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The Student Engagement Lifecycle: A Holistic Approach To Improved Student Success, Lynne Hull, Elizabeth Skursha
The Student Engagement Lifecycle: A Holistic Approach To Improved Student Success, Lynne Hull, Elizabeth Skursha
Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success
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Doctor Of Business Administration At Franklin University, Wendell Seaborne
Doctor Of Business Administration At Franklin University, Wendell Seaborne
Learning Showcase 2014
This poster highlights doctoral education at Franklin University, and more specifically, within the Ross College of Business with our proposed Doctor of Business Administration. We define and show the areas where Franklin University and Ross College of Business are addressing the difficulties that students face in more traditional settings and how we intend to facilitate, along with the faculty from the Doctor of Professional Studies, a community of learners at Franklin University. This poster showcases the joint research core courses for all doctoral students and highlights the major area courses within the Ross College of Business, as well as a …
Doctor Of Healthcare Administration At Franklin University, Leslie J. King
Doctor Of Healthcare Administration At Franklin University, Leslie J. King
Learning Showcase 2014
The healthcare profession has been experiencing dramatic change due to healthcare reform and there continues to be significant challenges on the horizon for healthcare leaders. Healthcare leaders will be facing challenges such as a large number of the work force reaching the age of retirement, a decrease in people entering into the healthcare profession, and a 22-28% increase in demand for healthcare services through 2020. Existing and future healthcare leaders will need to poses a high level of knowledge and skill in healthcare delivery in order to meet these challenges. Academic healthcare programs can help train a future workforce of …
Retention And Student Success: It's Everybody's Business, Eboni Hill
Retention And Student Success: It's Everybody's Business, Eboni Hill
Learning Showcase 2014
Colleges and universities are challenged to move the needle on student retention and success, especially in online programs. Student success coaching is effective when working in collaboration with professors, support staff and tutors to ensure that students who are potentially at risk can succeed. Success coaches would follow academic alerts issued by instructors at the onset of an at risk student. At risk conditions include missing or low grades on assignments, lack of participation in class, and attendance alerts. Success coaches do not cause a hardship or disturb the classroom environment but can serve as a resource to students who …
Transfer Students: Helping With The Transition, Blake J. Renner
Transfer Students: Helping With The Transition, Blake J. Renner
Learning Showcase 2014
A significant number of students transfer from institutions of higher education which creates challenges for both the student and the institution of higher education. The purpose of this study is to investigate transfer students, provide challenges for transfer Students, and provide recommendations for student affairs professionals of how to best serve transfer students. This study provides insight into previous research on this topic, recommendations focused on student success (graduation) of transfer students, and barriers experienced by transfer students to prepare student affairs professionals with the information to assist this student population.
Identifying The Secret Sauce Of International Academic Partnerships: Exploring The Influence Of Entrepreneurial Orientation And Resource Commitment On Partnership Performance, Christopher Washington
Identifying The Secret Sauce Of International Academic Partnerships: Exploring The Influence Of Entrepreneurial Orientation And Resource Commitment On Partnership Performance, Christopher Washington
Scholarship Forum 2013
There is a widespread belief that a positive relationship exists between an organization’s intangible assets and organizational performance. That is, organizations that cultivate intangible assets such as the ability to innovate and the ability to fully engage their human capital are said to execute more effectively and achieve better performance results than organizations without those abilities (Low and Kalafut, 2002). In recent years researchers have posited that the intangible assets of international partners launching franchises in new markets serve as critical factors enabling better performance results of the venture (Grewal, Iyer, Javalgi, and Radulovich, 2011). Although lacking a substantial research …
A Framework For Linking Organizational Climate And The Adaptation Of Elearning Methodologies At Colleges And Universities, Christopher Washington
A Framework For Linking Organizational Climate And The Adaptation Of Elearning Methodologies At Colleges And Universities, Christopher Washington
Scholarship Forum 2013
Recent educational transformation efforts employ advances in information technology to augment face-to-face teaching methods and pedagogies. Nearly 70% of U.S. higher educational institutions reported online learning as critical to their longterm strategy, and the proportion of students in the U.S. taking at least one online course is at an all-time high. These eLearning initiatives stem from a variety of motivations including increasing access to education, accelerating learning in difficult subjects, and reducing instructional cost to individuals and society. Most chief academic officers at universities rate the learning outcomes for online education “as good as or better” than those for face-to-face …