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Integrating Professional Sustainability Literacy into the Master of Public Administration Curriculum
Kinzer, Kirsten – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Public administration, or the implementation of public policies by civil servants, will be central to implementing the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. And yet, few American master of public administration (MPA) programs explicitly focus on sustainable development or sustainability literacy. This study asks whether it is…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Student Interests
Stuteville, Rebekkah; Click, Eric – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
The acceptance of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as a legitimate form of scholarly investigation and the shape that it takes in post-secondary education are inherently discipline-specific. This paper examines how the character and heritage of public administration influence the acceptance of SoTL, and the form that it takes. It…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Kim, Younhee – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
A capstone experience, as an exit degree requirement, allows Master of Public Administration (MPA) students to build quasi-experimental practices by applying learned knowledge and skills throughout their curriculum in the United States. Accredited MPA programs have implemented their capstone courses differently to achieve required standards. Small…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Program Design, Professional Education
Wigfall, Patricia Moss; Hall, Paula Quick – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
This paper focuses on the role of gender in faculty choice of teaching methodologies at colleges and universities in North Carolina. We replicate research conducted by Hartlaub and Lancaster who examined pedagogical preference among a national sample of political science instructors. In revisiting that inquiry, published in 2008, we have explored…
Descriptors: Political Science, Research Methodology, Public Administration, Public Policy
Becnel, Kim; O'Shea, Patrick – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2013
This paper describes the design of an innovative educational experience that took place during the summer of 2011 with a cohort of library science students at Appalachian State University. This group of students, working online in their own virtual public libraries, engaged in an extended epistemic game that required the participants to undertake…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Administration, Library Education, Educational Games
Wheeler, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 1922, Ellwood Cubberley characterized the superintendency by stating, "No profession offers such large personal rewards for the opportunity of living one's life in molding other lives, and in helping to improve materially the intellectual tone and moral character of a community" (Public school administration: A statement of the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Labor Turnover, Stress Variables, Job Performance
Stephens, John B.; Morse, Ricardo S. – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
Many graduate public affairs programs offer both residential and online options for students. One of the challenges for multi-format programs is creating a sense of belonging among online students who may never set foot on campus. In 2017, the MPA program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill developed an "immersion" course…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship
Sorensen, Lucy C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Purpose: In an era of unprecedented student measurement and emphasis on data-driven educational decision making, the full potential for using data to target resources to students has yet to be realized. This study explores the utility of machine-learning techniques with large-scale administrative data to identify student dropout risk. Research…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Dropouts, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Dusseault, Bree; Pitts, Christine; Lake, Robin – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2021
When public schools closed their doors in the spring of 2020, an estimated 3 million students went missing from formal schooling of any sort. During the beginning of the 2020-21 school year, a mixture of public confusion and mistrust of guidelines coming from state and federal authorities led to a churn of reopening and reclosing schools. However,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Summer Programs
Bryson-Evans, Cassie Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The significance of this study was its ability to further inform district and state level leaders and policy makers on the supports of the advancement and service of North Carolina's Latinx educators in school leadership roles. More specifically, this study shed light on the barriers and supports faced by Latinx public school administrators in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Leadership, Hispanic Americans, School Administration
Butcher, Jonathan – Heritage Foundation, 2019
The White House released an executive order to protect free speech on college campuses, appropriately highlighting the issue of ongoing threats to expression in the ivory tower. The President and his Administration exercised restraint with this order by directing federal agencies to stay within the bounds of existing law as the agencies implement…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, College Students, College Environment, Higher Education
Bradshaw, Lynn K.; Perreault, George; McDowelle, James O.; Bell, Edwin W. – 1997
North Carolina's legislature mandated changes in principal preparation programs and funded a program for Principal Fellows to receive loans for a full-time, 2-year program toward initial administrator licensure. This paper examines data from three innovative components in one university's program under that mandate: extended internships,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Fellowships, Graduate Study
Giersch, Jason; Dong, Christopher – Journal of Educational Administration, 2018
Purpose: What do principals look for when hiring teachers? The purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge concerning what aspects of teacher quality are in demand among the individuals who administer schools and make hiring decisions. Design/methodology/approach: Rather than employing interviews or surveys, the authors utilized a conjoint…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Selection, Preferences, Teacher Effectiveness
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Compensatory Education. – 1973
The revised handbook provides specific references to the legislation and the National Migrant Program Guidelines, while setting forth the administrative procedures required for migrant projects in North Carolina. Specific topics of discussion in migrant program administration cover Public Law 89-750, state and local educational agency…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrator Guides, Ancillary Services, Educational Finance
Wolfe, Christy; Sheridan-McIver, Fiona – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2018
Public charter schools present tremendous opportunities to increase the access of Native students to high-quality schools. Understanding current growth and the location of schools serving Native students is an important first step in the larger policy discussion on Native education and charter schools. This brief provides the latest data available…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Hawaiians