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Public Access: A Driver for Preservation and Discovery of Datasets at a US Land-Grant Institution
(2019-08-24)
Public access to federally funded research data ensures preservation and discovery of datasets to promote translation of research evidence into meaningful outcomes. However, historical policy and concerns regarding making ...
Planning for Resilience: Predicting Vegetated Roofs’ Runoff Reduction
(2014-06-09)
The rate of incorporation of vegetated systems into urban buildings is on the rise. These systems represent a psychological link to the natural world that city-dwellers have left behind and a physical filter to temper the ...
Exploring the Role of Cultural Boundary Spanners at Complex Boundaries in Global Virtual AEC Networks
(2015)
As the architecture, engineering and construction industry continues to globalize, project work is more often executed by geographically distributed, technologically mediated teams of knowledge specialists organized into ...
Impact Evaluation of the Mozambique Rural Water Supply Activity
(Virginia Tech. School of Public and International Affairs; Stanford University, 2014-08)
In 2007, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a $506.9 million compact designed to reduce poverty in Mozambique by promoting sustainable economic growth. Among the planned investments was the installation of ...
Assessing systems thinking: A tool to measure complex reasoning through ill-structured problems
(2018-06)
An increasingly important aim of higher education is to develop graduates capable of addressing complex, interdependent problems. Systems thinking is a critical interdisciplinary skill that describes the cognitive flexibility ...
Disciplinary Influences on the Professional Identity of Civil Engineering Students: Starting the Conversation
(2016-06)
As the discipline of civil engineering has evolved from an apprentice-based trade to a socially-engaged profession, the role of the civil engineer has responded to shifts within the ever-changing culture of society. These ...
Good Policy, Good Practice. Improving Outcomes and Productivity in Higher Education: A Guide for Policymakers (Part I)
(National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2007-11-01)
This report describes a wide range of successful strategies from which states can draw to increase the educational attainment of their residents while holding down higher education costs. Part I offers examples of strategies, ...
Digest of Education Statistics 2018
(U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics; American Institutes for Research, 2019-12-01)
The report provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school up to date 2018.
Fast Facts Report for the Student Support Services Program
(U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, 2016)
The Student Support Services (SSS) program—one of the federal TRIO programs—was authorized in 1968 by the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a), as amended. The goal of SSS is to increase the postsecondary persistence ...
2019 College Senior Survey
(Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, 2020-02-01)
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) has administered the College Senior Survey since 1993; this year marked the 27th administration of the survey. This report highlights data from 17,363 seniors graduating ...