Given the substantial and multifaceted landscape of online graduate education, a competency in this setting is essential for educational leaders. Therefore, educational leaders assist organizations to accomplish online graduate education objectives in a rapidly changing environment. Consequently, an organizational decision-making framework is…

Academic faculty in a two-year post-baccalaureate teacher education program at a small research university in British Columbia explored the extended use of e-Portfolios into final practicum over a three-year period. The education technology course offered in Term Three asked teacher candidates to create and design an e-Portfolio as part of the…

The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis was to better understand the senior year experience concluding with the post-secondary transition, stress, and coping through the eyes of recent high school graduates and members of the Class of 2020. Schlossberg's (1984) transition model was used as a theoretical framework to study the…

This qualitative case study investigated Black graduate students and faculty perceptions about culturally responsive mentoring and its perceived impact on the success of Black graduate students. This research study also examined Black graduate students and faculty perceptions about institutional responses to the mentoring needs of Black graduate…

Black women are severely underrepresented in faculty careers. To begin moving towards action in eradicating the policies and practices used against Black women to keep them from successfully obtaining faculty roles, we must first look to challenges and opportunities faced during doctoral training that negatively impact the faculty pipeline. As…

This study assesses cross-listed courses (courses with a mix of undergraduate and graduate students) to uncover current pedagogical and programmatic trends at a field-wide level. The applied mixed-methods study provides important foundational insights into an under researched area in Technical and Professional Communication (TPC). Research…

Substantial recent growth in online graduate programs has garnered the attention of the higher education community. Given their limited resources and capability, institutions seeking to scale their online graduate programs need to consider whether to insource or outsource this initiative. The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge and…

Background: Promise programs are place-based financial aid awards that seek to promote postsecondary attainment by covering all or nearly all college tuition costs. In 2015 Oregon became the second state in the country after Tennessee to implement a statewide promise program (Higher Education Coordinating Commission [HECC], 2020). Oregon Promise…

This original teaching idea for a semester-long course encompasses a team-based project in which students worked together to create persuasive campaign materials for a local community health organization. The purpose of this project was for students to apply learned concepts related to theories and principles of persuasion to a real-world…

Studying towards a postgraduate qualification is viewed as a booster that may usher employees towards management positions. We have found common mistakes in research proposals for master's degree students in a department at the University of Namibia. Our presentation shows the shortcomings in the research proposals of postgraduate students and…

The massification of higher education has dramatically changed the association between credentials and jobs in advanced countries, while its impacts in transitional economies have received less academic attention. To address this research lacuna, the paper utilizes rich information from China's national surveys of college graduates from 2003 to…

We study whether the completion of an optional professional year placement during undergraduate studies enhances job quality, in terms of earnings, job security and career fit, for economics graduates from a UK university. Using linear and discrete choice models, we estimate the effect of doing a professional year placement on four graduate…

With increasing focus on the outcomes of doctoral education, especially regarding employability, we aimed to explore how PhD graduates from humanities and social sciences (HASS), and science disciplines perceived the development of a holistic set of graduate attributes during their doctoral study and the application of these attributes in the…

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the factors that are important for strengthening university-industry collaboration (UIC). This study also investigates the outcome of UIC in the light of creativity, skill, knowledge, and research work. Design/methodology/approach: A survey method has been used to collect data for the study. This…

Cheating has been a long-standing issue in university assessments. However, the release of ChatGPT and other free-to-use generative AI tools has provided a new and distinct method for cheating. Students can run many assessment questions through the tool and generate a superficially compelling answer, which may or may not be accurate. We ran a…