Higher Education and Student Employment Needs

Iranian Adolescents With Physical-Motor Disabilities: Needs and Problems in Education and Employment

Objectives: The needs and problems of students with physical-motor disabilities should be properly identified in order to solve them. The main purpose of this research was to determine the needs and problems of Iranian male students with physical-motor disabilities in the education and employment dimensions.  Methods: This was a descriptive study. All the male students with physical-motor...

Why American higher education needs parasitologists.

Insights for Student Success in Higher Education

Motivation is a subject that has long interested researchers and practitioners seeking to understand human behavior and performance. Over the course of the 20th century and into the new millennium, scholars have developed sweeping theories and have amassed large bodies of applied research investigating motivation across a variety of settings. Motivation has been studied in schools, the workplac...

Student Transfer in California Public Higher Education

This paper provides a brief history of student transfer from California community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions, and includes recent data on how the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) are meeting the 60:40 upper division to lower division student ratio called for in SB 121 (Statutes of 1991, Chapter 1188). In particular, it addresses past l...

Improving higher education through student satisfaction surveys

Along with the educational expansion and the increasing demand regarding accountability for the outcomes of higher education institutions, a great emphasis is put on students' feedback. The present paper is focused on the educational results obtained by the implementation of student satisfaction surveys in a Romanian university. The survey instruments measure three dimensions (the teaching and ...