scholarly journals Canadian University Social Software Guidelines and Academic Freedom: An Alarming Labour Trend

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Taryn Lough ◽  
Toni Samek
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year

An analysis of first-stage social software guidelines of nine Canadian universities conducted in the 2012-13 academic year with the aim to reveal limits to academic freedom. Carleton University’s guidelines serve as the anchor case, while those of eight other institutions are included to signify a national trend. Implications for this work are central to academic labour. In as much as academic staff have custody and control of all records they create, except records created in and for administrative capacity, these guidelines are interpreted to be alarming. Across the guidelines, framing of social media use by academic staff (even for personal use) as representative of the university assumes academic staff should have an undying loyalty to their institution. The guidelines are read as obvious attempts to control rather than merely guide, and speak to the nature of institutional overreach in the related names of reputation (brand), responsibility (authoritarianism), safety (paternalistically understood and enforced), and the free marketplace of [the right] ideas.

scholarly journals Extracurricular Partnerships as a Tool for Enhancing Graduate Employability

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David I Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
The Public ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

The world of work is changing rapidly, with an increasing global demand for employees with higher-level skills. Employees need to have the right attitudes and aptitudes for work, possess work-relevant skills, and have relevant experience. Whilst universities are embedding employability into their curricula, partnerships outside of the taught curriculum provide additional, largely untapped, opportunities for students to develop these key skills and gain valuable work experience. Two extracurricular partnership opportunities were created for Bioscience undergraduates at the University of Leeds, UK: an educational research internships scheme, where students work in partnership with fellow students and academic staff on on-going educational projects, and Pop-Up Science, a unique, student-led public engagement volunteer scheme. Both schemes generate substantial benefits for all. They enhance student’s skills and employability, facilitate and enhance staff-student education practices and research, and engage the public with research in the Biosciences. Collectively, they demonstrate the extraordinary value and benefits accrued from developing extracurricular partnerships between students, staff, and the community.

scholarly journals The Academic Freedom among the Students at the Hashemite University: الحرية الأكاديمية لدى طلبة الجامعة الهاشمية

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abd AlKhaleq Muhammad Al-Zyoud
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Study Results ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Hashemite University ◽  
Senior Students ◽  
Academic Year

This study aimed at exploring the level of academic freedom at the Hashemite University in Jordan from the perspective of the undergraduate students, and whether there are impacts of the students’ gender, academic level, or specialization. The sample consisted of (376) undergraduate students (111 male, 265 female), who are registered at the university for the first semester of the academic year 2019/2020, from all faculties of the Hashemite University. The results showed that 25.5% of participants perceived a high level of academic freedom, 57.2% of participants perceived a moderate level, and 17.3% of them perceived a low level. Significant differences were found due to academic level; academic freedom perceived level among senior students was higher than all other years (freshmen, sophomores and juniors), but no significant differences were found due to students’ gender, or specialization. In light of the study results, the researcher recommends a number of recommendations such as: raising the awareness about the academic freedom among the students, faculty members, and the staff the Jordanian universities, conducting survey studies that measure the level of academic freedom among the students at various Jordanian universities, Supporting the academic freedom of the students at the institutions of higher education through deliberate and planned initiatives.

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1551-1580 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Subject Classifications ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The University ◽  
Degree Recipients ◽  
Academic Year

The list below specifies doctoral degrees conferred by U.S. and Canadian universities during academic year July 2015 to June 2016. Lists of degree recipients and subject classifications are provided by the university. Note: Dissertations without classifications may be found under “Y Miscellaneous Categories.”

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Seventeenth Annual List

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1302-1330
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Subject Classifications ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The University ◽  
Degree Recipients ◽  
Academic Year

The list below specifies doctoral degrees conferred by U.S. and Canadian universities during academic year July 2019 to June 2020. Lists of degree recipients and subject classifications are provided by the university. Note: Dissertations without classifications may be found under “Y Miscellaneous Categories.”

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Ninth Annual List

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1281-1310 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Subject Classifications ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The University ◽  
Degree Recipients ◽  
Academic Year

The list below specifies doctoral degrees conferred by U.S. and Canadian universities during academic year July 2011 to June 2012. Lists of degree recipients and subject classifications are provided by the university. Note: Dissertations without classifications may be found under “Y Miscellaneous Categories.”

scholarly journals The Ph.D.-candidate as an information literate resource

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Daland
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

One of Agder University Librarys goals is to support teaching and research at the University of Agder (UoA). To do so, the library should be involved in research projects and offer the right products at the right time. The spring of 2012 a survey was conducted among researchers (academic staff and Ph.D.-students) at the faculty of humanities and education at UoA as well as the library staff. Aditional interviews was made with the library´s research librarians and two of the Ph.D.-students. The surveys and interviews made it clear that researchers and librarians have a different conception on what research support is and should be. While librarians focus mostly on library resources, the researchers focus more generally on practical, economical and administrative help to make research possible. However, the majority answered yes to the question on the library being an important part of research support.Working closely with the researchers can help to offer the right library resources at the right time. Ph.D.-students are less likely to be set in their ways in regards to information behaviour and will often be positive to try new approaches. Also, the Ph.D.-students can be used as a reference group for developing library resources for researchers, for example subject guides. The outside perspective on the library can help to find new ways of approaching research support to make it more useful to researchers.

scholarly journals Proposing an Electronic System for Following-up and Managing the Field Training: Palestine Ahliya University as a Case: نظام إلكتروني مقترح لمتابعة وإدارة التدريب الميداني في جامعة فلسطين الأهلية: دراسة حالة

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameh Taqatqa, Ahmad Hasasneh, Jamil Itmazi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Training System ◽  
Field Training ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Training Unit ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Obviously, digital technology offers simplified solutions to solve or mitigate problems in general. In the academic sector in particular, the field training is one of the core courses that students must enroll during the third and fourth academic year, where the students have manually to select a relevant organization or institution based on their specialization. The academic staff and hosting institutions do not supervise the trainees as required due to lack of communication between them, wrong selection of the hosting institutions by students in some cases, limited following-up the trainees, thus leading to uncertainty in the number of training hours and reports required by students. These problems can be addressed or mitigated by proposing an electronic training system improving the communication between supervisors of field training, host institutions, and trainees and thus solving most of the mentioned problems. Based on this e-training system, the training unit at the university could therefore follow-up the trainees and thus improve the communication and cooperation with the training institutions. It will also definitely contribute in improving the training task itself for the students. In this proposed paper, the importance of the proposed system was presented. Other related systems were mentioned and used as references in the analysis stage. In the analytical stage, data was collected using 3 different questionnaires developed for students, supervising staff, and for the training institutions. Consequently, obstacles and problems faced these entities were extracted and mentioned. Finally, a preliminary design was proposed in this paper to develop and implement an electronic training system at Palestine Ahliya University.

scholarly journals UKRAINIAN FREE UNIVERSITY IN GERMANY DURING THE DP PERIOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Halyna Klynova-Datsiuk
Keyword(s):  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Educational Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The article deals with the activities of the Ukrainian Free University in Germany (UFU) during the DP period (1945–1952). The process of resumption of the UFU operation is described. The initiator of this case was the last rector of the University of Prague and historian Vadym Shcherbakіvsky. Well-known scientists Dmytro Doroshenko, Petro Kurinny, Ivan Mirchuk, Panteleimon Kovaliv and others supported his initiative. It is noted that the Bavarian authorities and the American occupation were positive about the resumption of the university. The educational process in the higher education institution began in the summer semester of 1946. The structure of the Ukrainian Free University in Germany had two faculties: philosophy from the departments of philosophy and pedagogy, philology (Ukrainian, classical, and Slavic), history, geography, archeology, ethnology and art sciences, as well as law and socio-economic sciences from various departments. It is stated that the most active in the functioning of the university was the 1947–1948 academic year. As 492 students were educated and 95 teachers worked, a significant amount of educational literature was published. The university charter of 1948, which was the basic document regulating the functioning of the institution and giving it the right to broad autonomy and free publication, is also analyzed. The article also proves that in addition to educational work in the UFU, a publishing business was developed. Among the publications of the university was mainly educational literature, in particular textbooks for students (scripts), which were printed in cyclostyle. In order to inform students about the content of academic disciplines, the number of lectures, seminars, practical classes, lecture programs were published. To facilitate the study of educational material, university teachers issued lecture notes. Among such publications are lectures by M. Andrusiak “History of the Cossacks”, I. Mirchuk “Introduction to Philosophy”, V. Kubiyovych “Geography of Ukraine” and others. The UFU played an important role in preserving the national and cultural identity of the Ukrainian people and consolidating the Ukrainian scientific forces in exile.

scholarly journals ACADEMIC STAFF TRAINING TRANSFER AND ITS IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 993-1001
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Fahad Sulaiman ◽  
Najib Sheikh Abdisamad ◽  
Owolabi Sunday Oluwatosin ◽  
Ahmed Abdul Malik
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Training Transfer ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Task Requirements ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Purpose: This study investigates the effect of training transfer to organizational performance through collaboration among academic staff. It provides a clear understanding of specific training transfer concepts and processes during their engagement in the university activities. Several issues affecting training transfer from the learning environment to impact the performance of academic staff were reported. Methodology: A semi-structured interview among four academic staffs through a purposive sampling method. The qualitative analysis had been transcribed and coded. The data gained from the interviews were themed for the purpose of the analysis. Main findings: The findings suggest that there should be training, honest communication, knowledge management, creating the right environment, identifying collaborative leaders, and making collaboration a natural part of the workflow. This was motivated by the increasing need to improve worker's skills through training which encompasses a significant aspect of the modern organization. It is concluded that deciphered training to improve specific task requirements. Therefore, monitoring training transfer provides organizations the opportunity to improve specific work environments and academician’s performance. It is recommended that training transfer and collaboration need to be an important aspect of the organizational process to improve performance outcomes. Implications/Applications: This research is important for academic staff at the Faculty of leadership and management at (USIM) who participated in the research to enhance organizational performance. Therefore, it has provided insights to other academic staff to imitate and the authorities to create a room for achievement for the organization.

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1672-1700
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Subject Classifications ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The University ◽  
Degree Recipients ◽  
Academic Year

The list below specifies doctoral degrees conferred by U.S. and Canadian universities during academic year July 2017 to June 2018. Lists of degree recipients and subject classifications are provided by the university. Note: Dissertations without classifications may be found under “Y Miscellaneous Categories.”

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