scholarly journals The academic linkage of the information and library departments in Arab universities and its impact on developing their curricula and academic decisions .

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-381
Author(s):  
Sainaa Musahb
Keyword(s):  
Academic Decisions

Ethics of Relationships between Accounting Academics and External Sponsors

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Mintz ◽  
Li Dang ◽  
Arline Savage
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Academic Units ◽  
Cpa Firm ◽  
Academic Decisions

ABSTRACT: A variety of relationships can develop between accounting academics, academic units, and external sponsors that raise issues of ethical propriety. External donors may seek to influence academic decisions by applying pressure on recipients to gain favored treatment. We believe these types of situations are on the rise because of increased commercialization of universities. In this study, we examine relationships between accounting academics and external sponsors that challenge academic independence because of conflicts of interest when donors seek to impose conditions on financial support. We solicit the opinions of academic accountants about how likely they are to go along with the conditions. We link these activities to the following ethical issues: fair-mindedness, objectivity, and integrity. We conclude that the more experienced accounting academics (i.e., full professors, current chairs, holders of endowed chairs, and designated faculty fellows) are less likely to engage in ethically questionable relationships with external sponsors than academics who are less experienced. The results are driven primarily by two cases: allowing a Big 4 CPA firm to interview students before other firms as a condition of continued recruiting, and allowing a firm to decide on the recipient of a named faculty fellowship.

Faculty Perceptions of the Sources and Types of Pressure to Assist Student Athletes

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry J. Weber ◽  
Thomas M. Sherman ◽  
Carmen Tegano
Keyword(s):  
Student Athletes ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Academic Decisions ◽  
Research Faculty

In this research, faculty reported attempts to influence their academic decisions regarding student athletes. In most instances the pressure was not formal or frequently applied, and it appeared to have little influence on faculty judgments or their willingness to assist athletes. Except for isolated situations of a flagrant nature that are sensationalized by the media, the problem seems not to be a major one.

scholarly journals Supporting the development of assessment literacy of staff through institutional process change

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Forsyth ◽  
Rod Cullen ◽  
Neil S. Ringan ◽  
Mark Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Assessment Literacy ◽  
Process Change ◽  
Staff Assessment ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Academic Decisions ◽  
Institutional Process

This paper reflects on the work done at a large UK university to redesign assessment procedures in a way that was intended to contribute to an improvement in assessment literacy for staff. Existing practice was reviewed and showed that changes in assessment processes were needed to make the organization of assessment more consistent and more transparent across the institution and to develop staff assessment literacy. Revised procedures were designed and implemented in order to make a clear distinction between institutional requirements for ensuring standards and recording outcomes, and academic decisions that ensured that assessment was designed to be appropriate for disciplinary requirements.

scholarly journals SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PERENCANAAN AKADEMIK DENGAN METODE BEST FIRST SEARCH ( Studi Kasus di Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Adisutjipto )

Compiler ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atika Rina ◽  
Anton Setiawan Honggowibowo ◽  
NurCahyani Dewi Retnowati
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Support System ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Best First Search ◽  
Academic Decisions ◽  
Computerized System

With the rapid growth in current technology, academic systems in higher education has been computerized. Academic who has a computerized system is considered more effective. The computerized system has can be used to plan the academic activities of students for taking Strata 1 at the College of Technology Adisutjipto. The system uses Decision Support System (DSS) to give some conditions on Best First Search (BFS) method so that the method can be used in a subsequent advisory list of the best courses in accordance with the terms that have been obtained, which will help students in making academic decisions. Of the BFS method, students are given a solution in the form of a list next semester of courses that can be taken in accordance with the terms obtained from the previous semester in the form of Performance Index and the solution was given until the end of the lecture the student and provides the calculation of the total cost of each semester.

scholarly journals An agreement-based approach for reliability assessment of Students’ Evaluations of Teaching

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMALIA VANACORE ◽  
Maria Sole Pellegrino
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Reliability Assessment ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Quality In Higher Education ◽  
Academic Decisions

Students’ Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) are the most common way to measure teaching quality in Higher Education: they are assuming a strategic role in monitoring teaching quality, becoming helpful in taking the major formative and summative academic decisions. The majority of studies investigating SETs reliability focus on the instruments and the procedures adopted to collect students' evaluations rather than on the capability of the students as teaching quality assessors. In order to overcome this lack, a study has been carried out with the aim of measuring SETs reliability in terms of inter-student agreement and intra-student agreement. The results of our study show that the majority of students provided substantially repeatable evaluations whereas only a few students provided almost perfectly repeatable evaluations; the evaluations provided by different students generally slightly agreed, which means that the students did not share the same opinions and beliefs on teaching quality.

scholarly journals Don't Drop Out, Drop In: A Workshop for At-Risk Students

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn N. Brooks-Harris ◽  
Val G. Mori ◽  
Lynne M. Higa
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Academic Difficulties ◽  
Intervention Method ◽  
Campus Resources ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Decisions

This article describes a workshop that is targeted at students overcoming academic difficulties after a one-semester suspension. Participants are encouraged to use campus resources, empowered to make better personal and academic decisions, and given an opportunity to connect with other students and the university as a whole. This workshop represents an efficient intervention method that can increase retention and is easily transferable to other universities.

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