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Offering Collegiate Livestock Judging As A Student Organization, Maryfrances Miller, Don W. Edgar, Lyle Logemann

The Journal of Extension

Resource constraints have lowered the number of collegiate livestock judging teams, dropping the number of opportunities for collegiate judging, even though interest among students remains high. These opportunities can be provided for less expense through student-led extracurricular organizations. This approach increases the student initiative required, but also provides an increased opportunity for developing and demonstrating leadership skills.

Book Review: Robot-Proof: Higher Education In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence By Joseph Aoun, Jordan O'Connell

Essays in Education

This book review examines Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph Aoun, which focuses on the imperative to evolve higher education in preparation for AI-driven job labor market shifts that are only now entering the public consciousness. Aoun advocates for a new "humanics" curriculum that emphasizes cognitive skills and literacies robots cannot replicate. Highlighting numerous historical reinventions of the our education systems over the centuries, Aoun makes a compelling case that our colleges and universities once again find themselves responsible for preparing Americans for the technological displacements and miracles still to come.

Quality Measurement Of Blended Learning Model In Higher Education: Scale Development And Validation, Rajeshwari Panigrahi, Khaliq Lubza Nihar, Neha Singh

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objective: This study aimed to develop and test a scale for measuring the quality of blended learning models in higher education.

Methods: This research adopts a sequential mixed-method approach to construct a new measurement scale. The first phase consisted of the inductive approach to identify the items, followed by exploratory factor analysis. The identified dimensions were tested for reliability and validity in the second phase.

Results: The Blended Learning Quality Assessment (BLQA) contains 4 dimensions: Technology Integration, Pedagogy and Curriculum, Physical Infrastructure, and Educator Proficiency. The scale is comprised of 26 items assessing the quality of blended learning programs in …

2023 Tcpea Outstanding Dissertation Of The Year Research Summary, Maegan Collins, Kaye Shelton Dissertation Chair

School Leadership Review

This phenomenological study explored perceived first-generation college student retention at a Texas four-year higher education institution post-vertical transfer. The participants in this study consisted of 12 full-time and part- time students who identified as first-generation college students and had vertically transferred from a two-year higher education institution. In addition, participants transferred between 35 and 120 academic credit hours from a two-year higher education institution and had been enrolled for at least one academic semester at their four-year higher education institution. On-campus and virtual semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed, which resulted in major themes. This study revealed academic and social …

Perceptions Of Social Belonging Within Higher Education Students, Sydney Hicks, Magdalene Moy

SACAD: John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activity Days

The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of a student-centered social media platform for higher education students. Social belonging significantly influences educational success, as heightened feelings of belonging among students correlate with increased motivation to stay engaged and learn (Marler et al., 2021). The conceptual framework for this study uses the intersection of social presence and social capital as resulting in social belonging. Social capital refers to the networks students build through interactions with others that could prove to be valuable resources (Lefebrve et al., 2016). Social presence looks at the interaction and relational aspects of these …

Sensitizing Jordanian Higher Education Workers On The Importance Of Quality Education, Ramzi Abu Ghazalah

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

Higher education is one of the important aspects of strengthening human resources and developing their capabilities and capabilities in the country, in all areas of social, cultural, political, economic, and other life. Therefore, all academic, educational, and educational institutions are keen to improve the quality and outputs of higher education, because it is the human wealth that will develop and prosper in society. Many of the internal and external factors of these institutions affect the quality of higher education. Hence, the interest in researching the awareness of workers in the higher education sector - administrators, employees, and teaching staff - …

Challenging Elitism In Higher Education And Graduate Employability: A Thinking Piece, Bushra Baboo Rally

Journal of Graduate Education Research

This paper critically examines the prevalence of elitism in higher education and the complex challenge it posits for graduate employability. Several sections of this paper explore the concept of elitism through the lens of positional conflict theory and narrow it down to the relative graduate employability challenges that are experienced due to various factors. The current paper contributes to knowledge since the existing pool of literature does not tackle, in isolation, the function of elitism in posing employment challenges for recent graduates and is not expressed in the current conceptualisations selected in this paper. The paper ends with a call …

القدرة التفسيرية والتنبؤية لعدة عوامل على عمليات وممارسات التخطيط الاستراتيجي بجامعة تبوك من وجهة نظر أعضاء هيئة التدريس والقيادات الأكاديمية, Yahya Mohammad Alshehri

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال تقصي واقع التخطيط الاستراتيجي من خلال استبيان احتوى ثلاثة محاور(متغيرات): أهمية التخطيط الاستراتيجي، وعمليات وممارسات التخطيط الاستراتيجي، وإدارة ومتابعة عمليات التخطيط الاستراتيجي من وجهة نظر عينة (333) من أعضاء هيئة التدريس والقيادات الأكاديمية بجامعة تبوك. وقد تم استخدام عدة أساليب إحصائية (وصفية، وارتباطية، وتحليل الانحدار المتعدد) للإجابة على أسئلة الدراسة، وأظهرت النتائج أن واقع التخطيط الاستراتيجي بشكل عام وفي متغيرات الدراسة كانت بدرجة متوسطة، وأن الارتباط بين متغيرات الاستبانة كانت ما بين متوسطة إلى قوية، وأن المتغيرين المستقلين (أهمية التخطيط الاستراتيجي، وإدارة ومتابعة عمليات التخطيط الاستراتيجي) لهما قدرة تنبؤيه وتفسيرية دالة إحصائياً وبشكل إيجابي على المتغير التابع (عمليات …