Fostering a GREAT Place for Student Success: Critical Component #5, Tell Prospective Students, Their Parents, and Other Influencers about the Institution's Value Proposition

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Hundley
Keyword(s):  
Student Success ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Prospective Students

Effective Approaches in Higher Education Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 206-227
Author(s):  
Andrew Aaron Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Higher Education Development ◽  
Tuition Costs

Effective approaches in higher education development will look at a variety of topics ranging from corporate and foundation relations, to alumni participation, the importance of online giving, campaigns, top advancement trends in higher education, and the ever-critical cultivation of major and mega gifts. The education of a constituency about the importance of private gifts to both public and private institutions cannot be overstated as well given that tuition costs soar yet prospective students, parents, and boards continue to fight for the value proposition. After reading, reviewing, and studying this chapter, faculty, students, and professionals alike will have surveyed knowledge of effective approach in higher education development and will have a greater appreciation for the work that development staff encounter every day. The objective of this book “to explore contemporary and future philanthropy approaches and development theory in international higher education,” will certainly be enhanced exponentially by the thorough and useful information presented.

scholarly journals The Code-Centric Nature of Computational Thinking Education: A Review of Trends and Issues in Computational Thinking Education Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance Kite ◽  
Soonhye Park ◽  
Eric Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Content Integration ◽  
Core Curricula ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Professional Development For Teachers

<div><div><div><p>Computational thinking (CT) is being recognized as a critical component of student success in the digital era. Many contend that integrating CT into core curricula is the surest method for providing all students with access to CT. However, the CT community lacks an agreed-upon conceptualization of CT that would facilitate this integration, and little effort has been made to critically analyze and synthesize research on CT/content integration (CTCI). Conflicting CT conceptualizations and little understanding of evidence-based strategies for CTCI could result in significant barriers to increasing students’ access to CT. To address these concerns, we analyzed 80 studies on CT education, focusing on both the CT conceptualizations guiding current CT education research and evidence-based strategies for CTCI. Our review highlights the code-centric nature of CT education and reveals significant gaps in our understanding of CTCI and CT professional development for teachers. Based on these findings we propose an approach to operationalizing CT that promotes students’ participation in CT, present promising methods for infusing content with CT, and discuss future directions for CT education research.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals The Code-Centric Nature of Computational Thinking Education: A Review of Trends and Issues in Computational Thinking Education Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance Kite ◽  
Soonhye Park ◽  
Eric Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Content Integration ◽  
Core Curricula ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Professional Development For Teachers

<div><div><div><p>Computational thinking (CT) is being recognized as a critical component of student success in the digital era. Many contend that integrating CT into core curricula is the surest method for providing all students with access to CT. However, the CT community lacks an agreed-upon conceptualization of CT that would facilitate this integration, and little effort has been made to critically analyze and synthesize research on CT/content integration (CTCI). Conflicting CT conceptualizations and little understanding of evidence-based strategies for CTCI could result in significant barriers to increasing students’ access to CT. To address these concerns, we analyzed 80 studies on CT education, focusing on both the CT conceptualizations guiding current CT education research and evidence-based strategies for CTCI. Our review highlights the code-centric nature of CT education and reveals significant gaps in our understanding of CTCI and CT professional development for teachers. Based on these findings we propose an approach to operationalizing CT that promotes students’ participation in CT, present promising methods for infusing content with CT, and discuss future directions for CT education research.</p></div></div></div>

Effective Student-Advisor Engagement and Relationship Building in Online Graduate Programs

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-191
Author(s):  
Jennifer Varney
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Student Advisor

The goal of this chapter is to discuss the importance of advisor-student engagement as a critical component of student success. Much has been written about advising undergraduate students and strategies for working with first generation students and other challenges specific to undergraduate students, and this chapter will focus on working with online graduate students. Heisserer and Parette noted that contact with a significant person within an institution of higher education is a crucial factor in a student's decision to remain in college. The focus on this chapter is on how advisors can be the significant person within the institution for their graduate students, and how advisors can help students successfully integrate into the institution academically and socially to increase their likelihood of retention and success.

Social facts and ethical hardware: Ethics in the value proposition

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Graham Spickett‐Jones ◽  
Philip J. Kitchen ◽  
Jon D. Reast
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Uncertainty Reduction ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Social Fact

Providing a framework for integrating aspects of externally directed corporate and marketing communication efforts, this paper makes a case for the communication of positive and credible ethical values as a potentially critical component in communications strategy and sustainable competitive advantage. Using an uncertainty‐reduction model adapted from the diffusion literature, it is suggested that appropriately communicated moral and ethical values can have a role in underpinning an organisation’s reputation and “trusted capacities”, thereby heightening confidence in likely future actions, offering a predictive mechanism for lowering uncertainty in market transactions, and facilitating a potential to trade by offering a rationale for an organisation’s secure market position. Underpinned by ethical principles, the paper proposes implications for the role of “reputation for trustworthiness” and its symbolic evocation. It is argued that a reputation can become accepted as a social “fact”, able to endure critical interrogation in its social environment.

scholarly journals The Code-Centric Nature of Computational Thinking Education: A Review of Trends and Issues in Computational Thinking Education Research

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110164
Author(s):  
Vance Kite ◽  
Soonhye Park ◽  
Eric Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Content Integration ◽  
Core Curricula ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Professional Development For Teachers

Computational thinking (CT) is being recognized as a critical component of student success in the digital era. Many contend that integrating CT into core curricula is the surest method for providing all students with access to CT. However, the CT community lacks an agreed-upon conceptualization of CT that would facilitate this integration, and little effort has been made to critically analyze and synthesize research on CT/content integration (CTCI). Conflicting CT conceptualizations and little understanding of evidence-based strategies for CTCI could result in significant barriers to increasing students’ access to CT. To address these concerns, we analyzed 80 studies on CT education, focusing on both the CT conceptualizations guiding current CT education research and evidence-based strategies for CTCI. Our review highlights the code-centric nature of CT education and reveals significant gaps in our understanding of CTCI and CT professional development for teachers. Based on these findings, we propose an approach to operationalizing CT that promotes students’ participation in CT, present promising methods for infusing content with CT, and discuss future directions for CT education research.

Effective Approaches in Higher Education Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 761-778
Author(s):  
Andrew Aaron Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Higher Education Development ◽  
Tuition Costs

Effective approaches in higher education development will look at a variety of topics ranging from corporate and foundation relations, to alumni participation, the importance of online giving, campaigns, top advancement trends in higher education, and the ever-critical cultivation of major and mega gifts. The education of a constituency about the importance of private gifts to both public and private institutions cannot be overstated as well given that tuition costs soar yet prospective students, parents, and boards continue to fight for the value proposition. After reading, reviewing, and studying this chapter, faculty, students, and professionals alike will have surveyed knowledge of effective approach in higher education development and will have a greater appreciation for the work that development staff encounter every day. The objective of this book “to explore contemporary and future philanthropy approaches and development theory in international higher education,” will certainly be enhanced exponentially by the thorough and useful information presented.

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