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Full-Text Articles in Education
Tracking The Use Of Leed® In Facilities For Higher Education, Shannon M. Chance
Tracking The Use Of Leed® In Facilities For Higher Education, Shannon M. Chance
Shannon M. Chance
America’s 4391 institutions of higher learning own roughly 240,000 buildings according to The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2009) and the United States Green Building Council [USGBC] (n.d.). Most of these buildings’ designs reflect a time when energy was cheap and material abundant. Throughout the past century, building designs frequently ignored their surroundings, usurped energy at appalling rates, and did little to teach inhabitants respect for the environment (Fox, 2007; McDonough & Braungart 2002; Orr, 2007). As our colleges renovate and expand their facilities today, however, their activities reflect a decided shift in values. Over the past few …
Assessment In Times Of Turbulence: Using Assessment Tools To Understand And Change Departmental Processes Students, Jennifer Massey
Assessment In Times Of Turbulence: Using Assessment Tools To Understand And Change Departmental Processes Students, Jennifer Massey
Jennifer Massey
No abstract provided.
Queen’S & Kingston…Working Creatively Together To Connect Students And Local Employers, Jennifer Massey
Queen’S & Kingston…Working Creatively Together To Connect Students And Local Employers, Jennifer Massey
Jennifer Massey
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Faculty Sense Of Agency In Decisions About Work And Family, Kerryann O'Meara, Corbin M. Campbell
Faculty Sense Of Agency In Decisions About Work And Family, Kerryann O'Meara, Corbin M. Campbell
KerryAnn O'Meara
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The Pursuit Of Prestige: The Experience Of Institutional Striving From A Faculty Perspective, Kerryann O'Meara, Alan Bloomgarden
The Pursuit Of Prestige: The Experience Of Institutional Striving From A Faculty Perspective, Kerryann O'Meara, Alan Bloomgarden
KerryAnn O'Meara
Each year many colleges compete to increase their national rankings within the academic hierarchy. As institutions make decisions and take actions with external rankings in mind, their pursuit of external prestige inevitably influences institutional members and stakeholders. The faculty experience of this pursuit of prestige, or institutional “striving,” is largely unknown. Through data from 29 interviews at one self-identified striving liberal arts college, this article examines faculty experience of institutional striving with attention to how faculty perceive the origins of striving, and its influence on institutional identity and direction, their own work-lives and reward systems.