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Ban the Discipline Box? How University Applications That Assess Prior School Discipline Experiences Relate to Admissions of Students Suspended in High School
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Curran, F. Chris – Research in Higher Education, 2022
For the past decade and a half, many institutions of higher education have asked about high school disciplinary experiences, including suspensions, on their applications. Advocates have argued that this "discipline box" has a negative effect on suspended students' likelihood to apply and be accepted to institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Discipline, Suspension, College Admission
Learning to Collaborate in a Project-Based Graduate Course: A Multilevel Study of Student Outcomes
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Mette Mari Wold Johnsen; Ela Sjølie; Vegard Johansen – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The context of this study is an interdisciplinary project-based course at a large public university in Scandinavia. The course is taught annually to 3,300 graduate students from all fields of study, and learning to collaborate is a specified learning objective. Similar courses are widespread in higher education institutions worldwide, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Graduate Students, Cooperation
Are There Gender Differences in Quantitative Student Evaluations of Instructors?
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Zipser, Nina; Mincieli, Lisa; Kurochkin, Dmitry – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Recent research conducted at numerous universities has found evidence of instructor-gender differences in student evaluations of teaching (SET). This paper examines whether such gender effects exist in "instructor overall" ratings within a database of SET that includes almost 600,000 observations from the past 11 years for the Faculty of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Assistants
Evaluating the Impact of Crime and Discipline on Student Success in Postsecondary Education
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Schuck, Amie M. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of crime and discipline on graduation rates in higher education. Using national data on more than 1250 public and private non-profit institutions that were drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the results reveal that more violence on and around campus is associated with…
Descriptors: Crime, Discipline, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
Tenure and Promotion Outcomes at Four Large Land Grant Universities: Examining the Role of Gender, Race, and Academic Discipline
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Durodoye, Raifu; Gumpertz, Marcia; Wilson, Alyson; Griffith, Emily; Ahmad, Seher – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Inclusion and diversity are highly visible priorities at many colleges and universities. Efforts to diversify the professoriate have necessitated a better understanding of career outcomes for current female faculty and faculty of color. We measure risk of leaving without tenure and years to promotion from associate to full professor at four large…
Descriptors: Tenure, Faculty Promotion, Land Grant Universities, Gender Differences