Download or read book Faculty and Student Perspectives of an Academic Partnership Between Two Small Liberal Arts Colleges written by Jennifer J. Rickard and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similar to alliances between business entities, collaboration among small liberal arts colleges has taken many different forms over the years. Such relationships in higher education include but are not limited to cross-registration agreements, purchasing consortia, shared academic programs, cooperative library systems, and technology collaborations. As Neal (1988) asserts, through cooperation institutions can "achieve more, do something better, or reduce the cost of an activity" (p. 3). Such partnerships can be particularly important for small liberal arts colleges that often lack the economies of scale and financial resources of larger universities. The bulk of research conducted on higher education partnerships has focused on the perspectives and experiences of trustees, presidents, and administrators involved with developing and supporting collaborative relationships. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how students and faculty perceive the curricular relationship between Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges. Using literature on interorganizational relationships as a framework, the research questions this study explored included: (a) How do students and faculty perceive the purpose of curricular collaboration? (b) How do students and faculty perceive the dynamics of the relationship? (c) How do students and faculty measure the success of the relationship for themselves personally and for the institution? Findings included the discovery of a complex array of relationships that are sustained on a daily basis as a result of the partnership. Despite this complexity and no central administrative structure to manage it, the relationship appears to be quite successful as measured by the frequency of cross-registering and cross-majoring and by the general perceptions among faculty and students that the "Bi-College" is its own entity. While almost everyone acknowledged that the relationship was critical to each institution's success, a lack of clarity about the partnership's direction, some logistical issues, and the existence of uninformed impressions of the other institution conveyed by some faculty and students could possibly undermine the future potential of the partnership. The results of this research provide college leaders engaged in cooperative relationships with an example of how faculty and students perceive the dynamics of a long-standing academic relationship between two small, private, liberal arts colleges.
Download or read book Pedagogical Partnerships written by Alison Cook-Sather and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogical Partnerships and its accompanying resources provide step-by-step guidance to support the conceptualization, development, launch, and sustainability of pedagogical partnership programs in the classroom and curriculum. This definitive guide is written for faculty, students, and academic developers who are looking to use pedagogical partnerships to increase engaged learning, create more equitable and inclusive educational experiences, and reframe the traditionally hierarchical structure of teacher-student relationships. Filled with practical advice, Pedagogical Partnerships provides extensive materials so that readers don't have to reinvent the wheel, but rather can adapt time-tested and research-informed strategies and techniques to their own unique contexts and goals.
Download or read book Faculty as Global Learners written by Joan Gillespie and published by Lever Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This co-authored collection offers valuable insights about the impact of leading off-campus study on faculty leaders’ teaching, research, service, and overall well-being. Recognizing that faculty leaders are themselves global learners, the book addresses ways that liberal arts colleges can more effectively achieve their strategic goals for students' global learning by intentionally anticipating and supporting the needs of faculty leaders, as they grow and change. Faculty as Global Learners offers key findings and recommendations to stimulate conversations among administrators, faculty, and staff about concrete actions they can explore and steps they can take on their campuses to both support faculty leaders of off-campus programs and advance strategic institutional goals for global learning. This collection includes transferrable pedagogical insights and the perspectives of faculty members who have led off-campus study programs in a variety of disciplines and geographic regions.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges written by Vicki L. Baker and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Faculty Members in Liberal Arts Colleges analyzes the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions. Drawing on research conducted at the thirteen institutions of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Vicki L. Baker, Laura Gail Lunsford, and Meghan J. Pifer propose a compelling Alignment Framework for Faculty Development in Liberal Arts Colleges to show how these colleges succeed—or sometimes fail—in providing their faculties with the right support to be successful.
Download or read book Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching written by Alison Cook-Sather and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to developing productive student-faculty partnerships in higher education Student-faculty partnerships is an innovation that is gaining traction on campuses across the country. There are few established models in this new endeavor, however. Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty offers administrators, faculty, and students both the theoretical grounding and practical guidelines needed to develop student-faculty partnerships that affirm and improve teaching and learning in higher education. Provides theory and evidence to support new efforts in student-faculty partnerships Describes various models for creating and supporting such partnerships Helps faculty overcome some of the perceived barriers to student-faculty partnerships Suggests a range of possible levels of partnership that might be appropriate in different circumstances Includes helpful responses to a range of questions as well as advice from faculty, students, and administrators who have hands-on experience with partnership programs Balancing theory, step-by-step guidelines, expert advice, and practitioner experience, this book is a comprehensive why- and how-to handbook for developing a successful student-faculty partnership program.
Download or read book The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies written by Dominic DelliCarpini and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies combines scholarly research with practical advice for practitioners of undergraduate research in writing studies, including student researchers, mentors, and program administrators. Building upon the 1998 Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education, this book provides insight into the growth of undergraduate research over the last twenty years. Contributors demonstrate how undergraduate research serves students and their mentors as well as sponsoring programs, departments, and institutions. The Naylor Report also illustrates how making research central to undergraduate education helps advance the discipline. Organized in two parts, Part I focuses on defining characteristics of undergraduate research in writing studies: mentoring, research methods, contribution to knowledge, and circulation. Part II focuses on critical issues to consider, such as access, curriculum, and institutional support.
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology Centered Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations written by Doherty, Brian and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to meet the needs of a changing and demanding society, many academic institutions face great competition for highly coveted, yet dwindling, resources. Traditionally, libraries were a centralized focus on any campus; however, these facilities are now facing budget cuts and decreased resources, forcing them to seek out the necessary partnerships to obtain the support needed to continue to provide services to students and staff. Technology-Centered Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations examines cooperation efforts employed by librarians, allowing them to provide more services and resources to their patrons with an emphasis on the digital tools and resources being used in such collaborations. Featuring research on various types of partnerships and institutional relationships, as well as the overall benefits of these collaborations, this publication is an essential reference source for librarians, researchers, academic administrators, advanced-level students, and information technology professionals.
Download or read book An Understanding of Community Engagement written by Autumn Joy Adkins Graves Graves and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 20 years, many liberal arts colleges have responded to the call from the U.S. government and scholars to become civically engaged with their proximate communities in order to rid these neighborhoods of societal ills. While preparing graduates to be civically minded professionals falls within the missions of these colleges, the experiential educational activities designed to teach these lessons can take many shapes. Through the lens of Jane Addams, John Dewey and Paulo Freire, I come to understand the history of Ernest Boyer's call for higher education to address societal injustice. Scholars from the 20th and 21st centuries, including John Saltmarsh, Matthew Hartley, Thomas Ehrlich, and Barbara Holland, shape a contemporary understanding of engagement that informs the method, findings and analysis of the three colleges that are the subject of the present study. From 2006 to 2007, Haverford College, Trinity College, and Wagner College either opened or dramatically increased the scope and staffing to be academic centers aimed at supporting institutional, student, and faculty efforts to create or enhance relationships with community partners. These relationships bore transactional and transformative community engagement activities that fall along an engagement continuum that includes volunteerism, civic and democratic engagement, and solidarity. Cases that describe the engagement programs existing at Haverford, Trinity, and Wagner in fall 2013 are presented using a qualitative case study method. The communities in which they chose to engage have populations that racially and economically differ from the general student body. Administrators, faculty, students, and community partners were interviewed individually and in small focus groups using an open-ended protocol in an effort to better understand the reciprocal nature of the partnerships and expose why each constituency chose to engage. In addition to the colleges' mission being a driving reason for supporting these programs, enlightened self-interest became an evident factor in their decisions. Furthermore, understanding how the privilege of choice and traditional identity privilege exercised in these relationships gives readers ideas about shaping engagement programs that can be charitable, civic or democratic in both design and execution.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Book of Colleges 2021 written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mega-guide to 1,349 colleges and universities by the staff of the Princeton Review ... [including] detailed information on admissions, financial aid, cost, and more"--Cover.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Colleges 2020 Edition written by Princeton Review (COR) and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knows colleges better than The Princeton Review! Inside The Complete Book of Colleges, 2020 Edition, students will find meticulously researched information that will help them narrow their college search.
Download or read book Relationships Between First Generation College Students and Faculty written by Ricardo Valdez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University of Washington Abstract Relationships between first-generation college students and faculty: A case study of a small rural liberal arts university Ricardo Valdez Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Joe Lott College of Education The purpose of this qualitative case study is to describe the relationships between first-generation college students and faculty through their own experiences at this rural private four-year institution. It is well documented that positive outcomes are linked with faculty-student interaction which include grade point average (Anaya and Cole 2001), persistence (Pascarella and Terenzini, 1977), self-reports of learning (Lundberg and Schreiner 2004), plans for graduate study (Hathaway et al. 2002), social integration/adjustment (Schwitzer et al. 1999) and many other valuable outcomes as cited in Cox, McIntosh, Terenzini and Reason (2010). The research questions focused on the development and reciprocal outcomes of faculty-student relationships specific to first-generation students. Ten first –generation college students and six faculty were interviewed along with informal observations and document analysis. Data from the participants were gathered through semi-structured interviews, field notes, documents and informal observations. This triangulation of data was used to find themes and findings for this study. The results of this study found that initiation by faculty was a crucial tone-setter in the beginning phases of the developed relationship between faculty and students. Furthermore, shared lived experiences by both parties coupled with validation and increasing student self-efficacy by faculty contributed to minimizing the cultural capital deficit and the college intimidation factor. These findings could be used to improve institutional programs that focus on retention rates of first-generation college students, and contribute to the literature of relationships and interactions between faculty and first-generation college students.
Download or read book Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations written by Doherty, Brian and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital component of any academic institution, libraries are held to and expected to maintain certain standards. In order to meet these standards and better accommodate the student and faculty body they serve, many libraries are recognizing the benefit of forging relationships with other professional and academic entities. Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on and methods for utilizing existing spaces within libraries to facilitate collection development in addition to discussions on how on-campus and off-campus partnerships can assist in this endeavor. Focusing on issues related to faculty and researcher collaborations, collection management, and professional development, this book is ideally designed for administrators, librarians, academicians, MLIS students, and information professionals.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Colleges 2012 Edition written by Princeton Review (Firm) and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to 1,571 colleges and universities, and includes information on academic programs, admissions requirements, tuition costs, housing, financial aid, campus life, organizations, athletic programs, and student services.
Download or read book Disability and Equity in Higher Education Accessibility written by Alphin, Jr., Henry C. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is the foundation to almost all successful lives. It is vital that learning opportunities are available on a global scale, regardless of individual disabilities or differences, and to create more inclusive educational practices. Disability and Equity in Higher Education Accessibility is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on emerging methods and trends in disseminating knowledge in higher education, despite traditional hindrances. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant topics such as higher education policies, electronic resources, and inclusion barriers, this publication is ideally designed for educators, academics, students, and researchers interested in expanding their knowledge of disability-inclusive global education.
