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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Institutional Culture"”.
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Forced options : faculty identity development and institutional culture
<p>Many faculty enter the professoriate with high ideals. They have identity conceptions of themselves as potential change-agents, expanding human knowledge and contributing to the greater good. Over time, for many, this idealism fades and is replaced with job dissatisfaction and bitterness. This …
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Becoming a Recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI): Institutional Culture & Title V
… of this study was to understand the influence of institutional culture at an HSI on the Title V program. The findings highlight the forces that influence the process of securing, evaluating, and sustaining Title V grants. Drawing upon Kuh and Whitt (1988) and Tierney (1988; 2008), a single-site …
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Perceived Impact of Institutional Culture on Advanced Degree Aspirations of Students Attending Two Southern Women's Colleges
Women's college culture has been found to have qualities that promote the success of the women who graduate from these institutions. This research sought to identify aspects of women's college culture that students perceive as having impacted their aspirations for an advanced degree. Fifty-eight …
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Managing Dissent: Institutional Culture and Political Independence in the South African Broadcasting Corporation's News and Current Affairs Division
Despite a fairly successful institutional transformation in the early 1990s, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), in particular its News and Current Affairs division, is widely perceived to lack political independence from the African National Congress-led government and to have …
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Managing dissent : institutional culture and political independence in the South African Broadcasting Corporation's News and Current Affairs Division
Despite a fairly successful institutional transformation in the early 1990s, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), in particular its News and Current Affairs division, is widely perceived to lack political independence from the African National Congress-led government and to have …
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Reality check on "Health for All": decision-makers, democratization and ethnic conflict in Burundi's primary care institutional culture
… care in the Ministry of Health’s organizational culture. Collectively, these beliefs changed the top-down institutional approach to decision-making, moving the MOH to a consensus building model in its approach to PHC issues. Despite these changes, authoritarian organizational culture and ethnic …
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Exploring discourses of access and sexual harassment in higher education A study of students' perceptions of University of Nairobi's Institutional Culture, Kenya
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Negotiating institutional transformation : a case study of gender-based change in a South African university
… that are inherent in the transformation of institutional culture in the higher education environment in South Africa. Innovative use was made of gender-based change as a case study of social transformation in a case institution, the University of Cape Town. A feminist, qualitative approach …
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The Financial Action Task Force recommendations on anti-money laundering: a case study of East African banks
… how dimensions of money laundering, national and institutional culture, and financial infrastructure have caused a major setback in compliance with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) anti-money laundering recommendations in East Africa, (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda). This research project explores …
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Structured Faculty Mentoring in Higher Education: A Descriptive Analysis of the Perceptions of Junior and Senior Faculty
… around the significance of sharing aspects of institutional culture by older, more experienced faculty members. Independent samples t-tests performed on ten subscales by participant type were significant at the p≤0.05 level. Specifically, mentors gave higher ratings for Scale 3, Institutional …
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Institutional Transformation: An Analysis of Change Initiatives at NSF ADVANCE Institutions
The purpose of this study was to examine how institutional culture promoted or impeded the implementation of round one and two NSF ADVANCE initiatives designed to improve academic climates for women in science and engineering. This study was conducted in two phases. In phase one, 35 participants …
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Modern American Propaganda: An Institutional History
… propaganda. This paper argues that the institutional culture of this institution was born and came to fruition in the period 1941-1953, and has not significantly changed since. That institutional culture includes a fierce adherence to a “strategy of truth,” with aesthetic norms being …
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Mental Health and Ideals of Citizenship: Patient Care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903--1962
… vision of U.S. citizenship and the institutional culture at St. Elizabeths. Physicians took an increasingly liberal view of race relations under Winfred Overholser, who succeeded White as superintendent in 1937 and was prompted by national developments to integrate the hospital in …
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Tacit Culture and Change: A Model of Change Constructed From Institutional Assumptions and Beliefs
… in higher education occur in the face of limited institutional resources. Meeting the challenges confronting colleges and universities is best accomplished by applying planned change efforts that recognize tacit culture (underlying assumptions and beliefs) and incorporate these cultural components …
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Community Colleges and the Internet: Uses and Impacts
… colleges in the areas of student outcomes, institutional productivity, institutional effectiveness, and institutional culture and climate. All four areas had ratings between moderate and strong in the direction of positive impacts, and potential negative impact was rated between weak and …
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Invisible Students: An Exploration of Refugee Students' Experiences at a Higher Education Institution
… on their experiences of refugee identity and institutional culture, in order to explore ways of adequately supporting refugee students within higher education institutions. The study utilises an exploratory single case study and a qualitative research design based on in-depth interviews with …
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An historical case study of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in loco parentis
… (c) the definition of in loco parentis, and (d) institutional culture? Has in loco parentis found its sustenance at this institution through legal or cultural justification, or both? Qualitative case study methodology was utilized to examine in loco parentis within four time periods: (a) Shaping …
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Decoupling, Tight Coupling and Barriers to Sustained Culture Change for Environmental Sustainability in North-East Scottish Universities
… where ES becomes embedded and sustained in institutional members' daily routines and activities. Additionally, the research identifies context-specific barriers that hinder tight coupling efforts in NESU, providing valuable insights for policymakers and change agents. These insights can …
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An Exploratory Study on the Experiences of Emerging Academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
The quest for institutional transformation has created a need to continually challenge traditional notions of what an academic is and should be. While several studies have explored academics' experiences to engender transformation systems, few studies have focused strictly on emerging academics …
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