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Adams, P., James Joseph Fox, Nicholas E. Hagemeier, A. Mora, J. Trovato, and S. Westrick. "Academic Freedom Remains a Cornerstone of Educational Institutions." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5415.
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Brubaker, Dale M. "A national profile of athletic academic advising in NCAA division institutions." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142009-040244/.
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Zhou, Jun. "A study of academic staff development in Chinese higher education institutions." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417267.
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McGlothlin, Lester Marlena Brooke. "Understanding Academic Advising at Institutions with a First-Year Engineering Program." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89885.
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Academic advising has been a part of United States (U.S.) colleges and universities since their inception, yet academic advising as we know it today is a relatively new profession. Over the last several decades, many colleges and universities have employed professional advisors, rather than teaching and learning faculty, to carry out the academic advising functions however little is known about the structures of these advising programs. Academic advisors often serve on the front lines (i.e., high student contact hours) and advocate for student success by supporting students in learning about their institutions, uncovering their personal and professional goals, and encouraging them to pursue life goals. However, the responsibility of academic advising and advisors varies at institutions of higher education across the country and this variation is not well understood.
The purpose of this research was to better understand the structures of engineering academic advising at large four-year, primarily residential institutions with a first-year engineering program. To accomplish this purpose, the following overarching research question guided my study: How do first-year engineering programs structure academic advising, and what services, programs, and support are in place for academic advisors and students? To answer this question, I used a qualitative multi-case study design to understand the landscape of advising in first-year engineering programs and the organizational structures of their advising programs. I used Habley's Organizational Models for Academic Advising (1983) as a way to categorize the structures of academic advising and Frank's (1993) Integrated Model of Academic Advising Program Development as a conceptual framework for understanding how academic advising programs develop, the services provided, programming available, and how to enable the advisors to better support the student population. My findings include identifying: 1) several similarities between case sites' organizational structures of advising, 2) new student orientation and major exploration as main services offered at all sites, 3) a lack of formalized planning across all case sites, and 4) the prominence of advisor training with a desire to have more formal advisor recognition programs. Recommendations for future research, practice, and policy are provided along with a proposal for a new model for First-Year Engineering Advising Programs.Doctor of Philosophy
Academic advising is a function within higher education that serves students by providing guidance to navigate the higher education system. Academic advisors often serve on the front lines of the higher education environment and advocate for student success by supporting students in learning about their institutions of higher education, uncovering their personal and professional goals, and encouraging them in their academic pursuit. Academic advising has been a part of the United States (U.S.) higher education system at colleges and universities since their inception, yet academic advising, as we know it today is a relatively new profession. Over the last several decades, many colleges and universities have employed individuals to serve as professional academic advisors. These individuals spend the majority of their time and availability on the sole function of academic advising. However, the responsibility of academic advising and advisors varies at institutions of higher education across the country and this variation is not well understood. The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of the responsibilities and organizations of first-year engineering academic advising programs at large four-year, primarily residential institutions with a first-year engineering program. I interviewed individuals at universities and analyzed relevant advising program documents to understand the evolution of their advising programs, the services they provide, their program goals, and professional development available to them. My research uncovered 1) several similarities among the organization of the advising programs, 2) key academic services such the onboarding process for students known as new student orientation and methods to help student select an academic major, 3) a need to develop program planning initiatives and 4) the existence of training and lack of advising awards. Recommendations for future research, practice, and policy are provided along with a proposal for a new model for First-Year Engineering Advising Programs.
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Sikhosana, Regina Balengane. "Managing electronic resources at selected tertiary institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2727.
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Thesis (MTech (Business Information Systems))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.The aim of this research study is to explore the management of electronic resources used in libraries. Three tertiary institutions were used as case studies. The unit of analysis was the three libraries, with library employees (14) working and managing electronic resources being the unit of observation. Non-random, purposive sampling techniques were used. The finding of this study suggests that the participants do not use the Aleph integrated library system (ILS) optimally to manage electronic resources. Library employees do not keep up with current and new emerging technology trends in the library and academic environment. There is a lack of training, as well as understanding, of business processes and workflows. This is emphasised by a lack of knowledge of library system environments and, finally, the high cost of implementing the library systems. Electronic resource management (ERM) systems emerged in the early 2000s, and it became clear that traditional integrated library systems did not have sufficient capacity to provide efficient processing for meeting the changing needs and challenges of libraries at tertiary institutions. Libraries find it challenging to manage the wide range of licensed electronic resources, collaborating, cooperating and sharing resources with different libraries. The increasing number of electronic resource demands from users for remote or off campus access makes it difficult for libraries to manage electronic resources. As a result of this inability to manage the electronic resources, libraries are not effectively and efficiently using appropriate electronic resource systems to meet their business requirements.
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Stephen, David Ferguson. "Academic staff perceptions and the identification of critical success factors in a merger of two academic institutions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5267.
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Thesis (MComm (Industrial Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this investigation is two-fold: to ascertain the perceptions and reactions of academic staff to a merger, and its impact on them; and secondly, to identify factors which are critical to merger success. Although the two institutions had agreed on some form of closer relationship, the process was accelerated by a decision by the Department of Education to use mergers as a means of initiating change in South Africa’s post-school education system. Despite many superficial similarities, the two institutions were dissimilar. Only operational and financial factors were considered. The human factors were ignored. This was critical as the two institutions were totally different with regards to organisational culture and academic standards. The resulting clash in these areas proved to be a major stumbling block to the success of the merger. Technikon A, regarded as the institution of choice, had been subjected to a variety of rapid environmental changes in the few years immediately prior to the merger. These changes had sapped staff morale. In addition, significant financial mismanagement had almost crippled the institution. While the staff of neither institution was in favour of the merger, and both staff associations approached the Department of Education to stop it, the merger went ahead. However, the staff association of Technikon B publicly and vociferously opposed the merger, based on their fears that Technikon A’s incompetent management and weak financial position would impact negatively on them. Instead of integrating “best practice” systems, the weak Technikon A management allowed Technikon B to “make the running” and introduce only their systems into the merger. In effect, this turned the merger into a hostile take-over and allowed for the total deculturation of Technikon A. The perceptions of a sample of Technikon A academic staff were canvassed, both pre- and post-merger. The pre-merger predictions were accurate and there was almost unanimous consent as to the outcomes of the post-merger environment. Comparisons were made with other academic mergers in South Africa and overseas – notably Australia – and parallels drawn with the merger in question. In all cases, the perceptions of staff were very similar. From the literature, a list of critical merger success factors was compiled, against which the present merger was compared. Given that this merger failed to successfully address almost all of the success criteria, the merger must, therefore, be regarded as a complete failure.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie ondersoek is tweeledig. Dit behels die bepaling van reaksies en persepsies van akademiese personeel wie ten nouste deur ‘n samesmelting geraak is, asook ‘n studie van die kritiese prosessuele aspekte wat ‘n rol speel en in ag geneem behoort te word ten einde so ‘n instelling suksesvol te laat verloop. Die instellings waarna verwys word, word in hierdie studie aangedui as synde Technikon A en Technikon B. Alhoewel die twee instellings waarna verwys word in hierdie studie aanvanklik ‘n samewerking ooreenkoms wou sluit, is hulle gedwing deur die Departement van Hoër Onderwys om ‘n formele samesmelting te onderneem ter bespoediging van die regering se gestelde transformasie beleid in hoër onderwys. Ten spyte van oppervlakkige ooreenkomste het die twee inrigtings oor baie andersoortige unieke eienskappe beskik. Dit wil voorkom asof operasionele en finansiële faktore hoofsaaklik die hoofoorwegings by die samesmelting was en dat menslike faktore buite rekening gelaat is. Dit wil blyk ‘n kritiese fout te gewees het, omdat die twee instellings verskil het ten opsigte van hul organisasie-kultuur en akademiese standaarde. Technikon A is alreeds voor die formele samesmelting aan struktuur veranderinge onderwerp en was ook geraak deur wanbestuur wat ‘n baie nadelige impak op die moraal van die personeel gelaat het. Die personeel verenigings van beide inrigtings was gekant teen die samesmelting en veral die personeel van Technikon B het hewig beswaar daarteen gemaak. Hierdie teenstand is skynbaar geignoreer en daar is voortgegaan met die proses. Technikon A het ‘n totale dekulturasie proses moes ondergaan en moes aanlyn kom met die bestuur en styl van Technikon B wie se standaarde hulle as minderwaardig beskou het. Ten einde die proses te bestudeer is daar in hierdie navorsing gebruik gemaak van die metode van deelnemende-navorsing tegnieke (“participant observation techniques”). Onderhoude is gevoer met studente en personeel voor en na die proses; dokumente en verslae, asook media berigte is bestudeer en word aangehaal as bewyse. Vergelykings word getref met soortgelyke samesmeltings in Australië wat baie ooreenkomste toon met die in Suid Afrika. Die praktiese studie tesame met die literatuuroorsig dui onomwonde aan dat die samesmelting wat in hiedie studie in oënskou geneem is. gemeet aan die hand van krities belangrike prosessuele faktore, as ‘n mislukking beskou moet word.
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Bakkalian, Gastón, and Joakim Rådemar. "Business Intelligence in Uppsala Univeristy - Do academic institutions practice what they preach?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256176.
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Business Intelligence (BI) is not a new concept. However, it is still complicated to work with it due to the different views and ways of implementation. This study has adopted an organisational oriented approach of BI: getting the right information, to the right people, at the right time. It was found in this study that poorly implemented BI features and inadequate information infrastructure may lead to workarounds in order to compensate for missing or lacking features and systems. This case study has been conducted at the faculty of Social Sciences of Uppsala University (UU) where a set of interviews were conducted to individuals on one of the key positions at the university; the Director of Studies (DoS). The aim was to map out the key processes and head activities of the DoS’s and evaluate them through the BI view of this thesis. Being the conclusion a concrete mapping of the DoS head activities as well as BI assessment of the current situation of the studied departments. Some improvements have been proposed in order to remedy the lacking of valuable and critical features and systems. However, it was found that the current system infrastructure and problem area is too immature in order to implement any form of integration. Several studies on key positions and influential systems need to be conducted in order to exhaustively map out and discover the problem area.
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Smith, Jenni L. "Academic advising among institutions in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371478.
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The purpose of this study was to examine how academic advising was conducted among institutions in the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). The study examined organizational advising models used by these institutions and to what extent they utilized developmental advising methods. The sample consisted of all 105 member institutions of the CCCU. The sample equaled the population. A web-based survey was sent to each person responsible for academic advising at the 105 institutions.More than three-fourths of the respondents in this study reported they did not have a stand-alone office for academic advising. Faculty advisors were the primary group responsible for academic advising. The organizational model most utilized was the Faculty-Only Model. When asked if the respondent's institution achieved six ideal student developmental outcomes for advising programs, over 50% responded partially achieved for each of the six categories.If these institutions want to do more than partially achieve student developmental outcomes, they may need to reevaluate what they want their advising goals to accomplish and what type of organizational model is best for their institution. In order to combine the benefits of using both faculty and professional advisors, it would be beneficial for many of the CCCU institutions to gradually move toward a shared organizational advising model as time and institutional resources allow.Department of Educational Leadership
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Kataria, Sanjay. "Intellectual Repositories in Institutions of Higher Learning in India: An overview." ICOLIS 2007, Kuala Lumpur:, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105210.
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Paper presented in ICoLIS 2007 at MalaysiaThe paper discusses the concept of intellectual repository (IR) its need, importance,benefits, critical issues, major problems in establishment & maintenance of IR, role of librarians, intellectual society, academic institutions and the government. It also gives an overview of Intellectual Repository (IR) initiatives taken in the institutions of higher learning in Indian scenario.
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Namaganda, Agnes. "Institutional repositories and Higher Education in Uganda. The role of the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL)." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622572.
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Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).Objective: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the progress so far made by Uugandan universities in establishing Institutional Repositories (IRs) Methods: A questionnaire was designed and distributed among the member institutions of the Consortium of Uganda Uuniversity Librarries (CUUL). Data received from the questionnaires was augmented by osite visits, discussions and interviews with the university libraries. Results: Despite numerous benefits associated with IRs, few institutions have established IRs in Uganda due to certain barriers. This paper argues that although these imbalances are manifested, opportunities still exists for the establishment of IRs for national development. Recommendations: The paper emphasizes the need for partnerships with the different stakeholders in the planning and developing institutional repositories. Conclusions: Insitutional repositories should be considered as principal benchmarks of digital scholarship. Originality/value – It is believed that higher institutions of learning and communities would benefit substantially from establishing IRs. However, it can only be possible with well developed infrastructure, increased funding, coordination and advocacy.
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Hassan, Aminuddin. "Academic productivity and the impact of the national education philosophy in higher education institutions as viewed by Malaysian academics." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2675/.
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The purpose of this research is to highlight the valuable perspectives of Malaysian academics in the agenda for accessing productivity achievement and some other factors affecting it. This research is also about the National Education Philosophy (NEP) in terms of how successful its implementation on Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Malaysia is. The researcher draws eight major conclusions in answering the main research questions. The thesis argues that the most productive role among the academics is teaching, compared to research and administration. Also, different factors give significant effect to different academic roles. Only about 59% of the professors were thought to have been appointed on merit (deserve their appointment). About 35%, 30% and 12% of the respondents have fair, good and very good knowledge about NEP respectively. All NEP elements are considered well implemented, where each of them has an average rating of more than 3 in an increasing scale of 1-5 (least to most). The most frequent constraint among the academics for NEP to be implemented in HEI is the significant burdens that are time-consuming faced by them. There is a significant relationship between implementation success of NEP and administration productivity. Lastly, there is a significant relationship between the perspective of academics concerning professorial appointments and the successful implementation of NEP in HEI. However, the last two have modest correlation values in general. It is shown in the thesis that this is pioneering research because it is the first that has been conducted on a large scale involving academics in a single country. Furthermore, it is also the first research that has been conducted on academics in Malaysia by using an online survey questionnaire, an invention of a new procedure in Social Science research. The response rate of 42.43% looks very promising in comparison with similar procedures in the past. This study is also the first to look at the impacts of elements of NEP and their implementation in HEI in Malaysia. The study reveals the outcomes of academics' productivity by looking at their roles and the factors which affect their productivity, and the impacts of NEP in HEI alongside the possible constraints that could bring valuable positive indicators of the performance of current HEI in Malaysia as a whole.
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Willis, Wendie A. "Background Characteristics and Academic Factors Associated with the Academic Behavioral Confidence of International Graduate Students in Ohio’s Public Institutions." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1289787513.
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Thomas, Catherine Elizabeth. "The haunted university : academic subjectivity in the time of communicative capitalism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/57756/.
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In the last thirty years there have been significant changes in the governmentality and culture of higher education in the UK; concurrently, day-to-day practice has been transformed by networked computers. This political and technical double-act may be understood as a specific articulation of what Jodi Dean has termed communicative capitalism (2010, p.2-9). This thesis investigates how such political and technocultural changes condition the subjectivity of academic staff across a range of academic activities and contexts. The theoretical model I develop draws notably on a combination of the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan, using Freud's conception of the ‘uncanny' (1919) and Althusser's theory of ideology (1970), to consider how the academic subject of technoculture is constituted by the particular domain of communicative capitalism I term the Haunted University. To develop this argument the thesis firstly establishes the ‘nature' of the contemporary university – distinguishing it from earlier models and earlier moments of reform. This is developed using cultural history sources and theoretical work from social, cultural and critical higher education studies. Secondly, I use a series of cultural studies methods to identify and explore elements of the new university formation. These include the selection and analysis of relevant digital materials (e.g. academic homepages and blogs) and small qualitative surveys of academic staff. Thirdly, the broadly Lacanian thrust of my argument is developed through leveraging theoretical work from the fields of cultural studies, philosophy, critical labour studies and higher education policy. I conclude that the series of developments and changes enacted by communicative capitalism has tended to transform academic subjectivity, bringing about what may be a permanent change in the ontology and epistemology of the academy. However, despite neoliberalism's attempt to foreclose discursive dissent, there are resistances to its project. My original contribution to knowledge is to theorise how and why the shift in academic subjectivity is being enacted, demonstrating how the technocultural, neoliberal university is beginning to haunt the academy not only from the outside, but from the inside, too.
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Schimpp, Stephen Andrew. "Marginal costs of instruction at two-year higher education institutions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186725.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which marginal costs of instruction vary by curricular area at two-year higher education institutions in the U.S. A subordinate objective was to determine the extent to which these costs vary for similar curricular areas among (1) "public" institutions versus "private, not-for-profit" versus "private, for-profit" institutions, and (2) "junior colleges" versus "community colleges" versus "technical colleges." The curricular areas targeted for marginal cost generation in the study were (1) arts and sciences, (2) business and data processing, (3) health, (4) service, (5) trades and (6) technical. Marginal costs were estimated in the study by means of regression analysis. Three different classes of cost function and quasi-cost function regression models were utilized: (1) enrollment-based models, (2) degree-based models, and (3) award-based models. These differed as to the types of measures utilized to account for "output" at institutions. In all models, some version of "total expenditure on instruction" served as the dependent variable. Variables pertaining to costs of input factors and to technologies of production served, along with "output" data, as independent variables in the study. Virtually all data used in the study were obtained from 1989-90 Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS) surveys and were cross-sectional in nature. Four different regression model specifications were attempted in the study: (1) linear, (2) double-log, (3) linear with second order and interaction terms ("linear translog-like"), and (4) logarithmic with second order and interaction terms ("translog-like"). The effectiveness of each of these functional forms varied by institutional sector. Statistically significant marginal cost estimates were obtained in the study for all six curricular areas in most institutional sectors, but conflicting sets of estimates often were observed. As a result, the investigation was only partially successful in determining whether marginal costs of instruction for similar curricular areas varied systematically by institutional sector. In addition, a lack of data regarding quality of output rendered cross-sectoral comparisons tenuous. It was concluded that disaggregation of institutions into more homogeneous units of analysis in future studies held potential for the generation of more definitive marginal cost results.
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Xu, Xueyan, and 徐雪燕. "Guanxi and academic career development in Chinese higher education institutions : a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212614.
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Guanxi (interpersonal relationship) is an important mechanism through which Chinese people facilitate transactions and cope with institutional constraints under immature legal frameworks. As the transition of China’s economic system and legal framework progresses, the impact of guanxi on Chinese’s life and work has sparked heated debates. This study attempts to specify empirically the significance of guanxi in the context of institutional transition, from an academic career development perspective.
The researcher conducted a qualitative exploration in a transitional research university in Beijing. Based on the previous studies, this study emphasizes the influences of three types of guanxi –mentorship (shimenship), leader-subordinate guanxi and colleagueship – on academics’ professional growth, in terms of job status improvement, resource attainment, network enlargement and performance advancement. The strategies academics used to establish and enhance these three types of guanxi were also investigated.
Fifty-five academics’ perspectives and experiences were sought through semi-structured interviews. Their guanxi experiences helped the researcher to determine how and why guanxi helped academics to access different resources in the subject transitional research university. Likewise, policy documents, papers and observation notes were employed to portray the institutional constraints currently facing academics.
The field data pointedly suggested that the radical overhaul of institutional governance systems at the subject research university was, paradoxically, accompanied by the undiminished presence of the university’s old bureaucracy. This placed huge institutional constraints on academics’ career growth. Between the push of market forces and the pull of the old bureaucracy, academics were found to activate guanxi more enthusiastically and more frequently in an effort to overcome hardships and mobilize desirable academic resources.
The participants pointedly singled out mentors, fellow shimen members, and leaders as important resources linkers, helping them successfully access targeted information, resources, opportunities and other social relationships during the institutional transition. In terms of academic appointment, academics frequently used mentorship, shimenship and their connections to leaders to improve their job status. However, the field data suggested that the introduction of market-oriented mechanisms to the academic appointment process, together with enhanced central control over bianzhi distribution, at least to some extent, made these lobbying efforts less effective than expected. Regarding colleagueship, it had comparatively little influence on academics’ funding applications and teaching performance improvement, explaining why interactions between colleagues were often limited to perfunctory exchanges designed to maintain social harmony.
Academic collaboration was seen as an effective way of helping academics efficiently sustain and enhance their relationships with mentors, shimen members and leaders. Besides research interests and research competencies, academic collaboration allowed different parties to determine whether they were attuned to each other’s taste of personality traits (e.g., generosity, sincerity, responsibility), which were seen as leading indicators of academics’ moralities and work ethics, thus deepening their existing trust and promoting future collaborations.
Although social eating and communication were seen as useful ways of maintaining mentorship and shimenship, there was no consensus among academics with different status on their importance in enhancing leader-subordinate guanxi. Academics also reported accessing targeted powerful leaders through third party recommendations and self-disclosure.
In brief, this study is one of the few empirical studies to specify guanxi mechanism’s effect on academics’ career growth during institutional transition, and offers readers a different perspective on the influence of institutional reforms at Chinese HEIs on academics’ career development.published_or_final_version
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Yokley, Delight Bena. "Organizational Fit of Non-Academic Administrators of Color at Small Liberal Arts Institutions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77028.
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Diversity has become a central organizational goal especially as the U.S. population is experiencing racial demographic shifts (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). Employees of color makeup one-third of the workforce, yet higher education institutions have been slow to adjust to the shifting demographics (Birnbaum, 1988; Brown, 2004; Yancey, 2010). Higher education leaders are seeking ways to recruit and retain growing numbers of administrators of color working at their institutions. Available research focuses on organizational fit and faculty of color (Bozeman and Gaughan, 2011; Jackson, 2003b; Jayakumar et al., 2009; Ortega-Liston and Rodriguez Soto, 2014; Victorino et al., 2013) or examines organizational fit at research universities (Barrett and Smith, 2008; Gasman et al., 2011; Ryan et al., 2012; Turner et al., 2011). A review of the literature shows there is scarcity of scholarly knowledge on the experiences of administrators from historically minoritized groups with organizational fit at small liberal arts institutions.
The purpose of this study was to understand and describe how administrators of color at small liberal arts institutions experience organizational fit. The conceptual framework for this study was Jackson's (2004a) Engagement, Retention, and Advancement (ERA) Model. The participants in the sample included Black/African American, Asian American, Native Hawaii/Pacific Islander, and Latina/o non-academic administrators from institutions with less than 2,500 students.
Using a phenomenological design, I interviewed selected administrators twice using a modified version of Seidman's (2013) life history structure. Data analysis revealed six themes including the pathways into higher education, attraction to small liberal arts institutions, institutional culture, position empowerment, multiple hats/roles, and professional success. The findings suggest these administrators of color experience similar ERA processes as other administrators. These similarities include desiring to fit in, an on-going process of building trust, and enjoying the small family business environment of a small liberal arts institution. Unique findings included how participants valued their quality of life despite limited salaries at small liberal arts institutions. They also assimilated, code switched, and served as cultural guides, adding responsibilities to an already hard working group. Implications for higher education leaders concerning the importance of supporting administrators of color can be gleaned from these findings.Ph. D.
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Gore, Shanda Laine. "An Examination of Involvement Behaviors and Minority Student Retention at Academic Medical Institutions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1236199762.
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Foster, Sherrell Anthony. "Cutting up the melon: A case study of academic earmarking at selected institutions." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154066.
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McCabe, Bree A. "Character Strengths and Positive Institutions: Effects on Psychological Wellness." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1291053100.
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Cooper, David J. "Liquidity of depository institutions and the use of federal home loan bank advances." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1999. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/56.
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Omruuzun, Fatih. "A New Framework For Evaluation Of Field Based Academic Performances Of Higher Education Institutions." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613732/index.pdf.
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Measurement and evaluation of academic performance is an highly debated research area and results of the studies in this area are closely followed by a large segment of the society. In general, researches conducted in this domain evaluate higher education institutions as a whole, but such an approach actually represents an average performance of the research fields, which are actively studied by the members of institutions. This may be misleading, because academic performance varies for each university depending on the field of research. However, people who are interested in the results of these studies require more detailed information about field based academic performances of institutions.
One of these studies mentioned above have been implemented in 2011 by University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) research laboratory which was established in Middle East Technical University - Informatics Institute. In this study, 2000 universities around the world have been ranked according to multiple criteria in terms of overall academic performance.
Interests shown to results of the system implemented by URAP revealed a need for a more comprehensive ranking system, which deals with the evaluation of field based academic performance.
In this sense, within the scope of this study, universities ranked by URAP research laboratory were evaluated in terms of their academic performance in the following six research fieldsAgriculture &
Environmental Sciences (AGE) Clinical Medicine (MED) Engineering, Computing &
Technology (ENG) Life Sciences (LIFE) Natural Sciences (SCI) Social Sciences (SOC) Institutions in this study has been evaluated according to data that have been collected from ISI - Web of Knowledge for the indicators listed below. Article Count (last year) Total Document Count (last 5 years) Cumulative Journal Impact (last 5 years) Total Citation Count (last 5 years) H-Index (average of last 5 years) The results indicate that status of universities from the point of academic performance varies according to the research field.
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Kayitankore, Bernard Narcisse. "Foreign training of academic staff and capacity building in higher education institutions in Rwanda." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8864_1182227521.
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During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, not only physical assets were eroded but more importantly, human capital were destroyed and left the country living hardly on qualified personnel at almost all levels of the economy to play a meaningful development role. While capacity building is needed in many sectors of the economy, it is especially important in the education sector. This study focuses on one particular issue namely to what extent sending academic staff for training in foreign countries can effectively contribute to capacity building in Rwandan higher education institutions (HEI). Various options exist to improve a strategy to build capacities in higher education institutions
amongst others is the training of human resource which is the most important of all.
In order to investigate the above, both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. Techniques such as documentation, semi-structured interview, questionnaire and direct observation were also used in order to reach the research objectives. With regard to the main question of this study, findings reveal that funding academic staff for foreign training is believed to effectively contribute to capacity building in Rwandan higher education. As respondents explain, academic staff sent for training in foreign countries acquires new knowledge that is needed to build the country. This gained knowledge is spread all over the country through teaching at universities where most sectors of the country find their human resources. Being open minded, trained academic staff will be able to update his knowledge and therefore train in turn his students accordingly. However, findings inform also that Rwandan HEI are faced with multiple problems amongst others the problem of defining the real institutional needs for appropriate training. In this regard, findings suggest that for the training to be effective in Rwandan HEI there is a need of putting in place appropriate mechanisms and assessing institutional needs before training a person and training according to those specific needs in order to help the process of capacity building being more effective.
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Creagh, Morven Margaret. "The representation of academic institutions in literature of the GDR and the new Germany." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/55433.
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The study is in two parts. The first part examines the representation of the academic institute and the figure of the academic in GDR literature in the latter half of the GDR state’s existence. Specifically, it explores the interface between realist critiques of science and/or GDR academia and metaphorically coded critiques of the GDR state in a selection of texts by Christa Wolf, Helga Königsdorf and Günter de Bruyn. In this focus on the relationship between the realist and the metaphorical dimensions of the texts, my study differs from previous scholarship which has tended to foreground one or other aspect. A particular focus of this study are the ways in which these writers model the academic institute as a microcosm of the GDR state, with academic research projects standing for the GDR socialist project, and institutional dynamics representing social relations in the GDR. Having explored the relationship between the representation of the academic institute, the academic world and GDR society, I conclude the first part of this study by arguing that, perhaps surprisingly, there are similarities between these GDR ‘academia tales’ and the Anglo-American campus novel. Part Two of the study begins by examining the post-Wende representation of the restructuring, or Abwicklung, of the GDR academic establishment in texts by Helga Königsdorf and John Erpenbeck. This is followed by an overview of a series of texts in which the post-Wende experiences of east German academics, while treated more peripherally, nevertheless generate interesting readings. While there have been many historical and sociological analyses of academic Abwicklung, this is the first to examine literary treatments of the phenomenon. It explores the representation of academic Abwicklung both as a social issue in its own right, and as a starting point for broader political commentaries. Furthermore, by exploring the continued use of the academic institute as a metaphor for the GDR state, even after the latter’s collapse, this study supports the view that the Wende did not lead to an immediate reconceptualisation of political and aesthetic approaches in the literature produced by east German writers.
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Barkhuizen, Emmerentia Nicolene. "Work wellness of academic staff in South African higher education institutions / Emmerentia Nicolene Barkhuizen." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/713.
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Academia is a demanding profession, as evidenced by a body of research that documents the
debilitating impact of occupational stress and burnout on the personal and professional
welfare of academics. In particular, high levels of these pathological phenomena, left
unchecked, undermine the quality, productivity and creativity of the academics' work in
addition to their health, well-being and morale. Despite these indicators of "weaknesses" and
"malfunctioning", academics know that there is times that they operate in a "milieu" of work
- there is an intense focus and pleasurable emotions, accompanied by high levels of
enthusiasm. Especially, with the upcoming positive paradigm in Occupational Health
Psychology, "positive" trends such as work engagement, optimism, organisational
commitment and life satisfaction are also commonplace among academics. The first step in
the enhancement of work wellness is the successful diagnosis of stress, burnout and work
engagement. However, to measure these constructs, it is important to use reliable and valid
instruments, and at the same time, take into account the cultural diversity in a multicultural
setting such as South Africa. Clearly then, an assessment of this type should be concerned
with the issue of construct equivalency. Furthermore, little information exists regarding the
causes and effects of occupational stress, burnout and work engagement of academics in
South Africa.
The general aim of this study was to standardise an adapted version of the Maslach Burnout
Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) for
academics in South African higher education institutions, to determine their levels of
occupational stress, organisational commitment and ill-health, and to test a structural model
of work wellness for South African academics.
A cross-sectional survey design was used, with stratified random samples (N = 595) taken of
academics in six South African universities. The Maslach Burnout Inventory - General
Survey, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Job Characteristics Inventory, the Health and
Organisational Commitment subscales of the ASSET, The Life Orientation Test and
Satisfaction with Life Scale were administered. Cronbach alpha coefficients, exploratory
factor analysis, Pearson correlations, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), one-way
analysis of variance (ANOVA), t-tests and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse
the data. Structural equation modelling was used to test a structural model of work wellness.
Exploratory factor analysis with target rotations resulted in a three-factor model of burnout,
consisting of Exhaustion, Mental Distance and Professional Efficacy. The scales showed
acceptable internal consistencies and construct equivalence for two language groups.
Practically significant differences were found in the burnout levels of academics with regard
to their age, marital status and working hours.
Exploratory factor analysis with target rotations resulted in a two-factor model of work
engagement, consisting of Vigour/Dedication and Absorption. The scales showed acceptable
construct equivalence for two language groups (Afrikaans and English). One scale, namely
Vigour/Dedication showed acceptable internal consistency. Practically significant differences
were found between the work engagement of academics with different job levels and
qualifications.
Compared to the normative data, academics reported significantly high levels of stress
relating to pay and benefits, overload and work-life balance. Academics also reported high
levels of psychological ill-health, but experienced high levels of commitment both from and
towards their organisation. Organisational commitment did not moderate the effects of
occupational stress on ill-health. Analysis of variance revealed differences between the levels
of occupational stress and ill-health of demographic groups.
Regarding a model of work wellness, the results showed that job demands contributed to
burnout, while job resources contributed to work wellness (low burnout and high work
engagement). Burnout mediated the relationship between job demands and ill-health; work
wellness mediated the relationship between job resources and organisational commitment.
Dispositional optimism moderated the effects of a lack of job resources on work engagement.
Work wellness and health contributed to life satisfaction.
Recommendations for future research were made.Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
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Jordaan, Gertruida Magrietha Elizabeth. "Work engagement of academic staff in higher education institutions in South Africa / Girtie Jordaan." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/800.
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Academics in South Africa are being confronted with a work environment accumulated with
job demands, often without corresponding increases in job resources. Job demands and job
resources might affect the levels of work engagement of academics in higher education
institutions. Therefore, research is needed regarding work engagement of academics and the
relationship thereof with job demands and resources. The objectives of this study were to
investigate whether the UWES is a reliable and valid measure of work engagement for
academic staff in universities in South Africa and to assess the relationships between work
engagement, job demands and job resources.
A cross-sectional survey design was used. The study population (N = 471) consisted of
academic staff of the following universities: North-West University, University of Port
Elizabeth and University of the Orange Free State. The UWES, Job-Demands-Resources
Questionnaire and a biographical questionnaire was administered. The reliability and validity
of the measuring instruments were assessed with the use of Cronbach alpha coefficients, and
exploratory factor analysis. Descriptive statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations) were
used to analyse the data. Pearson correlations and multiple regression analyses were used to
assess the relationships between job demands, job resources and work engagement.
Principal component analysis resulted in a one-factor model of work engagement, consisting
of Vigour/Engagement. This factor showed an acceptable alpha coefficient. Regarding the
Job Demands-Resources Scale, five reliable factors were extracted, namely Organisational
Support, Growth Opportunities, Communion, Overload and Job Insecurity. The correlation
coefficients indicated that engagement is positively related to growth opportunities,
organisational support and communion. A regression analysis with engagement as dependent
variable indicated that organisational support and growth opportunities in the job were the
best predictors of work engagement. Job resources predicted 46% of the variance in work
engagement, but only two job resources, namely organisational support and growth
opportunities showed statistically significant regression coefficients.
Recommendations for future research are made.Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Ball, Jennie (Jennie Lou). "The Role of Contract Training by Academic Institutions in Corporate Education and Training Programs." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279355/.
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This study explored the role of contract training provided by North Texas higher education institutions in the education and training programs administered by area businesses employing more than 100 people. A survey instrument was mailed to corporate trainers that were members of the Dallas Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development in businesses employing more than 100 people. A total list of 292 trainers generated 71 usable responses. The purposes of this study were to: (a) determine the extent to which corporations use academic institutions for contract training, (b) determine the academic institutions in North Texas that training managers in the Dallas area believe are suitable contract training partners, (c) identify what subject areas are perceived as top educational priorities by training managers and are perceived to be suitable for contract training by academic institutions, (d) determine educational and training subjects for which corporations would be willing or prefer to utilize contract training by academic institutions, and (e) identify the subjects in which corporations currently use contract training by academic institutions.
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Jones, Tod. "Indonesian Cultural policy, 1950-2003 : culture, institutions, government /." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Media and Information, 2005. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16663.
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This thesis examines official cultural policy in Indonesia, focussing on the cultural policy of the national governments from 1950 until 2003. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings about government and debates about cultural policy in Cultural Studies, the study proposes that the features of cultural policy in Indonesia are primarily determined by the changing ways that the state has put culture to work in its versions of modern governance. Part I of the thesis provides a history of official cultural policy, including a background chapter on the late colonial era and the Japanese occupation. Although contemporary cultural policy was first articulated within Western liberal democracies to shape self-governing national citizens, the Dutch colonial cultural policy differed in that it assumed indigenous subjects had reduced capacities and focussed on managing ethnic populations. The cultural policies of subsequent governments maintained the twin imperatives of ‘improving’ individuals and managing populations, but with different understandings of both imperatives. While a more autonomous subject was assumed during Constitutional Democracy, Guided Democracy exercised greater state guidance as part of Sukarno’s mobilisation of the population behind his political program. Cultural policy during the New Order era rejected Sukarno’s ‘politicisation’ of culture, replaced ‘improvement’ with ‘development’ and further strengthened the role of the state in providing cultural guidance, a move justified by designating Indonesians backward by modern standards.The Japanese administration was the first government to address a national population. Relations among indigenous ethnic populations and between ethnicity and the nation were addressed in cultural policy from 1956 and were central to cultural policy throughout the New Order era. Part II of the thesis consists of two case studies of cultural programs in the New Order and Reform eras: (1) the arts councils and cultural parks and (2) a cultural research project. It explores New Order centralism, demonstrating the heterogeneity between different levels of the state and how governmental goals imbued particular practices and objects with special significance and meaning by constructing them as culture. Cultural policy in the post-Suharto period is addressed in both Parts I and II. While the practices of the New Order era are generally continuing, decentralisation created the possibility of a plurality of cultural policies across Indonesia, as lower levels of government are responsible for administering cultural policy. Decentralisation could result in a more participatory cultural policy as more cultural practices are addressed or a narrowing of cultural policy if conservative ethnic identity politics drives changes.
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Strike, Antony John. "Academic staff's career pathway design in English pre-1992 universities : contemporary evolution or systematic de-construction of Homo Academicus?" Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/72564/.
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In twenty-first century England, the emerging knowledge economy requires educated workers and the creation of new knowledge to fuel economic growth. The extension of opportunities in higher education is critical to social equity. Pressures of marketisation, massification and globalisation add to an agenda for change. For Universities to succeed in this pressurised environment, the response of academic staff – the most important resource in any institution – is critical. Against this background, there has been an emphasis from policy bodies and Universities on the need to improve the management of human resources. This research intended to describe what new academic career models were emerging, using field research through case studies. The research sought to examine a sample of higher education institutions’ promotion procedures and interview the authors of those documents. Having understood the formal context, examine through interviews the social reality of academics following careers in higher education. Using this inductive data, it was intended to generate possible career models to extrapolate, deductively using a survey questionnaire, to all English pre-1992 universities, the usage of the emergent models. Finally, explanations were sought for the models using statistical analysis, including secondary data. It was found that academic career models were localised, diversified and inclusive; differentially recognising variant contributions through new career routes. These career paths seemed to provide educationalists and researchers an opportunity to participate on equal terms with those following traditional careers. This conclusion seemed attractive as it recognised the changes observed and viewed them as institutionally strategic and academically benign. However, the trend towards a management-led division of academic labour, basing jobs on elements of a work process, tended to fractionalise the academic role and did not correlate with rank. This specialisation may represent the de-construction, or de-mystification, of the craft of academia by managers without clear performance gains. If what was observed was a varied occupation being broken down into describable elements, then what this study observed was the start of the destruction, rather than the evolution, of the craft profession that was academia. It was not clear the observed fractionalisation of academic roles, breaking apart the research-teaching nexus, was beneficial to the profession.
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Urairat, Yamchuti Rau William Charles Padavil George. "Factors influencing academic achievement of business administration department students in Thai private higher education institutions." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3064544.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2002.Title from title page screen, viewed January 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: William C. Rau, George Padavil (co-chairs), James Palmer, Phyllis McCluskey-Titus. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-120) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Joubert, Pierre André. "Sexual harassment of academic staff at higher education institutions in South Africa / Pierre André Joubert." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4765.
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The efforts to create an equal non-discriminatory South African society should also manifest in the workplace and, more specifically, in the academic arena. Academics are regarded as the leaders of society and the shapers of the future of a country. Their conduct should be of the highest ethical and moral standards, and no form of discrimination should be allowed by or against them. In terms of the Employment Equity Act, sexual harassment is a form of unfair discrimination and carries a substantial penalty should an employer be found guilty of vicarious liability. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived incidence of sexual harassment of academic staff at higher education institutions in South Africa, as well as their awareness of the policies dealing with sexual harassment. The sufficiency of the grievance procedures designed to deal with complaints of sexual harassment was also evaluated. A cross-sectional survey design was used to reach the research objectives. The Sexual Harassment Questionnaire (SHQ) was randomly distributed amongst a sample of 710 academic staff members from 10 higher education institutions in South Africa. A response rate of 22,8 percent (n = 162) was achieved. The statistical analysis was carried out using the SPSS 15.0 program (SPSS 2007), a program that is used to conduct statistical analysis regarding reliability and validity of the measuring instruments, descriptive statistics, /-tests, analysis of variance, correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis. Article 1 focuses on the perceived incidence of sexual harassment. In this article, five categories of sexual harassment were used as indicators of the incidence thereof, namely verbal, non-verbal, physical, gender and quid pro quo harassment. A statistically significant correlation coefficient with a large effect was found between verbal and non-verbal harassment. A practically significant correlation of a medium effect was also found between physical, verbal, non-verbal and quid pro quo harassment and sexism, as well as between the control item of sexual harassment and physical, verbal, non-verbal and quid pro quo harassment. Analyses of variance were performed on the different demographic groups using various variables and the findings indicate no practically significant effect of gender, age, population group or years of service on sexual harassment. In Article 2, the awareness of sexual harassment policies and procedures were determined. Various aspects of policies were investigated, such as content, development, types and implementation. The results show that despite indications that sexual harassment policies do exist and that they are regarded as effective tools in addressing sexual harassment, the implementation of such policies is not effective. In addition, few academic staff members receive training/guidance on the utilisation of these policies. Significant correlation coefficients were found between the elements of an effective policy and between population groups and some of the elements. Article 3 reports on findings regarding the sufficiency of grievance procedures in dealing with complaints of sexual harassment. The results show a positive correlation between confidence in the grievance procedure, the amount of attention that supervisors pay to grievances, regular feedback to employees regarding the progress of grievances, willingness of supervisors to take decisions, the amount of confidence in supervisors and the effectiveness of the procedure. The reluctance of management to deal with grievances unless they are reported via the grievance procedure was related to the perceived effectiveness of the procedure.Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.
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Anderson, Robert. "The establishment of a human research tissue banking service to academic and pharmacotoxicological research institutions." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366709.
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WARNECKE, LEA CHARLOTTE. "Organizational Buying Behavior of Biotech-Oriented Academic Institutions : A Case Study of Sartorius Stedim Biotech." Thesis, KTH, Industriell marknadsföring, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189459.
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Lately the pharmaceutical industry is confronted with newly emerging needs which puts firms under a high cost pressure. As a result pharmaceutical equipment provider such as Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) are affected by that in a similar way trying to deliver products and services that promise best value for money. A so-called go-to-market project should serve to evaluate each customers’ sales potential in order to allocate resources accordingly. Hence, ome market segments such as the “academic market” which is comprised of research institutes and academic institutions (=colleges and universities) with biotech-oriented study programs needed to be disregarded. Therefore, this thesis investigated the organizational buying behavior of academic institutions in order to advise the product management department Fermentation Technologies (FRT) how to improve marketing efforts of the Biostat® A to get it marketed and sold, given the go-to-market limitations. To find a solution to this problem, a case study of FRT and their Biostat® A at SSB has been conducted. Data has been collected through five company interviews, six customer interviews with different institutions as well as through a customer survey with overall 69 respondents 59 from Germany, 10 from the UK). This study identified that there is a current misbalance of the Biostat® A’s marketing mix. Further, the academic institutions’ bioreactor procurement process could be outlined and everal aspects influencing their buying behavior were identified. In addition it was found that academic institutions demand the personal contact to their bioreactor suppliers, not wanting to be visited on a regular basis while using the internet as a main information source. Based on above findings, the advice to FRT is to establish a direct marketing approach with telesales to realize a market pull. Given the go-to-market limitations this presents a solution that creates a direct customer response, establishes customer relationships and is of a cost-efficient nature.
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Buggs, Michelle L. "The Relationship of Peer Leadership Employment to Academic Outcomes in Texas Institutions of Higher Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799467/.
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship of participation and involvement in an undergraduate student success program to academic success and persistence among students in three programs sponsored by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB): the G-Force Collegiate Work-Study Mentorship Program, the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) for Higher Education (AHE) program, and the THECB work-study program. The sample was identified using data from the THECB during the 2009-2013 academic years. Compared to THECB work-study students, significantly more AHE and G-Force students persisted toward graduation while engaged in the program (p < .001). ANOVA indicated that AHE students had a higher average GPA compared to G-Force and THECB work-study students, controlled for gender, race/ethnicity, pre-program GPA, and length of time in the position. Regression analyses found no statistically significant relationship between program associations and persistence towards graduation or GPA. Results suggest that although participation in a peer leadership programs such as AHE and G-Force encourage greater academic achievement and persistence, there is no direct relation to the achievement of these outcome variables. Implications of the study suggest the need for a deeper analysis into elements of peer leadership programs that contribute to student success, an expanded analysis of outcomes across a wider range of demographic variables, and an exploration of peer leadership programs across campuses for comparison of persistence and GPA outcomes.
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Burnley, M. Caroline E. (Mary Caroline Elizabeth) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Sexual harassment in academic institutions: the effects of grievance procedures on deliberation processes and outcomes." Ottawa, 1994.
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Conner, Christina A. "Constitutionality of affirmative action programs in institutions of higher learning : Grutter v. Bollinger." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2003. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/313.
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Houston, Melissa. "The Experiences of Faculty at Academic Institutions Preparing Themselves for Academic Continuity after a Disaster in Florida in the Last Decade| A Phenomenological Study." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10106247.
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Administrators, students and faculty employed at or attending academic institutions in Florida have experienced numerous disasters in the last decade. Political pressures, financial restraints, and recent legislation has led to administrators’ at academic institutions to rely upon online education as a viable means for delivering education to students anytime and anywhere. Administrators at academic institutions have utilized online education as a way to ensure that academic continuity takes place while campuses are physically closed or are recovering from damages during and after disaster. There is a gap in the research as to how to best prepare faculty for academic continuity after disasters occur. The lack of available research regarding how faculty members at academic institutions prepared themselves prior to a disaster served as a major rationale for this study. The problem that was addressed in this phenomenological study was to identify the support needed by faculty to provide academic continuity during and after times of disaster in Florida. The purpose of the phenomenological study was to provide further knowledge and understanding of the support needed by faculty to provide academic continuity after a disaster. Data collection from this study will help human resource professionals as well as administrators of academic institutions to better prepare faculty to provide academic continuity in the future. Participants were recruited on LinkedIn and were qualified as having been faculty who taught traditional courses during disasters that occurred between 2004 and 2014 in Florida at accredited academic institutions. Faculty members were asked a series of open-ended questions to gain understanding of their experiences of how they prepared themselves for academic continuity prior to disasters. The findings from this study showed that faculty members identified assistance needed including professional development in the form of training and support, communication, and technological resources in order to provide academic continuity. The first conclusion from this study was that academic institutions need to support their students, staff and faculty with disaster training and the resources needed to provide academic continuity during and after disasters. The second conclusion from this study is that while disasters and other academic institution incidents are occurring more frequently, limited funding and the push for online education has created limited resources for academic institutions. The need to create partnerships and consortiums with other academic institutions and communities is crucial for the success and sustainability of academic institutions. Through these partnerships and consortiums academic institutions can share resources, knowledge, and training (Morris, 2013).
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Ahmed, Jalil. "The experiences of black academic staff in further and higher education institutions in North West England." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635646.
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This thesis is based on an investigation of the experiences of academic staff in further and higher education in North West England. The research idea arose out of concern that black academic staff in further and higher education may not be experiencing equal opportunities in their institutions due to their racial background. There was also concern that, despite many colleges and universities having adopted equal opportunities policies, informal practices and a lack of commitment towards racial equality matters may be acting against the interest of potential black staff. The research process consisted of two stages. Firstly, literature was reviewed to provide a theoretical base for understanding the experiences of black academic staff. The second stage consisted of data generation and had four components. The first component was a postal survey of personnel officers to find out their views on various aspects of equal opportunities. This was followed by a postal questionnaire of full-time black academic staff in selected further and higher education institutions in North West England. The third component consisted of interviewing black academic staff. Finally, equal opportunities policies of further and higher education institutions were obtained. A total of 38 out of a possible 45 further and higher education institutions responded to the first questionnaire. Altogether 103 black academic staff completed the postal questionnaire. Interviews were conducted with 30 agreeing black staff. Equal opportunities policy statements were provided by 40 institutions. The research findings indicate that black academics experienced a certain amount of frustration at the lack of positive outcomes, despite all the further and higher education institutions having adopted equal opportunities policies. These findings were supported by a number of personnel officers who expressed a degree of unwillingness on part of the management to fully implement the race equality aspect of their equal opportunities policies. The findings confirm that some black staff were viewed through the 'race lens' and black academics argued that white managers were as likely to be influenced by racial discourse as any other group in society. Responses would suggest that black staff experienced a greater level of discrimination in further education colleges compared to higher education. In extreme cases some white staff made overtly racist comments about black colleagues and black students. Overall about a quarter of black academics indicated that their experience was one of lack of opportunities, marginalisation and isolation. Finally, evidence suggests that there is a considerable level of discrimination in the post-compulsory sector, more so in further education than in higher education and racial justice has yet to be experienced by many black academic staff. The study concludes by recommending the areas in which improvement could be made by the universities and colleges and also indicates direction for further research.
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Mtegha, Dorothy Mercy Nur-Awaleh Mohamed A. "An exploration of faculty and academic leaders' perceptions of leadership styles in Malawian higher education institutions." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128284.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.Title from title page screen, viewed Oct. 15, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Mohamed A. Nur-Awaleh (chair), W. Paul Vogt, Dianne Gardner-Gletty, George Padavil. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-161) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Lumley, Risa Maureen. "THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A Q-STUDY OF LIBRARIAN ATTITUDES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/418.
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This study took place on the campus of a Hispanic-serving institution, and used Q methodology to assess the attitudes and perceptions of academic librarians toward a social justice role for the university library. Among librarians and others in higher education, there is a great deal of confusion around social justice as a concept because over the past forty years, it has often been subsumed under, or diverted by the neoliberal discourse of multicultural education, which conflates social justice with providing equal opportunities for under-represented students primarily as a means of enabling them to obtain jobs and become consumers in our neoliberal capitalist society. Unfortunately, this perspective dovetails neatly with the positivist traditions of the library profession, which also eschews political involvement and exhorts librarians to remain neutral in the services and collections they provide. Within this discourse, universities and their libraries are stripped of their political and social potential for addressing the structural problems and inequalities which circumscribe the lives of the very students they purport to serve.
The results of this study indicate that many librarians believe that their profession’s ethos of neutrality renders the debate over social justice within the library moot. These librarians equate social justice as equivalent to giving equal access to materials that promote the advancement of marginalized groups, and to those that encourage the continuation of the status quo or opposition to equality. Only a small number of librarians envision themselves as well positioned to promote social justice by empowering students to use the resources currently available within the library.
Despite the different viewpoints represented by the factors uncovered in this study, there did emerge areas of consensus from which library leaders can mediate conversations aimed at uncovering and evaluating the principles, practices, and attitudes within the library that arise from the dominant White worldview and hinder the library’s ability to serve all students equitably. Conversations about topics such as those implicated in this study, including institutional racism, diversity, social justice, and White privilege are not always comfortable conversations, but they are required if the library is to enact the changes necessary to allow it to serve all students more effectively and more justly. These discussions are especially needed at this time, when academic librarians as a profession remain 86 percent White, while many of our campuses are becoming increasingly racially diverse. If the library is to retain its place as the center of social and political discourse within the university, it is critical that it fully represent and respect the perspectives of non-dominant groups and recognize alternative epistemologies. Breaking with the positivist traditions of the library will allow opportunities for librarians to authentically connect with more of our students, which is particularly needed at Hispanic-serving institutions.
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Locke, William David. "The changing dynamics of UK higher education institutions in an increasingly marketised environment : academic work and rankings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10038660/.
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The integrative summary for this PhD by Publication, and the five publications on which it is based, address two related strands of the study of higher education. These are (i) the shifting patterns of academic work and careers in the UK, and (ii) the influence of rankings on higher education institutions (HEIs). These strands are understood in a common context: the increasingly competitive and globalised HE environment in which HEIs are responding to external pressures and internal anxieties in dynamic and highly differentiated ways, according to their ranking positions, missions, reputation and resources. The three research publications on the academic profession, work and careers focus on the diversification and stratification of higher education institutions and those who work in them. In particular, they explore the relationships between research and teaching and the increasing predominance of the former over the latter in the reputations of HEIs and the career opportunities for individual academics in various roles and at different career stages. The new, hierarchical, divisions of labour, I argue, are reducing opportunities and threatening the sustainability of the profession itself, such that it is in need of reinvigoration and renewal. The two research publications on the influence of rankings on HEIs explore the ways in which the rationales and processes – the logic – of ranking systems are being internalised and, ultimately, institutionalised by individual universities in different ranking positions and at different stages of accommodation. They investigate how this logic becomes embedded in organisational structures and procedures and established as the norm, and shed light on the variable responses of different types of institution and the different parts within an institution. Finally, they show how these responses unfold over time, for example, from initial scepticism and resistance, to reluctant acceptance and, ultimately, active engagement with rankings systems.
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Jones, Tod. "Indonesian cultural policy, 1950-2003: culture, institutions, government." Thesis, Curtin University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/403.
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This thesis examines official cultural policy in Indonesia, focussing on the cultural policy of the national governments from 1950 until 2003. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings about government and debates about cultural policy in Cultural Studies, the study proposes that the features of cultural policy in Indonesia are primarily determined by the changing ways that the state has put culture to work in its versions of modern governance. Part I of the thesis provides a history of official cultural policy, including a background chapter on the late colonial era and the Japanese occupation. Although contemporary cultural policy was first articulated within Western liberal democracies to shape self-governing national citizens, the Dutch colonial cultural policy differed in that it assumed indigenous subjects had reduced capacities and focussed on managing ethnic populations. The cultural policies of subsequent governments maintained the twin imperatives of ‘improving’ individuals and managing populations, but with different understandings of both imperatives. While a more autonomous subject was assumed during Constitutional Democracy, Guided Democracy exercised greater state guidance as part of Sukarno’s mobilisation of the population behind his political program. Cultural policy during the New Order era rejected Sukarno’s ‘politicisation’ of culture, replaced ‘improvement’ with ‘development’ and further strengthened the role of the state in providing cultural guidance, a move justified by designating Indonesians backward by modern standards.The Japanese administration was the first government to address a national population. Relations among indigenous ethnic populations and between ethnicity and the nation were addressed in cultural policy from 1956 and were central to cultural policy throughout the New Order era. Part II of the thesis consists of two case studies of cultural programs in the New Order and Reform eras: (1) the arts councils and cultural parks and (2) a cultural research project. It explores New Order centralism, demonstrating the heterogeneity between different levels of the state and how governmental goals imbued particular practices and objects with special significance and meaning by constructing them as culture. Cultural policy in the post-Suharto period is addressed in both Parts I and II. While the practices of the New Order era are generally continuing, decentralisation created the possibility of a plurality of cultural policies across Indonesia, as lower levels of government are responsible for administering cultural policy. Decentralisation could result in a more participatory cultural policy as more cultural practices are addressed or a narrowing of cultural policy if conservative ethnic identity politics drives changes.
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Ashford, Rebecca Lynn. "Home School Versus Other Applicants to Postsecondary Institutions: Admission Policies and In-Depth Analysis." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3213.
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In this study, 94 colleges and universities in Florida were surveyed to determine what their admission policies were for home school applicants. Forty-six colleges responded to the survey. The results of the survey were analyzed to determine if there was a pattern of acceptance based on institution type--public, private, or proprietary. Further, the admission policies were analyzed to determine the extent to which they complied with the National Center for Home Education's (NCHE) recommend college admission policies for home school applicants. The researcher found that public colleges were more likely to accept home school students than were private colleges. Also, public colleges had less stringent admission requirements for home school students than did private colleges. Further, home school admission policies in place in Florida's public colleges were more likely to comply with the NCHE's recommended admission policies for home school applicants. In addition to reviewing college admission policies for home school students, the standardized test scores and grade point averages of home school and public school students enrolled in a Florida, public community college were compared. The standardized test scores compared were the College Placement Test (CPT) and the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT). The researcher found no difference in the mean grade point averages of home school and public school students enrolled in a Florida, public community college. Also, the researcher found no difference in the mean CPT algebra, CPT reading, or SAT mathematics scores of home school and public school students. There was, however, a significant difference in the CPT writing and SAT verbal scores for these two groups of students. Home school students scored significantly higher than public school students on the CPT writing and the SAT verbal tests.Ed.D.
Department of Educational Research, Technology and Leadership
Education
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Cothron, Christine. "A Comparative Analysis of Public Postsecondary Workforce Education Institutions in Florida, Georgia, and Kentucky." UNF Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/337.
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This research was a descriptive cross-site case study of organizational structures of public workforce education institutions in the states of Florida, Georgia, and Kentucky. Organizational structures in public workforce education institutions can be found in four basic designs: technical centers, technical colleges, community colleges, and community and technical colleges. The purpose of this study was to investigate the concept of organizational structure in terms of the operation and effectiveness of workforce education institutions by studying four workforce institutions operating under differing arrangements.
This study investigated the following research questions: 1. Does organizational structure influence specific outcome factors for and between selected workforce education institutions? 2. Does organizational structure influence the processes and operations of workforce education institutions as reflected through a comparative policy analysis of the selected workforce education institutions?
The study was conducted as a cross-site analysis of case studies of the selected schools to develop justified patterns of successful factors among schools. Data were collected during semi-structured interviews by audiotape recording and then transcribed. After making site visits to each school both qualitative interview data and quantitative program and institutional data were used for analysis of factors and characteristics that were linked to success by the school. Upon the completion of the four case studies, a comparative analysis was performed to discover the relationships among the participating schools through their commonalities and differences.
Each of these organizational structures provided evidence of the production of successful graduates from their workforce programs. Although differences existed in the student completion rates and enrollment to completion ratio for the selected schools, every school had effectively placed their students in training-related jobs after program completion. As opposed to the individual institutions, the four organizational structures are a reflection of equifinality in that each structure is organized, governed, funded, and operated differently, and yet they each produce graduates who can successfully occupy technical career positions in the workforce.
These schools have successfully developed the ability to be organizationally adaptable in order to sustain their existence. The study discovered that organizational structure may not be the central factor to determine the success or failure of an institution. But organizational structure should not be ignored for it does appear that institutions devoted only to workforce goals have a history of greater student completion. The study also produced the following six recommended practices for inclusion in all organizational structures. Public workforce institutions should have a dedicated local governing board; state level governance; integral participation in the state's economic development effort; precise program delivery processes; required strategic planning; and a supportive state legislature educated about the needs of workforce education.
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Kwon, Ki-Seok. "Universities' academic research and knowledge-transfer activities in a catch-up country : the case of Korea." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2337/.
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The main research topic of this study is universities' academic research and knowledge-transfer activities in a catch-up country, particularly the relationship between the two activities, which has been rarely examined in previous research. In order to understand this issue against existing literature, a critical review of previous studies has been attempted, considering the idiosyncratic characteristics of the Korean national innovation system. As a result, at the three analysis levels (i.e. national, organisational and individual levels), we propose three conceptual elements respectively: a tentative historical path of universities in catch-up countries; critical factors influencing knowledge transfer activities of universities in catch-up countries; and academics operating in synergy mode. Thereafter, based on the methodology integrating not only the three analysis levels but also qualitative and quantitative approaches, we analyse the data collected from the interviews with Korean academics, survey responses from Korean academics and government White Papers on the activities of Korean universities. The results show a close and positive relationship between Korean universities' academic research and knowledge-transfer activities across the three levels. Firstly, during the last several decades, the Korean government has strongly encouraged the development of teaching, academic research and knowledge-transfer activities of Korean universities in harmony with the different developmental stages of Korean industry. This has resulted in selective patterns of the universities' three activities (e.g. concentration of scientific activities in certain fields). Secondly, organisational factors such as scientific capacity and industry funding are important for universities' knowledge-transfer activities in a catch-up country, which corroborates the positive relationship between the two activities. Finally, in terms of the factors influencing the synergy mode (i.e. a positive relationship between academic research and knowledge-transfer activities), academics' career stage and disciplines are important. This is related to the rapid expansion of the Korean academic system and the selectivity found in its activities. Based on these findings, it is tempting to conclude that universities in East Asian catch-up countries have developed their own academic system different from those in developed countries, which can be characterised as having strong government control and a high level of interaction with other actors in the national innovation system. Therefore, the application of the controversy over the direct economic contribution of universities in western countries to the context of catch-up countries is quite limited.
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Crist, Barbara E. "A study of the relationship of the job satisfaction of chief academic officers of institutions of higher education and the perceived leadership style of the institution's president." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=775.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 146 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-170).
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Vega, Carlos Enrique. "Latino College Student Athletes As Nepantleras: Fostering Academic Success And Athletic Identity At Two Ncaa Division Ii Institutions." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1076.
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Collegiate athletic programs at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Division II institutions in the United States serve a two-fold purpose. They offer aspiring
student athletes access to college and opportunities to play competitive college sports.
Consequently, student athletes at Division II institutions experience personal and
institutional pressures to compete for championships while achieving academic success.
Increasing demands on today’s college student athletes’ athletic participation and
performance has a multitude of consequences that could influence their academic
performance and success in college. Simultaneously, these institutions and athletic
programs are also witnessing another phenomenon – a transformation in their student
population. Latino college student athlete matriculation continues to increase every year,
mirroring their non-student athlete counterparts in higher education. Their increased
enrollment on these college campuses necessitates higher education researchers to better
understand this understudied population. In furthering that endeavor, this inquiry sought
to illuminate an overarching research question: how does a Latino college athlete’s racial
identity influence their academic success and athletic performance?
Guided by Gloria Anzaldúa’s Theory of Borderlands (Borderlands/La Frontera: The
New Mestiza, 2012), this two-part qualitative study invited seven Latino college student
athletes’ to examine their racial-ethnic identity, their academic success, and their athletic
participation in Division II competitive sports. Through 12 semi-structured open-ended
interviews, the researcher examined the intersections between Latino student athletes’
motivation to do well in their respective sport and their motivation to perform well
academically. Among the major findings of this study, participants strongly identified
themselves as Nepantleras – border crossers who possessed an intrinsic ability to
seamlessly cross the world of academics and the world of athletics. Their movement
across these dual world realities, in addition to balancing the expectations of their Latino
familias y culturas, resulted in the participants rejecting the idea of one or the other
(student or athlete) and claiming a singular identity: Soy Estudiante Deportista.
Understanding and engaging with Latino college student athletes’ academic and athletic
experiences at Division II institutions is vital for college faculty, athletic directors,
coaches, student affairs professionals, and institutional administrators invested in their
success. This study offers these institutional agents recommendations to best support their
student athletes.
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Wilkins, Rhonda Dayle. "Swimming Upstream: A Study of Black Males and the Academic Pipeline." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/1.
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ABSTRACT SWIMMING UPSTREAM: A STUDY OF BLACK MALES AND THE ACADEMIC PIPELINE Rhonda D. Wilkins Post secondary participation and graduation rates of Black males are declining rapidly. Black women, however, are realizing substantial growth in both of these areas and account for the majority of the increase in Black student college enrollment. This qualitative case study addresses the decline in Black male participation in higher education by focusing on six Black men who completed college programs and the academic pipeline that brought them to their degree. The purpose of the research inquiry was to determine various factors that either helped or hindered the academic progression of the six Black male participants. For the study participants the two-year college was a component of their academic pipeline and was assessed based on its function as a conduit aiding degree attainment. The common factors that emerged from the findings as influential to the academic progression of the six Black males were categorized as: (a) personal attributes and perceptions, (b) relationships and external influences, and (c) institutional factors. The personal attributes of the participants included self-efficacy, endurance and resilience, and self-regulation. These attributes were framed within the central context of personal agency. Factors external to the participants consisted of family messages about higher education, role models, mentors and advocates, early exposure to college and participation in athletic sports. The institutional factors that surfaced were insufficient college preparation in high school, contrasts between the climate and culture of the two-year college and four-year institution, the lack of promotion of the transfer function at the two-year college. Race and gender were also considered relative to the men and their experiences with the academic pipeline. The salient factors included: (a) the general social and economic conditions faced by young Black males, (b) the perpetuation of negative or one-dimensional stereotypes in the media, (c) pre-college educational inequities, (d) the lack of assistance with college transition, and (e) the unwelcoming climates and lack of Black faculty at predominately white institutions. The study concluded that Black males may face many hurdles to postsecondary attainment and will therefore require personal, family, community, and institutional forces to push them through the academic pipeline.
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Kim, Hyŏng-ju. "IT goes to school : interactions between higher education institutions and information technology companies in U.S. metropolitan areas /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5626.
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Monk, Thelma Y. "Variables Associated With Academic Achievement of African-American Males in Four-Year Undergraduate Educational Institutions: a Synthesis of Studies." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30754.
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This project was a synthesis of studies of the academic achievement of African-American males in undergraduate, four-year institutions in the United States. The purpose of this synthesis was twofold. The first purpose was to collect studies on the academic achievement of African-American males. The second purpose was to identify variables associated with achievement of African-American males.
In this review of 13 studies, 48 variables associated with academic achievement of undergraduate, African-American males were identified. These variables were placed into three categories: personal variables, demographic variables, and institutional variables. Personal variables were sub-divided into non-cognitive and cognitive variables. Findings specific to each category of variables are included below:
Personal, non-cognitive variables. African-American males with high scores on measures of educational aspirations, values (courage, exciting life, cleanliness, imagination, and helpfulness), emotional intelligence, acceptability of mixed dating, self-confidence, satisfaction with academic advising and tutoring, being in control of academic outcomes, preference for long-term goals, academic self-concept, self-esteem, self-concept of ability, specific personality traits (achievement aspirations, affiliation, dominance, endurance, exhibition, harm avoidance, nurturance, order, play, and understanding), favorable opinions of their study habits and relationships with others, and low scores on alienation and reliance on family and institutions to solve social and academic problems had higher grade-point averages than those with contrasting scores on these variables. Encouragement from family and other role models appears to be associated with academic achievement of African-American male undergraduates as well.
Personal, cognitive variables. African-American males with high grades in high school, high class ranks in high school, and high scores on college entrance examinations had higher college grade-point averages than those with lower high school grades, high school ranks, and entrance examination scores.
Demographic variables. Non-transfer, younger students in nondevelopmental and humanities and arts programs were more likely to persist in college than transfer and older students in developmental and math and science programs. Participants in a math workshop achieved higher grade-point averages in a freshman calculus course than students who did not participate in the workshop.
Institutional variables. African-American males who attended predominantly black colleges and universities earned higher grade-point averages than those who attended predominantly white colleges and universities. African-American males who attended four-year institutions earned higher grade-point averages than those who attended community colleges. Those on both black and white campuses who scored higher on a college environment opinion survey covering academic integration, satisfaction with the campus environment, and institutional support achieved higher grade-point averages than those who scored lower on the survey. For those on white campuses who came from high schools with very different racial compositions from those of the colleges they were attending achieved higher grade-point averages than students who came from high schools with very similar racial compositions to those of the colleges they were attending.
In conclusion, academic achievement of undergraduate African-American males is associated with a combination of personal variables, demographic variables and institutional variables. The majority of these variables are personal, non-cognitive variables.Ph. D.
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Beckerman, Jason. "Accessing the learning lifeworld : transformative student learning experiences in regional academic travel at New York University Abu Dhabi." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2034119/.
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This thesis investigates the learning experiences of students who participated in short-term study abroad trips (also known as regional academic travel) offered by New York University Abu Dhabi’s Office of Global Education, with the objective of attaining an authentic account of these experiences. This authentic account supports a better understanding of a student’s experience, and leads to a more in-depth understanding of learning, which for this research is called the learning lifeworld. Phenomenography is used to capture the qualitative variation of individual experiences leading to four categories of description placed in logical relationship to one another yielding an outcome space of four conceptions of learning experience. Phenomenography alone, while reflective in nature, has limitations on determining an authentic account of experience. Therefore, it is helpful to draw upon reflective thinking ability, which produces information on each student’s ability to reason through an ill-structured problem, and puts students in a reflective thinking development stage, which is linked to a student’s critical reflection ability. Reflective judgment stages for each student were determined using the standard reflective judgment interview (King & Kitchener, 1994), and then compared against the instances conceptions of learning experience that appeared in each student account. A relationship was identified between instances of conceptions and the level of a student’s reflective thinking ability that could lead to a deeper understanding of the learning lifeworld through the language students used in responses from the phenomenographic interview and the reflective judgment interview. The findings of this research show that there were at least four qualitatively different ways students experienced regional academic travel trips. The categories developed through an analysis of student reflective accounts are: the regional academic travel experience complements and supplements classroom learning; develops academic skills; affects students’ future academic, personal, and professional endeavours; and offers students a chance to reflect on impacts they have made and can make in a community and the world. The results of this research make an original contribution to lifeworld theory, transformative learning, and short-term study abroad research by utilizing a unique combination of research approaches (phenomenography and reflective judgment to inform lifeworld theory and transformative learning) in a novel setting (NYU Abu Dhabi regional academic travel). The design of this research could be used for future studies to examine learning in an in-depth way, whilst assuring that the accounts given could be considered authentic. Finally, the results also led to recommendations for improvement of future regional academic travel trips offered by The Office of Global Education.