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Journal articles on the topic "Universities and colleges Graduate work Zambia"
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Fatima, Jabeen, and Muhammad Naseer Ud Din. "Evaluative Study Of M.A. Education Programmes Of Teacher Education At Higher Education Level In Pakistan." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 3, no. 12 (January 6, 2011): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v3i12.921.
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The study was aimed at evaluating the MA Education Programme of teacher education in Pakistan. Post-graduate teacher’s training institutes in Pakistan grant the Master of Education (MA/M.Ed.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph D) post-graduate degrees in the field of education to enhance the careers and accelerate the professional development of educators. The population of the study was all heads and teachers of education departments of public sector universities and government colleges of education and prospective teachers enrolled in public sector universities and government colleges where the Master degree of Education (MA Education) programme was offered. The sample of 20 heads of public sector universities and government colleges of education, 56 teacher educators of 10 public sector universities and 10 government colleges of education, and 200 prospective teachers enrolled in public sector universities and government colleges of education departments, where the Master degree of Education (M.A./M.Ed.) was offered in Pakistan, was selected through cluster random sampling. For the collection of data, three questionnaires - one each for heads of institutions, teacher educators and prospective teachers - were developed. For analysis, chi-square as the contingency test, was applied for identifying the trends from the frequency of responses of each questionnaire item. It was concluded that the teaching faculty of the MA education programme was using a variety of teaching methods according to the nature of objectives, content and students. Evaluation systems for students of the MA education programme were found satisfactory. It is recommended that required changes be introduced in admission criteria, curriculum, duration of degree programme, teaching-practice, research work, rewards and incentives of existing MA Education Programme in Pakistan.
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Ecton, Walter G., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Celeste K. Carruthers. "Earning to Learn: Working While Enrolled in Tennessee Colleges and Universities." AERA Open 9 (January 2023): 233285842211404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23328584221140410.
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Although some students choose to work while enrolled in college, others may have no choice but to work, even if work may be detrimental to their chances of succeeding in college. Leveraging 17 years of statewide student-level records from Tennessee, the authors examine the relationship between working while enrolled and degree completion, time to degree, credit accumulation, and grade point average. The authors aim to increase understanding of how the timing and intensity of work relate to student outcomes and to explore how these relationships differ by college sector, industry of employment, and student characteristics. The authors find consistent negative associations between work and academic success, especially at higher levels of work intensity. Working students attempt and earn fewer credits and are 4 to 7 percentage points less likely to complete college. Among completers, working students take longer to graduate, even though they earn similar grade point averages and complete their attempted credits at similar rates to nonworking students.
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Means, Jennifer. "Academic Preparation for the School-Based SLP: A National Survey." Perspectives on School-Based Issues 10, no. 3 (October 2009): 96–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/sbi10.3.96.
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to ascertain the number of ASHA accredited graduate Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) programs offering specific course work addressing school-based issues for the speech-language pathologist. This research was conducted through e-mail survey distribution to 250 universities and colleges across the United States. The results are presented with pedagogy development and program planning suggestions.
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McCutcheon, Jessica M., and Melanie A. Morrison. "It’s “like walking on broken glass”: Pan-Canadian reflections on work–family conflict from psychology women faculty and graduate students." Feminism & Psychology 28, no. 2 (November 20, 2017): 231–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353517739641.
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Studies on work–family conflict amongst university faculty members indicate that women experience significantly more conflict in balancing their dual roles than their male counterparts. Research suggests that female faculty may be disadvantaged because of the norms structuring academic environments, which seemingly accommodate the life courses of men. Interestingly, the experience of work–family conflict for graduate students, who are besieged by many of the same environmental forces as female faculty, has been largely ignored within the scholarly literature. In the present study, qualitative responses regarding work–family conflict from 65 academic women (32 faculty; 33 graduate students) from universities and colleges across Canada were submitted to thematic analysis. Results revealed three interconnected themes: masculine workplace norms, the need to choose between work and family, and consequences of work–family conflict. The findings point to the need for academic institutions to critically examine their cultures surrounding motherhood in an effort to provide hospitable environments for faculty and graduate students who are, or who will become, parents.
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Yang, Fen. "Resource Collection Algorithm for Entrepreneurship and Employment Education in Universities Based on Data Mining." Mobile Information Systems 2022 (April 12, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6038255.
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Graduate unemployment is one of the serious challenges in China, including the graduates of a large number of public and private higher education institutions. The collection of entrepreneurial employment education resources in colleges and universities is a basic project and a key link to promote the rapid development of education informatization. Data mining has various applications in different fields such as health care, smart agriculture, smart cities, smart businesses, and education, but is playing a vital role in the field of education and businesses. The applications of data mining provide new technical tools and development directions to realize the common construction, sharing, and collection of entrepreneurial employment education resources in colleges and universities. The closed nature of teaching resources within colleges and universities leads to the inability of external search engines to search them, which hinders the search and access of teachers and students and seriously affects the smooth implementation of current innovation and entrepreneurship employment work. Aiming at the real demand of entrepreneurial employment education resource collection in colleges and universities and the characteristics of on-campus resources, this study proposes a data mining-based algorithm for entrepreneurial employment education resource collection in colleges and universities. The algorithm obtains entrepreneurial employment demands from the academic affairs system, collects on-campus online teaching resources through internal crawlers, and provides services for teachers, students, and employees through online teaching resource collection drive subalgorithm and quick recommendation subalgorithm. We also compared the proposed model with the CLR model. The case analysis and performance experiments show that the proposed algorithm has a good resource mining effect, high user satisfaction, and high recommendation efficiency, occupies fewer system resources, and shows high performance as compared to the CLR model.
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Sinuraya, Junus, and Friendly. "Classification of Graduate Profiles Based on Graduate Tracer Study Using Algorithm Naive Bayes Classifier." Jurnal Teknovasi 7, no. 02 (October 1, 2020): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.55445/jt.v7i02.17.
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The graduate profile is the role of the graduate of the study program or field of expertise / field of work planned after completing education from the study program. The determination of the profile of study program graduates is generally carried out based on the results of the assessment of stakeholder needs. Based on data from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, the IT study program is one of the most majors or study programs in Indonesian universities and the highest number of enthusiasts choose this study program each year. Each year, graduates of IT study programs have a large number of graduates, both vocational and non- vocational colleges. The number of IT graduates is large but they have low graduate competencies, even they do not have competencies in the IT field so that their work is not in accordance with the graduate profile that has been designed. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research to classify the profile of graduates who have worked based on tracer study data using the Naïve Bayes Classifier method. This study uses attributes, namely study program, value criteria, gender and field of work and the labels used are status (Linear and Non-Linear). The results of the study on the classification of the profile of graduates using the Naïve Bayes Classfier method show that alumni work not according to the profile of graduates by 73% and according to the profile of graduates by 23%, with a data accuracy rate of 87% and are included in the good classification category.
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Phillips, John R. "Of Promise and Peril: Doctoral Study in Public Administration in the 21st Century." Public Voices 12, no. 2 (November 23, 2016): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.87.
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The author, a recent graduate of the Doctor in Public Administration program, shares his thoughts about what it means to study public administration in the twenty-first century. He hopes his insights, born out of more than a forty year-long career in the field—decades of work in colleges and universities as a faculty member, dean, provost, vicepresident, and acting president, as well as his extensive experience in teaching public administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels—will help doctoral students in their academic pursuits. More specifically, he hopes that his remarks will make Ph.D. students think more deeply about the promise of their endeavors and, on the other hand, give them advance warning about perils of the process and ways to avoid them.
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Mwelwa, Kapambwe, and Ailwei S. "Effectiveness of Internships as Pedagogical Practices in Promoting Employability Skills Amongst Graduating Students in Selected Social Science Degree Programmes in Zambia." International Journal of Educational Methodology 7, no. 4 (November 15, 2021): 649–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.12973/ijem.7.4.649.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">To explore their role in enhancing graduate employability, the study investigated the effectiveness of student internships as pedagogical practices in promoting employability skills amongst graduating students in four Social Science Degree programmes of selected universities in Zambia. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from 162 participants through the questionnaires and interview guides using a mixed-methods approach. The participants included different actors in the labour industry as critical informants; graduating students taking Social Science Degree Programmes; Lecturers, and Employers. The quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using the SPSS version 24 and Atlas. Ti. Version 8, respectively. This study employed the Human Capability Approach and Human Capital theories. Findings indicated that although internship practices were considered an essential component in the social science degree programmes for skills development, their effectiveness in promoting employability skills amongst graduating students varied from one programme to the other. The findings have implications on how universities and the labour industry could work together to design and implement internship experiences for students in social science degree programmes that are more effective in promoting the acquisition of employability skills in Zambia.</p>
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Zhao, Hui Qin, and Hong Wang. "How to Do Well Graduate Employment of Colleges and Universities under the Low Carbon Economy Environment." Advanced Materials Research 573-574 (October 2012): 821–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.573-574.821.
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Low carbon economy makes effect on employment. It shows that low carbon is not only a kind of life philosophy. With the development of new energy technology, it has risen to national economic strategy, and may become a new economic growth point. At the same time, the adjustment of energy structure, not only benefits to the sustainable development road of economic development to" green" , and also brings in new hope for improving the current employment situation. The employment situation of college graduates is an important index of social inspection and evaluation of the quality of running a school; it is one of the core competitiveness of schools. Graduate employment status relates to the school reputation directly. This paper studies that how colleges and universities do the employment work of graduates.
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Lin, Feng. "Research on Employment Data Mining for Higher Vocational Graduates." Applied Mechanics and Materials 686 (October 2014): 290–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.686.290.
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In order to make effective use a large amount of graduate data in colleges and universities that accumulate by teaching management of work, the paper study the data mining for higher vocational graduates database using the data mining technology. Using a variety of data preprocessing methods for the original data, and the paper put forward to mining algorithm based on commonly association rule Apriori algorithm, then according to the actual needs of the design and implementation of association rule mining system, has been beneficial to the employment guidance of college teaching management decision and graduates of the mining results.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Universities and colleges Graduate work Zambia"
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Pallow, Richard Brian. "Graduate Advisor System." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2917.
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The purpose of this project is to update the architecture and design of the California State University San Bernardino Graduate Advisor System. This system allows potential students into the Master of Science degree program in Computer Science to complete their application online.
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Barnett, Nicole C. "Higher education as a field of study at historically black colleges and universities." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1378143.
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Higher education as a field of study has an extensive history in the United States of America. However, regrettably, this history has segments working in obscurity. One such segment was the work of graduate programs in the field of higher education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The purpose of this study was to trace the program development of graduate certificate, concentration, and degree programs in the field of higher education at HBCUs. This study was driven by one research question. What is the history of higher education as a field of study at Historically Black Colleges and Universities?This investigation unearthed eight universities confirmed to have held, or currently hold, the nine graduate programs in the field of higher education at HBCUs. The eight universities listed chronologically by inception of their graduate programs in the field of higher education were Tuskegee University (1965), Texas Southern University (1974), Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (1980), Hampton University (1980s), Grambling State University (1986), Tennessee State University (1998), Morgan State University (1998/1999 & 2001), and Jackson State University (2004).This study used a blended research design. A historical organizational case study (Bogdan & Biklen, 2003) and a multi-case study (Bogdan & Biklen, 2003) were blended into what proceeded as a historical organizational multi-case study. Additionally, grounded theory methodology was used to detail what drove the development of those graduate programs in the field of higher education at HBCUs.Findings of the study revealed that graduate program development in the field of higher education at HBCUs generally began with internal and/or external overtures with the purpose of developing a current body of practitioners with specialized knowledge in the areas of student personnel, as managers and higher education leaders. Key individuals were typically recruited to write or initiate the programs with the major market being the immediate geographic area; but as programs developed, their markets expanded. Some of the consequences of delivering these established programs were being both visible and vulnerable, although the programs had an opportunity to serve as resources to their institutions and other communities.Department of Educational Studies
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Dison, Arona. "Research capacity development of individuals at three South African university research centres." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7177_1253849279.
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In South Africa, there has been recognition of the need for increasing research capacity at South African universities and within the national science system. Furthermore there has been a need to address imbalances in the racial and gender profile of researchers. There has been a growth of application-oriented, multidisciplinary research centres at South African universities in response to changing national and international knowledge contexts. Many research centres have a research capacity development component and run postgraduate programmes in collaboration with academic departments. This it was relevant to investigate what types of contexts these centres provide for research capacity development and postgraduate education. In this study, individual research capacity development was examined as a process of identity formation and socialisation through social, organisational and epistemological lenses.
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Dale, Andrea. "Wrestling with a fine woman : the history of postgraduate education in Australia, 1851-1993." Title page, table of contents and summary only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd139.pdf.
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Errata pasted onto front fly leaf. Bibliography: leaves 329-355. Studies the expansion of postgraduate education in Australia, particularly the research degree. Analyses the credentialling role of the postgraduate degree and the influence of overseas models of postgraduate education. Argues that the changing relationship between the state, the universities and the research sector has had a strong impact on the postgraduate sector.
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Burdsall, Tina Dawn Lillian. "Do I Really Belong Here? : The Effects of Difference in Paths Through Higher Education on Graduate Student Perception on Legitimacy." PDXScholar, 2008. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2926.
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Why do some master's level students feel confident in completing their programs and some do not? Why do some feel connected to their department and some do not? Why do some feel legitimate as graduate students and some do not? This research proposes that there may be differences in how master's students understand the graduate student role based on whether they went directly from high-school through their bachelor's to their master's, or if they took time off between their bachelor's and master's program. This thesis used in-depth interviews with twelve second-year master's students at Portland State University to explore these questions: six with students who had a linear trajectory through higher education and six with students who had a break after completing their bachelor's and before returning for their master's (broken trajectory students).
Students from both groups began their programs with questions about their ability to perform at a master's level. Broken trajectory students were more likely to have thought through their chances of success and entered their programs 'knowing' that they would successfully co~plete the programs even when they questioned their academic abilities. Students from both groups overall felt a progressive increase in feelings of connection to their departments. The linear trajectory students entered their programs with some established feelings of connection with other graduate students. The broken trajectory students did not have these established connections, but desired connection with other serious students. Overall, students from both groups experienced increased feelings of legitimacy as graduate students, but the criteria by which they judged their legitimacy differed between groups. Linear trajectory students used academic ability as a primary measure of legitimacy, where broken trajectory students used having a clear understanding of why they were in graduate school as the standard to determine whether they "belonged in college." The two groups also differed in the source of their student role standard: broken trajectory students used professors as their role reference group, whereas the linear trajectory students used peers and undergraduate students. This thesis closes with a discussion of the implications of this research for theory, programs, and current models of persistence.
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Nag, Anindita. "Teachers as Learners: Impacts of Graduate Teachers Education Programs? Features on In-Service Teachers? Practices." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28544.
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Significant research efforts have addressed the need for pursuing graduate teacher education to improve in-service teachers? teaching practices. On contrary, empirical knowledge about the impacts of structural and process features of graduate teacher education on in-service teachers? teaching practices is underdeveloped. This proposed study was designed to contribute to an empirically driven knowledge about the degree to which graduate teacher education programs support in-service teachers? classroom needs and guide them diligently to deal with professional challenges. Mixed methodology approach including survey questionnaire (quantitative) and interview (qualitative) was used, and 34 in-service from 15 different teacher education programs of five different Upper Midwest states responded to the survey questionnaire. However, only two teachers participated in the interview process. Quantitative data from survey questionnaire revealed that most teacher participants perceived that graduate teacher education program had positive impact on their teaching practices.
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Wan, Chang Da. "An exploratory study of the educational processes of the PhD." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b630c066-ff2a-4c53-8ca6-1e9ebdf78856.
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There has been a significant increase in the numbers of students undertaking doctoral study over the last 20-30 years. This means that the PhD is no longer solely an elite degree designed to prepare graduates for an academic career. Instead, emphasis has increasingly been placed on the role of the PhD in producing 'advanced knowledge workers' who are expected to make a contribution to the production of knowledge in a knowledge-driven economy. This has led to an increased focus on the educational dimension of the PhD and the educational processes involved in developing students to become researchers in a range of contexts. However, the educational processes involved in the PhD are complex and differ across higher education systems, institutions and disciplines. They include formal and informal activities and involve a large number of actors with different expectations about the aims and outcomes. This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the educational processes of the PhD by exploring the complexity underlying these processes. The research was based on case studies in six departments. The case studies focused on the PhD processes of the six departments from three disciplines in four higher education institutions in England. Interviews with PhD Programme Directors, supervisors and students were complemented by analysis of institutional and departmental documents. The research was guided by a multi-level framework to examine the institutional, departmental, interpersonal and individual levels, and the inter-relatedness between levels. As such rich narratives provide insight into factors such as the PhD thesis and its influence on the supervisory relationship, formal initiatives such as assessment and coursework, and the Skills Training Programme and its underlying notion of employability. Three forms of complexity were identified. The first relates to the fact that the educational processes are individualistic in nature, and there is a need to understand the influences of the personal, social, educational and professional domains of the individual students and supervisors independently and collectively in shaping these complex processes. The second underlines the tensions and potential contradictions within and between actors as a result of the interpretation and implementation of these processes across the four levels. The third concerns a tension between the need for these processes to remain individualistic and the pressure for departments and institutions to provide standardised processes for all students. By identifying and gaining a greater understanding of these complexities, this research contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the educational processes of the PhD based on grounded empirical evidence. This understanding is important in developments for enhancing the quality of PhD education, and in developing programmes which support students to become researchers in a range of different employment contexts.
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Stephenson, Sandra Lisa. "Master's Degree studies at Rhodes University : access and postgraduate readiness." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011783.
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This mixed method, grounded theory study aimed to explore access to Master's level study at Rhodes University, a small, traditional South African university established in 1904, over the ten year period 1999-2008. It also sought to capture the essence of 'postgraduate readiness': the generic (non-certificated) attributes which academics expect graduates to possess in order to undertake Master's degree study. While the majority of students enter Master's level via the formal route (which at Rhodes is an Honours or 4-year bachelor's degree), a significant number are admitted based on the recognition of prior learning (RPL), a practice which is encouraged in South African higher education national policy as a means of widening access and also of acknowledging that learning can take place in ways other than 'formally'. The findings show that while RPL is well defined nationally at the undergraduate level, the concept of RPL at the postgraduate level is vague and largely left to institutional discretion. No national, and few institutional, guidelines are available on which to base the assessment of potential Master's degree students who do not have Honours degrees. Interviews with Deans, supervisors and policy makers at Rhodes indicated that while there is institutional support for admitting alternative access candidates, there is a general perception of deficit compared to those entering the Master's with formal qualifications. However, the statistical findings showed no significant difference in success rates or time taken to completion between students with and without Honours degrees. In addition, comments from supervisors with extensive experience of alternative access students praised the diversity and rich life experience which such students brought to their studies and their peers. The study concludes that an institutional culture characterized by resistance to change, risk and externally imposed regulations at Rhodes has resulted in weak implementation of the University's RPL policy, little marketing or publicizing of alternative access routes to postgraduate study, and low numbers of RPL enrolments at the Master's level. A framework for the assessment of potential Master's candidates - both RPL and formal admissions - for use at Rhodes University and potentially also at other higher education institutions, is proposed in conclusion.
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Smith, Sherwood E. "The experience of African-American faculty in adult education graduate programs." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1027091.
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The current data (Otuya, 1994) show that African-Americans represent less than two percent of the male full professors and less than seven percent of the female full professors. "Demographicchanges provide compelling reasons for increasing concern about the continuing under-representation of ethnic and racial minorities in adult and continuing education programs"(Ross-Gordon, 1990; p. 13).The purpose of my research was to investigate the frustrations and rewards of African-American faculty (AAF) in Adult Education programs of graduate study. Adult educators were defined as fulltime graduate faculty teaching in adult education programs. Individual semi-structured telephone interviews were used to gather the evidence from the total population of eight individuals. Resumes served as further sources of evidence. Domain analysis was used to organize the evidence. The information serves to aid in the retention and tenuring of more African-Americans and informing non-African-American faculty. The evidence collected showed the experience of AAF to have important themes on frustrations and rewards:1.Lack of senior faculty who share their research interests or as specific role models within the field and institution,2.Committee and student involvement expectations that were perceived as different for AAF then their White peers3.Daily challenges to their knowledge by students and peers were presented in the conversation as events during which "people tried to dismiss or diminish them." Success in meeting these challenges was often a validating experience for AAF4. The positive feelings of seeing their students succeed5. Being true to the African-American community, their family, their personal values and God was important to AAF.The research indicated that African-Americans as faculty experienced a wide range of frustrations and rewards. For these AAF the frustrations and rewards did not cause them to leave the profession. Many of the frustrations presented were items that could be address by the employing universities. Many of the rewards were perceived as not receiving sufficient recognition in the tenure or professional development processes and both internal and external frustrations and rewards were important to these AAF.Department of Educational Leadership
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Hunter, Maryke. "Postgraduate studies at the University of Stellenbosch : an exploration of students' perceptions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53007.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch,2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Changing circumstances and new initiatives have made it necessary for Higher Education institutions to reflect on all aspects of their teaching portfolios. Recent global and national trends have had numerous implications for different aspects of the university as an entity, which in turn have important implications for teaching, and particularly postgraduate teaching. The need for greater transparency and efficiency is forcing universities into discussions around facing these challenges. The overarching aims of this study were twofold: firstly, to identify historical and current tendencies and patterns in postgraduate studies at the University of Stellenbosch and secondly, to determine the enabling and constraining factors relating to postgraduate studies at the University of Stellenbosch. It was decided to focus on both completed postgraduate students (years 1991 - 1999) as well as current postgraduate students (year 2000). Furthermore, "postgraduate" was defined as relating to all Master's and Doctoral students at the University of Stellenbosch. The empirical research for this study included three components. Firstly, two postal surveys were carried out at the University of Stellenbosch in 2000 in order to explore a representative sample of postgraduate students' attitudes and perceptions. Secondly, a secondary data analysis of existing data on the University database for postgraduate students was carried out in order to do an estimate of success- and follow through rates. Finally, interviews were conducted with coordinators of four postgraduate programmes at different departments in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Stellenbosch. Results show that the nature of postgraduate studies at the University follows the same form of dynamics, diversity and complexity that characterizes postgraduate studies worldwide. Although there has been an exceptional increase in the number of postgraduate students over the past decade, completion rates have stayed the same. This increase in numbers places enormous additional administrative, academic and managerial demands on the University. Although postgraduate students (both completed and current students) seem to have a general positive perception of the University, its academic and administrative services as well as the quality of postgraduate supervision, there are certain aspects that can still be improved upon. For example: the University has to realize that although the completion rates of postgraduate students have reasonably stayed the same over the last decade, the number of students who did not complete increased with almost 50%. The University has to put structures in place in order to cope with the increasing demands these students are placing on administration, departments and supervisors. Also, although it seems as if the University are open to the trends in higher education, they are not totally geared for part-time and non-resldentlal students. All four programmes in the Arts Faculty were initiated by individual academics within the departments. In terms of managing postgraduate students within departments, it seems that greater standardization regarding aspects of admission, administrative support, requirements for research proposals, examination and guidelines for the research components are needed. Supervisors and students both need to know what is expected from them. In terms of the supervisory process, supervisors must have guidelines in terms of what their responsibilities are and they have to realize the importance of their task. Students need to be informed about their rights and the whole process of postgraduate studies. Overall, it is the responsibility of the University, together with its postgraduate students and supervisors to ensure that the process of postgraduate studies is characterized by success, effectiveness and efficiency.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Veranderende omstandighede en nuwe beleldsmaatreels maak dit noodsaaklik dat Hoer Onderwysinrigtings deurentyd besin oor aile aspekte van hul missies en funksies. Resente globale en nasionale tendense het verreikende implikasies vir verskeie aspekte van die universiteitswese, waarvan die gevolge vir die onderrigtaak, en in besonder nagraadse onderrig, van besondere belang is. Oproepe tot deursigtigheid, gekoppel aan die imperatief tot doeltreffendheid, is alles faktore wat universiteite tot besinning dwing. Die doel van hierdie studie was om die historiese en huidige tendense en patrone in nagraadse studie aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch te skets asook om vas te stel wat is die bemiddelende en belemmerende faktore wat nagraadse studie by die Universiteit kenmerk. Daar is besluit om te fokus op beide afgestudeerde studente (vanaf 1991 tot 1999) asook huidige studente (ingeskryf in die jaar 2000). Verder is "nagraads" gedefinieer as verwysende na aile meesters en doktorale studente by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch. Die empiriese navorsing vir hierdie studie bestaan uit drie komponente. Eerstens is twee posopnames in 2000 uitgevoer om "n verteenwoordigende steekproef van nagraadse studente aan die Universiteit se persepsies rakende hul nagraadse studie te toets. Verder is daar "n sekondere analise uitgevoer van bestaande data op die Universiteit se databasis vir nagraadse studente spesifiek met die doel om sukses- en deurvloeikoerse van nagraadse studente te bepaal. Laastens is onderhoude gevoer met koordineerders van vier nagraadse programme aan verskillende departemente binne die Fakulteit Lettere en Wysbegeerte. Die resultate toon dat die aard van nagraadse studie aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch dieselfde mate van dinamika, toenemende diversiteit en gepaardgaande kompleksiteit weerspleel as wat nagraadse studies wereldwyd kenmerk. Alhoewel daar "n buitengewone toename in nagraadse studentegetalle aan die Universiteit oor die afgelope dekade was, het die voltooiingskoerse van studente dieselfde gebly. Hierdie toename in getalle plaas geweldige ekstra administratiewe, akademiese en bedryfseise aan die Universiteit. Alhoewel nagraadse studente (beide afgestudeerd sowel as huidig) in die algemeen "n positiewe persepsie van die Universiteit, sy akadernlese en administratiewe dienste, sowel as die kwaliteit van nagraadse studieleiding blyk te he, is daar enkele sake waarop verbeter kan word. 50 byvoorbeeld moet die Universiteit besef dat alhoewel voltooiingskoerse konstant gebly het, het die getal van nagraadse studente wat nie voltooi nie, met ongeveer 50% gestyg. Die Universiteit moet strukture in plek stel om te kan voldoen aan die toenemende eise wat sy nagraadse studente aan administrasie, departemente en studieleiers stel. Alhoewel die Universiteit oop blyk te wees vir nuwe tendense in hoer onderwys, blyk dit dat hy nog nie heeltemal gerat is vir deeltydse studente en nle-resldenslele studente nie. AI vier die programme in die Fakulteit Lettere en Wysbegeerte het ontwikkel uit individuele akademici binne departemente. In terme van die bestuur van nagraadse studente binne departemente, is groter standardisasie van aspekte rakende toelating, administratiewe ondersteuning, vereistes rondom navorsingsvoorstelle, eksaminering en riglyne vir die navorsingskomponent van nagraadse studies nodig. Beide studieleiers en studente moet besef wat van hulle verwag word. In terme van die proses van studieleiding, moet studieleiers oor riglyne beskik van hulle verantwoordelikhede en verder moet die belangrikheid van die taak besef word. 5tudente moet ingelig word oor hulle regte en die proses van nagraadse studie. Die Universiteit, tesame met sy nagraadse studente en studieleiers, moet verseker dat die proses van nagraadse studies gekenmerk word deur sukses, effektiwiteit en doeltreffendheid.
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Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. Global perspectives on graduate education: Proceedings of the strategic leaders global summit on graduate education. Washington, D.C: Council of Graduate Schools, 2008.
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Global perspectives on graduate education: Proceedings of the strategic leaders global summit on graduate education. Washington, D.C: Council of Graduate Schools, 2008.
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Collaborative futures: Critical reflections on publicly active graduate education. Syracuse, New York: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University, 2012.
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Palfreyman, David, and Paul Temple. "5. Students: getting in, getting on, getting out." In Universities and Colleges: A Very Short Introduction, 78–96. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198766131.003.0005.
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Universities and colleges are, overwhelmingly, about students and in most countries, they are a pretty diverse group, with varying aspirations. ‘Students: getting in, getting on, getting out’ considers the student journey from the admissions process, through induction, to the main part of the student journey involving day-to-day work on the academic programme, assessment, and then moving on to further study or to a graduate job. It asks whether students are partners or customers in the university/college–student relationship and explains how the picture has changed in recent years with the expansion of higher education, moving from an elite system to a mass system, and the introduction of student tuition fees.
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Burrell, Darrell Norman, Calvin Nobles, Maurice Dawson, Eugene J. M. Lewis, S. Raschid Muller, Kevin Richardson, and Amalisha S. Aridi. "Innovative Legitimate Non-Traditional Doctorate Programs in Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Technology." In Applications of Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Privacy and Cybersecurity, 175–88. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9430-8.ch009.
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According to the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) the number of complaints about cyberattacks to their cyber division is up to as many as 4,000 a day. Every year in the U.S., 40,000 jobs for information security analysts go unfilled, and employers are struggling to fill 200,000 other cybersecurity-related roles. Colleges and universities have created certificate, undergraduate, and graduate programs to train professionals in these job roles. The challenge to meeting the cybersecurity workforce shortage through degree programs is intensified by the reality of the limited number of cybersecurity and engineering faculty at colleges and universities. This chapter explores the essential need to develop more doctorate faculty in technology-related areas and explains some unique and non-traditional paths to doctoral completion that allow professionals with significant real-world work experience to complete a doctorate without career interruption and relocation from highly respected and established universities in the US and the UK.
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Gillum, J. Barton, Nicole DeVaul, and Souheil Ghannouchi. "Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medicine Programs." In Advances in Medical Education, Research, and Ethics, 139–54. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9617-3.ch008.
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Medical school and other graduate medical programs are increasingly drawing non-traditional applicants, some of whom have already been out in the work force and some of whom decide later in their academic career to go into medicine. Additionally, some pre-health students underperform during their undergraduate courses and end up with a less competitive grade point average (GPA). Historically, these students have had to take science prerequisite courses as non-degree-seeking students at community colleges or universities. More and more students are choosing post-baccalaureate or graduate programs to take needed courses or enhance their GPA for their graduate medical program applications. Pre-health advisors should make every effort to stay up to date on post-baccalaureate programs and offer resources to these particular niche students.
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Scaff, Lawrence A. "The Discovery of the Author." In Max Weber in America. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691147796.003.0012.
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This chapter discusses the successful reception and dissemination of Max Weber's work beginning in the 1920s. It shows that interest in Weber's work led to the gradual translation and incorporation of his thought into the social science disciplines, college and university curricula, and even public discourse. The chapter examines the necessary conditions for the successful reception and propagation of Weber's writings, including the “institutionalization” of his thought, research problems, and conceptual language in curricula, undergraduate courses, and advanced graduate research seminars in American colleges and universities. It also considers the role played by the “clusters” of scholars in the diffusion of knowledge about Weber. Finally, it analyzes how the translation, publication, reading, and diffusion of Weber's work influenced the disciplines, scholarship, and intellectual life generally in the United States.
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Epler, Pam. "Dual Licensure Programs." In Collaborative Models and Frameworks for Inclusive Educator Preparation Programs, 150–64. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3443-7.ch009.
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This chapter introduces the reader to the undergraduate inclusive educator preparation programs, the dual licensure. Dual licensure requires that the teacher candidate is educated in both a content area and special education. It discusses the work currently conducted in this field as well as the advantages and disadvantages of having an undergraduate or graduate student earning two teaching licenses. The chapter includes colleges and universities who currently have a dual licensure program and ends with a case study of a university who recently devise a dual teaching license program for Grades 7 – 12 in Adolescent and Young Adults Integrated English Language Arts or Adolescent and Young Adults Integrated Social Studies and Special Education.
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Girardi, Tamara. "New Creative Writing “Classroom”." In Critical Examinations of Distance Education Transformation across Disciplines, 1–14. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6555-2.ch001.
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The field of creative writing studies includes commonly regarded forms of distance education such as online courses, but there is an impressive diversity regarding the opportunities available to creative writers. To illustrate this, the chapter discusses the two tracks available to writers. The first features the university environment, where students enroll in undergraduate and graduate creative writing degree programs. These programs could be full-residency, low-residency, or online. However, not all writers are able or willing to enroll in such programs. For these writers, there are non-academic options that are driven not by colleges and universities but by the publishing community. Non-degree writers might enroll in online workshops or communities. Finally, non-degree seeking writers might work independently through MOOCs, extension classes, iTunesU courses, and how-to texts. This chapter discusses the history of distance education as it is evolving and the potentially overwhelming number of options available to aspiring writers.
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Heft, James L. "Campus Ministry and Academics." In The Future of Catholic Higher Education, 203–16. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568880.003.0015.
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Until the mid-twentieth century, 90% of Catholic colleges and universities were run by religious orders that integrated the study of religion with the religious life of the students, the vast majority of them being Catholic. Now, the student bodies include many non-Catholics, are mostly a-intellectual when it comes to religion, and would likely not take theology classes unless they were required. Faculty think moral formation is the obligation of a separate division of the university: student development offices and campus ministers. Most faculty are concerned only with intellectual development. As a professionalized group (master’s degree in pastoral ministry), campus ministers are often uninterested in the intellectual formation of students in the Catholic tradition. While retaining their primary responsibilities, faculty and campus ministers need to learn how to work with each other. Working together is much more possible at campuses that have a high percentage of undergraduate students in residence. Working with graduate students is more difficult, even at residential campuses.
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Pierce, Susan Resneck. "The Importance of Mission." In Rethinking Liberal Education. Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195097726.003.0005.
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In fall 1993 the University of Puget Sound Board of Trustees accepted an offer from Seattle University to assume sponsorship of the Puget Sound School of Law. Although we had not been seeking an alternative home for the law school, we board members responded to Seattle University's initiative as we did because we believed that transferring the law school would clarify to all our constituents the University of Puget Sound's mission as a national liberal arts college. We were also convinced that the law school— which had been established in 1971 and was located in a renovated department store in downtown Tacoma, a ten-minute drive from Puget Sound's main campus—would be better served by becoming part of an institution firmly committed to professional and graduate education. The action illustrates how two very different universities can work together to ensure that each offers those programs that best fit its mission. For Puget Sound, the decision further exemplifies our determination to focus our resources, financial and human, on what we do best—a determination that grew out of the awareness that we cannot (and should not) try to do and be everything. The aftermath of the decision, however, dramatizes something very different: that even though the rhetoric of higher education in the 1990s is characterized by calls for institutional focus and for funding only the endeavors that are central to that focus, the pressure from multiple constituencies makes it very difficult for colleges and universities to move beyond talk to action. Furthermore, although most universities are not likely to face the directly comparable choice of transferring a program, this situation demonstrates instructive principles to all institutions: it is essential that their governing boards be absolutely clear about institutional mission and ensure that resources are allocated accordingly,- it is equally important that institutional mission grows out of institutional strengths; and it is crucial that boards select and support presidents whose vision is consistent with their own. Puget Sound has deliberately been true to these principles for some time.
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Freeland, Richard M. "Evolution of the College-centered University: Tufts and Brandeis, 1945–1970." In Academia's Golden Age. Oxford University Press, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195054644.003.0011.
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Tufts College, traditionally focused on undergraduate education in the arts and sciences, responded to the opportunities of the postwar years with new emphases on research and doctoral-level programs. A new name, “Tufts University,” signified the change. The leaders of Tufts intended, however, to retain a primary emphasis on undergraduate work. During these same years, a new university, Brandeis, sponsored by a group of American Jews, joined the state’s academic community. Brandeis’s founders also conceived their institution as centrally concerned with undergraduate education, although they too intended to build a modest array of graduate programs, especially in the arts and sciences. In projecting their development during the 1950s and 1960s, Tufts and Brandeis set out to become different versions of a distinctive institutional idea: the college-centered university. By the early 1940s, President Leonard Carmichael of Tufts, like his counterparts at Harvard and M.I.T., had come to regard World War II as a time of opportunity, despite immediate, war-related problems of enrollment and finance. Carmichael’s wartime reports referred repeatedly to new possibilities arising from the military emergency. He welcomed a Navy R.O.T.C. unit to Medford as a chance for greater visibility as well as for public service. He speculated that increased awareness of international issues would benefit the Fletcher School. Most important of all, given Tufts’s history of straightened finances, was the possibility of new federal support. “It is ... not too early,” Carmichael told his trustees in the middle of the war, “for all of us to do what we can to see to it that the men who administer our postwar education [at the federal level]... have an appreciation of the importance to this nation of colleges and universities with varied objectives and varied bases of administration and support.” If federal funds were to become available, Carmichael wanted to be sure that private institutions got their share, and he assured his board that “every effort is being made to maintain our relationships with the armed services... so that Tufts’s peculiar qualities—a university-college in which teaching and research go forward together—may be maintained ...”
Conference papers on the topic "Universities and colleges Graduate work Zambia"
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Wei, Yuan. "The training of researchers in the use of statistics in China." In Training Researchers in the Use if Statistics. International Association for Statistical Education, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.52041/srap.00404.
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The responsibility of training researchers in the use of statistics in China belongs to colleges, universities and research institutes. There is a National Statistical Education Association. Under the Association, the Higher Education Branch is an organisation of colleges, universities and research institutes who have a major in statistics or a statistics faculty. Since China has a population of 1.25 billion and more than 100 thousand official statisticians in the whole country, statistics training is a huge task. There are degree and non-degree training programs. In the degree program, there are undergraduate programs (colleges and universities) and graduate programs (colleges, universities and research institutes). In the non-degree training, different training programs have been used. Statistical methods are widely used in almost all the fields. The most important application areas are: official statistical work including sampling survey and data processing, micro-economic analysis, management and quality improvement, medical application, agriculture and industry experiment, etc. Most researchers in the above fields need to be trained. Many patterns have been used in training. Class teaching, group discussion, field training, TV, broadcasting programs and Internet are the main patterns.