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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"University leadership."”.
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College graduates’ perceptions of their use of teamwork skills: soft skill development in Fort Hays State University Leadership Education
… hires. Skills such as communication, teamwork, leadership and adaptability are commonly ranked as deficient. Academic leadership education strongly emphasizes this valuable skill set often referred to as soft skills. This study examined the relationship of the soft skills gained to the amount of …
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Means and Ends of the Andrews University Leadership Program: a Study of its Critical Components and Outcomes as They Relate to the Mission Statement
… Christian educational institutions. The Leadership Program (LP) of Andrews University was developed as an alternative and innovative means of delivering graduate education with a defined mission. It is job-embedded-theory and practice are united in the participants' workplaces, where they …
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Crisis leadership at South African universities: An exploration of the effectiveness of the strategies and responses of university leadership teams to the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests at South African universities in 2015 and 2016
… and destruction of property. This required university leaders to step into roles for which they were largely untrained and inexperienced –– even for those who were once among the ranks of the protesting students. Neither the operational systems nor the personnel had ever conceived of or …
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Developing global perspectives: global citizenship and sustainable development within higher education.
… model and the concept of the ‘Global University’ and then extending to address university leadership, to examine how this might secure a ‘Sustainable University’. The contribution to knowledge lies in: the examination of the relevance of the concepts to higher education; the …
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Juntos Luchamos: A Postcritical Ethnographic and Photovoice Study on Latinx Student Civic Engagement Practices at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… practice, and policy recommendations to university leadership and administrators on how institutions, specifically HSIs, can better support the civic engagement efforts of their Latinx students that move an institution from Hispanic enrolling to Hispanic-serving.</p>
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The race to the top: the experiences and strategies of women of colour in UK academia
… understandings of academic career success and university leadership based on meritocratic and neoliberal underpinnings are questioned. I argue that current knowledge fails to recognise inherent inequalities within the university system that make it problematic for women academics of colour to …
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Exploring the Potential for an East Carolina University Centralized Leadership Center
East Carolina University is a large national research university located in Greenville, North Carolina. The University’s Strategic Plan calls for establishing leadership education as a central tenet of the university. Following approval of the strategic plan, a number of leadership programs were …
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Peer Mentoring Program Survivability: How Programs React When Bad Things Happen
… or stakeholders—including students, funders, university leadership, and the public—that is crucial for program survival. Program administrators must carefully balance institutional requirements, legal considerations, and their core values while operating with limited resources. I find that …
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Fair or Unfair? Chinese Undergraduates’ Perceptions of College Classroom Assessments
… beliefs and fairness dimensions at a private university in China. Organizational justice theory offered the theoretical framework for identifying major factors influencing students’ general fairness perceptions and their emotional and behavioral consequences for learning. The research employed …
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An Empirical look at Recipient Benefits Associated with a University-Issued Student Leadership Award
… of student-based awards are for outstanding leadership and related accomplishments, there has been virtually no research on the impact of receiving such a leadership award (Frey, 2006). Due to the conspicuous absence of empirical studies in this area, a significant knowledge gap exists …
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An Examination of the Factors that Contribute to Undergraduate Persistence and Graduate Degree Aspirations for First-Generation College Students Attending Elite Universities
… for how practitioners, faculty, administrators, university leadership, and policymakers conceptualize and action interventions that serve to support and bolster first&ndasgeneration college students and shepherd them toward college completion and beyond.
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Academics’ Organisational Identification and Commitment: Influences of Perceptions of Organisational Support and Reputation
… of permanent academics at one South African university generated 215 responses. This was followed by a qualitative phase, conducted with a subset of the survey respondents, comprising 15 semi-structured face-to-face interviews. Supporting the relevant hypotheses, perceived organisational …
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Lokal forskningspolitik : Institutionell dynamik och organisatorisk omvandling vid Lunds universitet 1980-2005
… research dynamics. This study examines how Lund University in Sweden manages these institutional pressures. The study explores how the university leadership ? rector and the governing board ? have (1) articulated the normative foundations of the university, (2) experimented with and structured …
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Aeroacoustics Applications to Jets and Rotors
… This research, conducted as part of a NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI), combines computational and experimental efforts to validate numerical approaches for rotor noise prediction. High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and aeroacoustic solvers are employed to analyze a …
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THE POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN UNIVERSITIES IN PAKISTAN: AN AGENCY THEORY FRAMEWORK APPROACH
… exercise of influence through the appointment of university leadership and the composition of university governing boards. Furthermore, this research explores the effectiveness of the governments’ communication with universities pertaining to government decisions or legislation that the provincial …
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Understanding the Role of Non-federal Funding Match on the Effectiveness of a U.S. Strategy to Strengthen Academic Research Competitiveness Nationwide
… states. Other paths included having university leadership that is supportive of the non-federal match. In fact, most of the causal pathways to success involved some measures of financial resource capacity and or supportive leadership – crucial drivers of success in most states. More …
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Paternalistic Leadership and Job Performance: A Chinese Perspective Using Conservation of Resources Theory Approach
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: In the practice of university leadership, whether the current paternalistic leadership is suitable for the management of universities in the new era is the concern of the researcher. The purpose of this dissertation is to inquire the impact of paternalistic leadership on job …
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Late Completers : How and Why Non-Traditional Graduate Students Who Exceed Program Timelines of 10 Years Ultimately Complete the Doctoral Process
… students within a non-traditional leadership program who completed their PhDs after the 10-years. The sample was comprised of 12 graduates interviewed about their journeys and perceptions throughout their years of doctoral study. These interviews focused on progressions, reasons for …
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Negotiations and Curriculum-Instruction Components
… concerns are as perceived by the educational leadership. The sources of data were the statements or points of view expressed by persons in positions of leadership and an analysis of actual practice. Procedures. The study population was composed of the public school districts (K-12) in the …
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A Case Study of the Leadership Program at Andrews University: its Origins and Early Development as Reflected in Documents and Relics, Participant and Faculty Interviews, and Participant-Observation, 1994-2003
<p><em>Purpose</em>. The Leadership Program was established at Andrews University in 1994 as a non-traditional, competency-based, adult-oriented doctoral program. The purpose of this case study was to relate the story of the creation and development of the Leadership Program from 1994 through 2002 …
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