The Leadership Imperatives for Assessment Excellence: Imperative #1, Making Assessment Excellence a Strategic Institutional Priority

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Hundley
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Priority

scholarly journals The first year: A cultural shift towards improving student progress

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky Jobe
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
First Year ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Student Progress ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Retention And Graduation Rates ◽  
Institutional Priority

Student attrition has been a primary focus among higher education institutions for nearly 50 years, yet overall retention and graduation rates continue to be of significant concern. Despite increased attention, ongoing struggles of colleges and universities to effectively address potential barriers to student progress are well-documented.  Part of the challenge lies in garnering widespread organizational commitment that establishes student progress as an institutional priority.  Along with leadership commitment, broad institutional involvement and adherence to a systematic approach to testing new, innovative solutions are necessary to better position the institution to make clear, evidence-based decisions that improve the student experience. The purpose of this manuscript is to detail one university’s cultural shift towards establishing a clear student progress strategy (with particular focus on the first year), and the methodological approach that laid the foundation for a multi-year study of initiatives that resulted in improved student satisfaction, performance, and retention.

The perils of notional membership during a pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 273-280
Author(s):  
Christina L. Dobbs ◽  
Christine Montecillo Leider
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Faculty Of Color ◽  
Women Faculty ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Women Faculty Of Color ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Institutional Priority

PurposeIn this essay, the authors will describe several facets of their experience as women faculty of color in the academy during the pandemic, in order to explore how institutions might think of equity and diversity initiatives during the pandemic time.Design/methodology/approachThis essay discusses structural, leadership and individual considerations in supporting faculty from diverse backgrounds during the pandemic and beyond, by considering the typical strategies used by faculty of color to maintain active organizational memberships and how the pandemic has shifted those strategies.FindingsUltimately, this essay grapples with diversity as an institutional priority during the unique and shifting circumstances of remote work and teaching and research during the pandemic.Originality/valueThis essay provides insight into how institutions who want to maintain diversity progress during and postpandemic must be more thoughtful about the hiring structures, decision-making spaces and overarching missions.

From Oakland Turfs to Harlem’s Shake

2016 ◽  
pp. 536-556
Author(s):  
Naomi Elizabeth Bragin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Widespread Interest ◽  
Institutional Priority

In an era of official “colorblindness” and liberal multiculturalism, widespread interest in and enjoyment of hip-hop expression is underwritten by structural antiblackness. Participants on and offline gain cultural capital by performing the social codes of blackness, diverting ethical attention from the urgency of black existence, and sustaining a feeling of broad reluctance, if not refusal, to engage seriously with the history, culture, and politics of black communities. This chapter discusses hood dance practices of Harlem Shaking and Oakland Turfing, which, linked to YouTube participation, constitute more than social identity; they incorporate black improvisational aesthetics linking movement to the social life of the black neighborhood. But choreocentricity—an institutional priority of Western mass-market concert dance—reconstitutes hip-hop forms into efficient formulae for profit, bringing hip-hop into a frame of whiteness to police its global production and marketability. Thus the global viral circulation of hip-hop dance resonates deeper attachments to both blackness and antiblackness in social media and the global dance industry.

scholarly journals It’s Up to the Librarians: Establishing A Statewide OER Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J Bell ◽  
Joseph A Salem, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Campus Leaders ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Institutional Priority

Academic librarians increasingly adopt roles as campus leaders to promote the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other strategies to encourage making textbook affordability for students an institutional priority. When it comes to a statewide strategy to support academic library efforts for textbook affordability, Pennsylvania is lagging more progressive states such as Oregon, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia and Louisiana. This article makes a case for and lays out a strategy by which Pennsylvania’s academic librarians can develop a statewide initiative to tackle the challenge of textbook affordability together in order to achieve substantial progress.

scholarly journals Changing behavior – ensuring hand hygiene is an institutional priority

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (S6) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Bradford ◽  
J Brett ◽  
A Bull ◽  
B Kennedy ◽  
S Borrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Institutional Priority

scholarly journals Intergroup Relations among Ethnically Diverse University Students in Ethiopia

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abebaw Yirga Adamu
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
University Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Priority

This study focused on examining the intergroup relations among ethnically diverse university students. The study was conducted in Bahir Dar University, one of the public universities in Ethiopia– a country of “indigenous ethnic diversity”. The participants were students, teachersand support staff selected usingpurposive and snowball sampling.The necessary data were collected throughinterview andfocus group discussion. The studyrevealed different factors that are internal and external to the university facilitateand impede intergroup relations among students. The study also showed that students generally have positive attitude toward outgroups and developing positive intergroup relations. This finding has very strong implications in managing intergroup relations not only in universities but also in the society. The university management, however, was found unable to provide much support to such positive attitudesand promoting diversity mainly because of lack of institutional priority as well as managers’ confidence and diversity management skills.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jer.v3i2.8399Journal of Education and Research August 2013, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 77-95

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