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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"University Culture"”.
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Exploration of university culture: a Papua New Guinea case study
… purpose of this case study on Divine Word University (DWU) is to explore the drivers that influence the organization to assume a particular model of organizing work and managing people in the pursuit of its goals. The key research questions therefore, focus on DWU culture, that is, the …
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Appraisal in the Gendered Organisation: The Experience of Women Academics
… women academics' experiences of the gendered university culture, during a period of rapid change in the management of higher education and the academic profession. The research draws on a Foucauldian feminist methodology to understand how, and in what ways, the dominant discourses of the …
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Stopping Out and Persisting: Experiences of Latino Undergraduate Students
… include the differences between the home and university cultures of students, a lack of feeling integrated into the university culture, and students' feelings of academic underpreparedness to academically compete at the university. Differences include academic difficulty to the point of …
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“One, two, three, four, we don’t want your fucking war”: The student protest movements at Columbia University and Kent State University during the war in Vietnam
… era was a pivotal turning point in American university life, during which students across the country pushed for changes not only to the institutions of higher learning but also to the country as a whole. This historical comparative analysis utilizes significant primary source documentation …
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Si' come dice lo Filosofo: Translating Philosophy in the Early Italian Lyric
… to distill the highest levels of intellectual culture into the vernacular love lyric was present from the very inception of the poetic vernacular. I aim to nuance our understanding of the divide between the early schools of poetry as determined by Dante in his role as a literary historian by …
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University Faculty Members’ Understanding of Their Role: Identity, Power, and Silence
… (shaped by such factors as career stage, university culture, and faculty affiliation), professorial power (powers that participants experienced as well as the ways in which they exercised power), and professorial silencing (as a response to fiscal realities coupled with numerous governance …
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A Game That Cannot Be Won: Media Framing of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal
… implications of race, class, gender, and the university culture became prevalent and important topics for the media to cover. They covered the scandal extensively and made it a prevalent subject story matter from April 2006 to April 2007. Utilizing a content analysis, this study coded for …
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International Male Students’ First-Year Experience
… first-year, international students attending a university in southern Ontario and living in university residence. Through four one-on-one interviews, my qualitative study sought to uncover the challenges, needs, and opportunities of these students. In addition to cultural and academic …
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From surviving to thriving: strategies to navigate postgraduate education for academic womxn of colour in the design field in South Africa
… factors such as the persistent colonial university culture and systemic forms of violence that strategically hinder the progress of previously disadvantaged individuals. Furthermore, it explores how South African universities profoundly undermine the spiritual and emotional well-being of …
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But you’ve done well, haven’t you? : an exploration of the educational and social experiences of lone parent students in higher education
… of subject disciplines in a post-1992 inner-city university. The study was conducted in 2010 using qualitative, semi-structured, one-to-one interviews. At the time, the number of lone parent households was increasing and the political agenda aimed to reduce welfare dependency and increase lone …
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AVID Program Graduates: Negotiating the First Year of College
… years, had successfully transitioned to the university. The study was framed by two research questions: (1) How did AVID program graduates adapt academically and culturally to a four-year public university during their first year? (2) In what ways did they attribute their persistence in …
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Feeling Our Way: An ethnographic exploration of university staff experiences of ‘soft skills’ learning and development programmes
… remain a largely uncharted dimension of global university culture. Few studies have explored their meaning for participants or the relationship between LDPs, self-care and managerial practices. This study used autoethnography to explore staff experiences of learning and development programmes …
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Lost in Translation? Non-STEM Academics in the 'Entrepreneurial' University
… concepts of the entrepreneurial academic and university. The entrepreneurial university concept has become a ubiquitous theme in higher education and policy literatures in recent decades, having been described variously as an ‘idea for its time’ (Shattock, 2010) and the ‘end-point of the …
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Decoupling, Tight Coupling and Barriers to Sustained Culture Change for Environmental Sustainability in North-East Scottish Universities
… on institutional theory, transformational culture change, and the Normalisation Process Theory (NPT), this study employs a critical lens to capture explicit and implicit factors contributing to the disconnect between policy and practice regarding ES. This disconnect often leads to a …
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Reconfiguring racial uplift: church-sponsored African American rhetorical work in the early twentieth century
… Champaign, IL, and in close proximity to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specifically, I claim that members’ uptake of racial uplift entailed a middle-class project—not an economic project, not one stemming from their finances, but a cultural one. Their fraught program of …
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A qualitative exploration examining the enhancement of students? personal and professional development through an employability focused curriculum
… 1 involved interviewing 17 Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) School of Sport & Exercise Sciences (SSES) alumni about their attitudes regarding the purpose of HE, the impact their HE experience had in preparing them for the requirements of the world of work, and what more can be done to, …