Take a candid look into how some traditional liberal arts colleges have incorporated nontraditional adult degree programs. This volume of case studies shows how a number of small, independent universities addressed various administrative and service functions for their adult programs. When taken together, it captures the emulsive nature of this imperfect blend as well as the fluidity of solutions.
This issue covers:
The dynamics that an adult program can bring to an institution
Colleges that combine the adult program within university-wide, centralized...
Take a candid look into how some traditional liberal arts colleges have incorporated nontraditional adult degree programs. This volume of case stud...
This volume focuses on the goals, practices, policies, and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college credit. This volume examines:
The details of dual enrollment programs
Their impact on student achievement and institutional practices
How they support a student's transition to, and success in, college
The role of higher education in improving K-12 education.
It presents quantitative and qualitative studies that investigate the impact of dual enrollment programs on student and faculty...
This volume focuses on the goals, practices, policies, and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college cre...
Take an in-depth look at the difficulty in gaining traction at the institutional level in improving student retention and degree completion rates--especially at larger four year institutions where size, complexity, and multiplicity of structures and processes present particular challenges.
This volume offers a way for institutional leaders to better focus their time, energy, and resources in their retention effort by framing the way they think about it using the 4 Ps of retention strategy: profile, progress, process, and promise. This simple framework challenges long-standing,...
Take an in-depth look at the difficulty in gaining traction at the institutional level in improving student retention and degree completion rates--...
Diversity is defined as those numerous elements of difference between groups of people that play significant roles in social institutions, including (but not limited to) race and ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, and culture. Since doctoral degree recipients go on to assume roles as faculty and educators, diversity in doctoral programs is significant. By supporting graduate diversity across the academic disciplines, universities ensure that the nation's intellectual capacities and opportunities are fully realized.
The authors consider diversity...
Diversity is defined as those numerous elements of difference between groups of people that play significant roles in social institutions, includin...
In 2007, wanting to expand higher education's civic engagement conversation, the Association of American Colleges and Universities launched the Core Commitments Initiative. That initiative focused attention on personal and social responsibility as outcomes of a college education, with the understanding that such a focus would return American higher education to its historical purpose of preparing active and engaged citizens. Expanding the conversation this way leaves room for behavioral measures, like voting or hours spent in community service, but also opens our understanding of citizenship...
In 2007, wanting to expand higher education's civic engagement conversation, the Association of American Colleges and Universities launched the Core C...
Most research on learning tends to occur in silos based on stakeholder perspective. This volume seeks to break down these silos and draw together scholars who research learning from different perspectives to highlight commonalities in learning for students, faculty, and institutions. When we understand how learning is experienced across the institution, we can develop strategies that help support, enhance, and reinforce learning for all.
Exploring what it means to bridge learning across the institution, this volume provides a roadmap to improve learning for all. Both scholarly and...
Most research on learning tends to occur in silos based on stakeholder perspective. This volume seeks to break down these silos and draw together s...
Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, -I am a college graduate, - that new status becomes a part of who they are.
The authors in this volume--scholars from a range of fields--offer methods that staff and faculty can use to explore the process through which students develop new personal, civic, and professional identities. The research and ideas in this volume can assist in designing approaches to encourage student growth, and to help us understand what it means to attend and become a graduate of a college...
Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, -I am a college graduate, - th...
Undergraduate research is a high-impact practice that sparks students' interest in learning, and it improves retention, student success, graduation rates, and postgraduation achievement. Many individual campuses have offered these programs for several years, and the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has partnered with state systems of higher education and public and private consortia to foster the institutionalization of undergraduate research.
This volume illustrates many of the successes that entire systems/consortia and their campuses have achieved, such as:
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Undergraduate research is a high-impact practice that sparks students' interest in learning, and it improves retention, student success, graduation...
