literacy skills do they bring to university? For university libraries, understanding student prior knowledge provides a foundation on which to introduce appropriate learning activities during the first year. In 2009, in response to a new pedagogical model in health sciences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, College Freshmen, Generational Differences
Taylor, Paul, Ed.; Keeter, Scott, Ed. – Pew Research Center, 2010
This report represents the Pew Research Center's most ambitious examination to date of America's newest generation, the Millennials, many of whom have now crossed into adulthood. Pew Research Center began looking at this age group in 2006 in a comprehensive survey conducted in association with the PBS documentary series, "Generation…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Values, Attitudes, Behavior
Skilbeck, Malcolm; Connell, Helen – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2004
During the next decade, the teaching profession in Australia will be transformed. Due mainly to age related retirements there will be a massive turnover and a huge influx of new entrants. At the same time, it can be expected that there will be more exacting requirements and expectations of teachers as new professional standards are set to meet the…
Descriptors: Social Change, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Role