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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"change in higher education"”.
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Curriculum R & D: Incubating change in higher education
This mixed methods study examined incubation as a strategy for curricular change. The purpose was to examine the characteristics and effectiveness of curriculum incubation from a faculty perspective. The conceptual frame for this study proposed combining a grounded theory of incubation with …
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Institutional change in higher education: a case study
The dissertation, "Institutional Change in Higher Education: A Case Study" examines efforts to bring about fundamental institutional change at the University of Natal over a period of some 1 0 years, 1988 to 1997. The case study is characterised as being of an embedded single case design. It is an …
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Institutional change in higher education: a case study
The dissertation, "Institutional Change in Higher Education: A Case Study" examines efforts to bring about fundamental institutional change at the University of Natal over a period of some 1 0 years, 1988 to 1997. The case study is characterised as being of an embedded single case design. It is an …
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Anchoring Change in Higher Education : Narratives from Senior Executives at Malcolm Baldrige Award-Winning Institutions
… to explore Kotter’s (1996) eighth stage for leading change. Specifically, it is to identify strategies for anchoring planned change in institutions of higher education.</p> <p><em>Design. </em> This is a qualitative multiple case study. Each of the participating organizations is an institution of …
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The Forms of Capital and Intergenerational Change in Higher Education Access: A Case Study of Aranguez
The study explores higher education access in a marginalised community within a post-colonial context, specifically, why access was low given supportive government policies. The case study of Aranguez, a former sugar-cane plantation in Trinidad, involved interviews with descendants of East Indian …
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Implementing change in higher education : resolving change management deficiencies and its effects on process and employee efficiency.
… as they grappled with the challenges of aligning technical and people-centric change. For these individuals within a fast-growing organization in a complex and rapidly evolving higher-education marketplace change is mandatory and relentless. With constant change and the resulting challenges, …
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Twenty-five years of Scholarship: A Sociology of The Review of Higher Education Contributors, 1977-2002
Given today's hurried pace of change in higher education and its institutions, it is imperative for the higher education research community to reflect on its current composition and resulting ability to understand and respond to the breadth and rapidity of that change. Accordingly, the purpose of …
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Cultural implications of organizational change in dining services
The purpose of this study is to examine organizational change related to the structure and delivery of dining services at a public research flagship higher education institution. Dining services provide vital facilities that play an important role in meeting higher education institutional goals. …
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The Zook Commission:Reassessing World War II Veterans' Influence on Higher Education
<p>The Zook Commission: Reassessing World War II</p> <p>Veterans Influence on Higher Education</p> <p>Jeffrey Scott Aranguena</p> <p> This thesis is an analysis of The Presidential Commission on Higher Education of 1947 and the influence World War II veterans held on the role of the Commission’s …
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Campus battlegrounds: Puerto Rican student activism in higher education and community leadership in Chicago, 1970-1985
… analyzes the Puerto Rican student struggle in Chicago’s higher education from 1970 to 1985. Throughout this period, Puerto Rican student activists fought to transform a racist higher education system. I argue that higher education served as a training battleground where Puerto Rican student …
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Tacit Culture and Change: A Model of Change Constructed From Institutional Assumptions and Beliefs
Higher education today faces a conflict between increasing societal demands and decreasing budgets. Innovation and change in higher education occur in the face of limited institutional resources. Meeting the challenges confronting colleges and universities is best accomplished by applying planned …
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The survival of the mandarin tradition in German universities
… academic tradition at German universities in context of successive phases of change since 1933. It extends the analysis of the mandarin tradition developed by Fritz K. Ringer in his seminal work entitled The Decline of the German Mandarins. In this book Ringer argued that the German …
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Change in a university department through the practice lens : an ethnographic study of factors inhibiting and scaffolding success
Change in higher education has been researched at a variety of levels, from international policy to the response of the individual, but the academic department has received little attention as the focus. Deploying social practice theory underpinned by a critical realist ontology, this thesis …
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Governmentality: Welfare, Health and Higher Education as Sites of Agency, Resistance and Identity
… one book chapter, and fourteen papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Many arise from qualitative research projects on which I was the appointed researcher. I am sole author on five of the publications, lead author on seven, and joint author on four. The publications span the years …
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Help wanted: The call for transformative women leaders in higher education
… research considers the need for transformative change in higher education admissions policies and student success initiatives in the wake of significant impending changes in the demographics of the college-going population. The role of the chief enrollment management officer (CEMO) was examined …
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Institutional Transformation: A Case Study of an Urban Midwestern University
This study is a case study of an institutional transformational change effort in an urban research university. The study's focus is on the impact of The Milwaukee Idea on faculty and students as the soul of the university. Literature on transformational change in higher education focuses on the …
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Academic perceptions of educational technology: towards communicative rationality in the higher education institution
This thesis explores the management of change in higher education by applying a Habermasian conceptual framework to understand, explore and operationalise academic perceptions of Educational Technology. It questions the uncritical acceptance of techgerialism (i.e. managerialism through technology) …
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Getting there: aspects of the experiences of students prior to entry into higher education
This study set out to explore issues surrounding the extent to which growth and change in higher education has been accompanied by diversification of student characteristics and experiences prior to entry to higher education. Exploration of these issues developed further into a consideration of …
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Facing the Monster: Responses of North Dakota Higher Education Leaders to the Potential Impact of Declining Public School Enrollment on the State's University System
<p>This study was designed to examine the perceptions of leaders of higher education in North Dakota regarding declining public school enrollment and its potential impact on higher education in the state. Educational leaders from three higher education institutions of differing types and other …
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Defining a Global Learning Environment in Higher Education: A Case for the Global Seminar Project
In this study I defined the global learning environment (GLE) as it appeared in the Global Seminar Project (GSP) to address the issues of change in higher education under the pressure of globalization. The combination of constructivist theory and a Biggs' (2003) deep learning concept provided a …
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