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Direct linkValiente, Orfilio Ernesto – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2015
In 1965, the Jesuit-run Central American University (UCA) was launched in El Salvador as the wealthy family's educational alternative to the increasingly leftist National University. But within a decade, the UCA would shift its focus to the inequalities and injustice experienced by the country's popular majorities and to its own role as society's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Universities
Kelchen, Robert – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Student fees make up 20% of the total cost of tuition and fees at the typical four-year public, yet little research has been conducted to examine institutional-level and state-level factors that may affect student fee charges. I use panel data to find that institutional selectivity and athletics spending do not influence student fee levels.…
Descriptors: Fees, Institutional Role, Performance Factors, Data Analysis
Theisens, Henno; Hooge, Edith; Waslander, Sietske – European Journal of Education, 2016
Many policy systems and education systems have grown more complex in the last three decades. Power has moved away from central governments in different directions: upwards towards international organisations, sideways towards private institutions and non-governmental organisations and downwards towards local governments and public enterprises such…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Agenda Setting, Educational Policy, Governance
Download full textHarkavy, Ira; Hartley, Matthew; Hodges, Rita Axelroth; Weeks, Joann – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
In the rapidly accelerating global era in which we now live, human beings must solve a vast array of unprecedently complex problems. Given their proclaimed dedication to critical intelligence, and their unique constellation of formidable resources to develop it, institutions of higher education have a unique responsibility to help solve these…
Descriptors: Global Education, Partnerships in Education, College Role, School Community Programs
Drummer, Carlee; Marshburn, Roxann – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
As community colleges seek new revenue streams, philanthropic organizations, including college foundations and private funders, have already begun to influence both revenues and college programming. This chapter discusses the current role of philanthropy, especially private foundations such as the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Community Colleges, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support
Berger, Jim I. – Adult Learning, 2014
The purpose of this article is to describe the interconnectedness of three professional development associations, the impact of various factors on collaboration and fragmentation, and suggestions for future directions. The three adult education professional associations being discussed in this article are the American Association of Adult and…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Professional Development, Institutional Role, Adult Basic Education
Al-Ghattami, Sulaiman; Al-Husseini, Suleiman – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
This study investigates teachers' conceptions of engagement with, and in, teacher research (TR) in the Sultanate of Oman. The data collected through interviews and questionnaires reveals that TR is not yet common practice in Omani schools. To make TR a sustainable mainstream activity within school environments should entail improving teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
Petrone, Eleanor A. – Democracy & Education, 2016
This article examines how a group of Latino youth living in the Southeast experienced, adapted to, and resisted oppressive social structures within their community through their involvement with youth media. Through the content analysis of a teen radio show produced by and for Latino youth, in conjunction with semistructured interviews and…
Descriptors: Youth, Social Structure, Radio, Semi Structured Interviews
Freeks, Fazel Ebrihiam – South African Journal of Education, 2015
The present world is in a moral crisis and it seems as though educational institutions experience both challenges and enormous behavioural problems. Statistics prove that there is a drastic decline in morals, values, standards, ethics, character and behaviour and schools, where colleges and even universities seem to indulge in crisis after crisis.…
Descriptors: Values Education, College Students, Moral Development, Institutional Role
Malachowski, Mitchell; Osborn, Jeffrey M.; Karukstis, Kerry K.; Ambos, Elizabeth L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
This chapter reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of undergraduate research as a student, faculty, and institutional success pathway, and provides the context for the Council on Undergraduate Research's support for developing and enhancing undergraduate research in systems and consortia. The chapter also provides brief introductions to each…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Research, Scholarships, Creative Activities
Donaldson, Morgaen L.; Mayer, Anysia P.; Cobb, Casey D.; LeChasseur, Kimberly; Welton, Anjale – Journal of Educational Change, 2013
Of late, teachers unions have worked together with district management in new and notable ways. This paper examines the role of teachers unions in shaping the Together Initiative (TI), which seeks to increase autonomy and broaden decision making in urban schools in one northeastern state. In general, state-level union leaders have taken more…
Descriptors: Unions, Administrative Organization, Urban Schools, Institutional Role
Neri, Rebecca Colina; Lozano, Maritza; Gomez, Louis M. – Review of Research in Education, 2019
Despite evidence of promise, the adoption of culturally relevant educational (CRE) approaches to teaching and learning remains sporadic and underwhelming. In this chapter, we question this state of affairs by investigating teacher resistance to CRE. Through our examination of the literature, we have come to understand teacher resistance to CRE as…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Attitudes, Resistance to Change, Beliefs
Education Cities, 2014
Education Cities is a network of 28 city-based organizations in 22 cities united by one goal: increasing the number of great public schools. The members are nonprofits with deep ties to their communities. They invest in high-impact schools and nonprofits, organizations that recruit and champion talented teachers and principals, engage community…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Nonprofit Organizations, Partnerships in Education, Public Schools
Al-Zoubi, Maysoon; Al-Dalabeeh, D. Haifa Abdelhadih – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the role of Irbid Directorate of Education in supporting of citizenship and loyalty values among students according to employers of the Directorate of Education in the Irbid governorate. The sample of the study consisted of the (134) employers who works in the Directorate of Education in Irbid governorate of Jordan.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Values Education, Questionnaires, Statistical Significance
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
