... the access and progression of students from different cultural backgrounds) and in their interaction with the surrounding community (e.g. through the establishment of stronger partnerships). The USR activities and projects are considered driving forces of change for universities, but the potential...

...Tae‐Hee Jo; Lynne Chester; Mary C. King; Rene P. Rosenbaum Purpose The article seeks to identify and examine HPE concepts and ideas that help teach community economic development to college students. Design/methodology/approach The paper's discussion is situated within...

...Tae‐Hee Jo; Lynne Chester; Mary C. King; Ingrid Schraner; Edward Mariyani‐Squire Purpose This paper aims to present the implications of discussing the economic concepts relevant to student projects within the international program Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and to discuss them...

... 2011, 511 pp.). Design/methodology/approach Books are grouped in nine categories: Global trends, Losing autonomy, Faculty, Students, Finance, Digitization, Curriculum, Diversity, and Moving forward. A concluding Coda discusses an important new paradigm of four types of scholarship...

...Robert A. Scott; Yiting Chang; Nava Lerer; Kathryn Talley Purpose Most retention literature compares students who remain at an institution with those who leave. This paper seeks to extend the analysis by focusing on freshmen who leave in order to transfer to another institution. Using person...

...Robert A. Scott; Nava Lerer; Kathryn Talley Purpose Administrators of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) argue that the results from the five benchmarks, constructed from the survey's items, “produce a set of national benchmarks of good educational practice that participating...

...Michael Feldstein; Nathan Garrett; Brian Thoms; Nimer Alrushiedat; Terry Ryan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show the practicality of a new portfolio design that incorporates distributed content, emphasizes student ownership, encourages social learning, and acknowledges the central...

...Jonathon Richter; Lynne Anderson‐Inman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight trends affecting student writing and studying in the twenty‐first century and, as a consequence, the changing nature of literacy in this digital era. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses...

... and an undergraduate educational psychology course, the paper attends to the potential of narratively‐rich, multi‐user virtual environments for positioning students to critically engage academic content. In particular, it discusses the importance of designing spaces that afford opportunities to understand and apply...

...David Shupe; John Tagg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the visibility of learning outcomes within an academic institution permits the re‐imagining of general education as the conscious development in students of expertise that is more general than and perhaps more...

...David Shupe; Carlos Guerrero Purpose The paper aims to make the case that attention to student learning outcomes provides a pedagogical bridge between the expectations of community college faculty and the performance of underprepared students. Design/methodology/approach Critical...

...David Shupe; David Shupe Purpose The aim of this paper is to describe how a college or university can develop the organizational capacity to focus on student learning outcomes. It seeks to show how the consistent application of this capacity would provide not only a response to external...

...David Shupe; Lynn Priddy Purpose The aim of this paper is to describe how academic institutions that focus improvement of student learning do much better than those that focus on compliance and assessment. Design/methodology/approach A reflective observation of institutional...

...David Shupe; Rich Edwards Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how Kirkwood Community College uses a learning outcomes information system (eLumen Achievement) in any wireless or even nonwireless setting to directly improve student learning by evaluating student performance...

... The college is incrementally introducing system‐supported evaluation of student work. It began with general education, working with interdisciplinary faculty committees to define common learning outcomes with shared rubrics, and using these in all courses designated as general education. The use...

... and for students. Originality/value Ten years of sustained endeavor at a liberal arts college provide numerous insights, especially on faculty acceptance, that are likely to be applicable in other academic institutions. In spite of these efforts, BVU is not yet fully invested in a learning...

... at: KWhite@Mercy.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 E‐learning Students When we were finally enjoying a certain success among adventurous faculty, we were suddenly barraged with demands and requests, form the military, from the penitentiary, from our own administration...

...David Pearce Snyder; John B. Lee; Amelia M. Topper Purpose To describe the future of proprietary higher education in the USA based on current industry and student trends. Design/methodology/approach Provides a survey of recently published studies and articles on proprietary higher...

...Boria Sax The idea of students as “customers” at institutions of higher learning evokes intense controvery, but it is usually understood simplistically. The word “customer” is derived from the Latin “consuescere” meaning “to become acquainted with”. In marketplaces of the Renaissance...

...Deborah M. Hill; Geoff Irvine Accreditation encourages the examination of programs as to whether they make sense as a whole and if students are well prepared for the world of work. Current accreditation is directed toward the assessment of learning and the assessment for learning. What...