Public State University Research Articles

Participatory planning and institutional performance of state public universities in Mexico

Participatory planning and institutional performance of state public universities in Mexico

Ethics, transparency and finances in state public universities in Mexico

The UPE in Mexico are entities that financially operate by means of subsidies granted by the federation and the federal entities, which are used to fulfill their substantive and administrative functions; the subsidies are public resources subject to auditing according to various federal provisions; This article highlights the importance of ethics, transparency and accountability in state public universities in Mexico, by means of a non-experimental analysis of quantitative and correlational type and having as results those issued by the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) in the fiscal year 2020 where it made an average of 20 observations for each UPE of which 3. In addition, there is a moderate correlation between observations made and observations not solved, concluding that ethics, transparency and accountability are determining factors in the efficient use of financial resources in the UPE in Mexico.

Instructor-Driven Causes and Impacts of Grade Inflation in Philippine Higher Education

Grade inflation in Philippine higher education is a growing concern, with instructors increasingly assigning higher grades to students. This paper investigates instructor-driven causes behind grade inflation and its impacts. Autoethnography was used as a method. The study locale was public state universities and colleges in Taguig City and Muntinlupa City, Philippines; data collection involved immersion, a personal diary, and informal discussions with faculty and students. Thematic analysis, guided by research inquiries, unveiled the factors driving this trend. Results suggest compassionate grading, influenced by a desire to support students facing challenges, fosters inflated success perceptions. Laziness, apathy, and sycophancy also contribute to lax grading, hindering genuine academic growth. Meanwhile, the impacts extend beyond academia, affecting graduates' skill acquisition and potentially dissatisfying employers. Recommendations advocate for enhanced accountability among instructors through rigorous evaluation systems and continuous professional development to safeguard academic standards. Combating grade inflation necessitates collaborative efforts to uphold education quality and integrity, benefiting students, institutions, and society.

Analyzing Student Success Outcome Variables in Higher Education Utilizing the Chi-Square Test of Independence

For the past two decades student success measures such as student persistence, retention, and graduation rates have been a point of emphasis in higher education. These measures are often directly related to funding formulas for state public colleges and universities. Therefore, analyses of these data have become more critical to evaluating student success initiatives for faculty and administration at many institutions. However, while these data are often widely available there is very little higher education research on how they should be analyzed to assess student success initiatives, program evaluations, or teaching effectiveness at the institutional level.As student success outcome variables are categorical in nature, linear analyses of these data may prove rather difficult as a dependent variable without a significant amount of transformation. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide practitioners with a simple, yet powerful option for analyzing student success outcome variables utilizing the Chi-square test of independence. A case study approach was taken to illustrate how Chi-square can be used to specifically analyze the association between an experiential learning high impact practice and graduation rates among undergraduate students. This case was based on a results and interpretation perspective, rather than step-by-step instruction on how to perform the analysis itself.

Subsidy from State Public Universities and Solidarity Support in Mexico from 2012 to 2021

The present research is a documentary study that analyzes the trend in annual subsidies granted to the Mexican higher education system in the period from 2012 to 2021, generating an overview of the government’s budget to higher education institutions and its current impact on the system by considering national public spending at both the federal, state and private levels. In addition, it establishes the budget granted in these years to different types of institutions such as State Public Universities (UPES), State Public Universities and Solidarity Support (UPEAS), as well as Technological Universities (UT) and Polytechnic Universities (UP). The institutions have been affected over the years, since the budget granted has not represented an increase in management for the operation of the investment of the universities, as a result, various support programs have had to be sought to cover their recurrent costs which are not sufficient for their teaching operations, research, extension of culture and institutional services and on certain occasions had to resort to intervention with own resources. In conclusion, in 2012 a total of $ 193,145,10 million current pesos was awarded, However, in 2021 there were only $270,487.30 million pesos corresponding to the support granted nationally to all higher education institutions as a whole, which implies greater expenses for universities throughout the states.

Inclusion policies in the state universities on the state of Paraná: UNIOESTE in focus

The presente article aims to investigate educational policies, programs ans institutional practices, related to the inclusion of disabled people in State Public Universities in the State of Paraná, more specifically, at Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE). Based on a qualitative approach, with bibliographic and documentary research regarding educational policies related to inclusion in Higher Education. Regarding to presentation and data analysis, A systematic search was released in electronic data published on the Universities’ websites, with emphasis on the following aspects: existence of a center or program of care for disabled people, and accessibility to relevant information about them. It is concluded that the seven State Universities of Paraná have specialized programs for disabled students. UNIOESTE has the Institutional Program of Actions Related to People with Special Needs (PEE), a program that has been consolidated for 26 years and that it releases several actions that involve assistance for disabled students, such as a teacher of specialized educational services and/or a professional translator and interpreter of Libras; publication of research on inclusion and special education; participation of the external community; Events; teacher training activities. Although there is legal support that guarantees the elimination of barriers to the admission of people with disabilities in the State Universities of Paraná addressed, the need for support to ensure the permanence of these students in Higher Education is still remarkable.

Workplace Conflict and Employees' Performance in Public Universities in Anambra State

The continuous strike activity and the apparent discord between lecturers and other unions within the university system made it necessary for this study's main objective to investigate the connection between workplace conflict and employee performance at Anambra State's public universities. 3492 academic employees from the public universities that were chosen for the study made up the population, and the Krejcie and Morgan formula was used to determine the sample size, which came out to be 344. The data was collected using a standardized questionnaire that underwent reliability and validity testing. Simple regression analysis was used to examine the data, and tests of the hypotheses were done at the 5% significance level. The results showed that workplace conflict has a statistically significant and positive relationship with employees' performance in public universities in Anambra State, Nigeria, with (R =.989, R-Square =.978, F statistics = 13017.646, P-value.000 <.05). 98% of the variations in employees' performance are explained by workplace (interpersonal) conflict. Therefore, among others, it was recommended that the management of the universities need to go extra mile to find out lecturers that are having interpersonal issues in other to wade in and settle it and not just allowing the people involved to handle the issues themselves and there is need for a strong conflict resolution committee in various departments.

Permanence policies of a public university during the 2020-2021 coronavírus pandemic: numbers and confrontations

This is research that aims to outline the permanence policies that a public state university in Paraná offered to students during the new coronavirus pandemic, called Covid-19. We sought to carry out a numerical survey of the impacts of these policies on the retention and dropout of students on the campus where the research took place. To this end, studies were carried out related to documents published and edited by the institution during the year 2020, which highlight the numerical data on evasion, retention and admissions in the years 2020 and 2021, years in which Emergency Remote Education (ERE) was deployed. In relation to numerical surveys, a database was developed listing all students who dropped out and those who remained at the institution during these pandemic years. The aim was to identify the possibilities to carry out tactical actions that contribute to the retention of academics in this historical moment and contribute to reducing dropout rates on the University campus.

A PRESENÇA DE MEMES EM PROVAS DE CIÊNCIAS DA NATUREZA

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to investigate how the multimodal meme genre has been mobilized in tests in the area of Natural Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, and Biology), using as material for analysis the traditional and serial entrance exams of state and federal public universities applied in the recent years (from 2001 to 2021), using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. This is a qualitative-quantitative, documentary-type research, perfomed through data collection and analysis. The results show that only five memes were present in the tests analyzed and that three of the identified memes presented the dimension of effective/factual knowledge, while the other two, in turn, expressed conceptual knowledge. The dimensions of the perceived cognitive processes concern the first three levels: remember (level 1), understand (level 2), and, finally, apply (level 3) through problematization, in a humorous way. Regarding the content covered in the memes, four are from Chemistry (acids and bases; general characteristics of the liquid state; periodic properties; covalent bonds), and one is from Biology (cytology: cytoplasmic organelles). We did not find any memes focused on the area of Physics. The study also revealed an initial number of memes in the entrance exams of the universities analyzed, thus pointing to the need for a more comprehensive promotion and investigation of this digital culture artifact.

The Management in the Technological Institutes in Mexico: A Historical Analysis

Answers from a set of questions about institutional management are analyzed, they were part of The Reconfiguration of the Academic Profession in Mexico survey, taken in 2007-2008. The study compares the perspective of technological public institutions professors and public state universities, relative to the communication, collegiality and administrative practices. The results show that the academicians of the first institutions perceived, with regard to the academicians of the seconds, the most complicated administrative processes, minor communication and a deficient participation on decisions making are discussed in the light of the federal policies and organizations concepts.

Financial Management Strategies and the Sustainability of Small-Scale Business in River State Public Universities, Nigeria

The study examined financial management strategies and the sustainability of small-scale business in River State public universities, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised sixty-five (65) small-scale business operators that registered with the university management in the study area. A 20-item questionnaire titled “Financial Management Strategies and the Sustainability of Small-Scale Businesses (FMSSSSB)” tool was utilized for data collection. Fifteen (15) small-business owners from the University of Calabar were used to test the internal consistency that produced an overall reliability coefficient of 0.79. The study issues were addressed employing the mean (X) and standard deviations (SD), bar graph, line graph and an independent t-test was employed to assess the null hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. Results show that records management techniques and inventory management control influence the Sustainability of Small-Scale Businesses in River State public universities. It was determined that records are crucial to the management of small businesses' sustainability and that they must be treated carefully throughout their creation, maintenance, and disposal. As records are the cornerstone and foundation upon which modern business exists, it was also advised, amid other things, that owners of small businesses try to get involved in the records management process.
 
 Received: 18 August 2023 / Accepted: 21 October 2023 / Published: 5 November 2023

Pandemic politics: Exploring the intersection of state political affiliation and public universities' COVID-19 policies and messaging.

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread within the United States, the challenge of responding to a large-scale health crisis was compounded as the federal government struggled to deliver a unified response. Decision-making powers for pandemic protocols were passed to individual states, whose responses were heavily influenced by their administrations' partisan political leanings. This study explores differences in the transparency of COVID-19 information on university websites and the restrictiveness of the measures they implemented by examining university messaging in all-Republican and all-Democrat controlled states. This study employs a quantitative content analysis of a census of websites (N = 265) from public universities located in states with government trifectas. The data reveal that masking, vaccination, and testing measures were significantly more restrictive among universities located in Democratic trifectas than in Republican trifectas. Additionally, universities in Democratic trifectas communicated more transparently, such that they were more likely to have a direct link to COVID-19 information on their homepages. The results indicate that universities in states where a single political party holds power implemented COVID-19 protocols that reflected the political -viewpoints on the health and economic responses to the pandemic. This finding offers important evidence that both governments and public universities based their public health decisions on political factors.

Mathematics Education Amidst the Pandemic: The Experiences of Freshmen University Students Challenged at the Margin

This phenomenography describes and analyses the experiences of geographically challenged students in learning mathematics during the pandemic. The sample includes six geographically challenged first-year Bachelor of Secondary Education University students in a public State University in the Philippines. Data is collected using a semi-structured interview guide. Data was analysed using phenomenographic data analysis. Results show that the experiences of these geographically challenged students fall within three qualitatively different categories of description. These are new modalities and new mathematics learning experiences, mathematics difficulty vis-a-vis teaching styles and struggling, coping, and persisting. Challenges like personal, financial, technological, instructional, socio-economic, and geographic location persist as they pursue education in the new normal. These students attribute course difficulty in mathematics to pedagogical aspects, teaching approaches of instructors, personally challenging situations, and the inability to blend with the trend. Hence, school administrators may strengthen the quality of mathematics instruction in the university by considering the voices of the marginalised and not just offering a one-size-fits-all policy to make the mathematics curriculum flexible, inclusive, and equitable. This will address the demands and needs of the learners, especially the geographically challenged ones.

Student Religiusity: Lecturers’ Experience in State Islamic University Versus State Public University

Student Religiusity: Lecturers’ Experience in State Islamic University Versus State Public University

Using an Exposure Call Center to Help Mitigate Outbreaks, Such as COVID-19, on a University Campus.

Rapid identification and management of close contacts is an important component of an effective university mitigation strategy for highly contagious infectious diseases such as measles and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Institutions of higher education must plan for an associated large influx of calls that can overwhelm standard student health and local public health operations. In fall 2020, a large state public university's Department of Student Health and Wellness created a dedicated exposure call center (ECC), in close collaboration with the local public health department, to quickly assess students who learned of a COVID-19 exposure outside of the formal contact tracing process. The ECC operated 7 days a week and fielded 3361 calls: 3187 from students and 174 from staff, faculty, and parents. The ECC provided rapid assessment and guidance for students with COVID-19 exposure, allowing for prompt quarantine and medical assessment when warranted. Call centers can increase the bandwidth of university health centers and also reduce the burden on health care providers and other public health resources during periods of crisis or high demand.

Competencias de información y alfabetización digital en una licenciatura virtual

The article explores the perception of undergraduatestudents at a public state university in Mexico, regarding their experience after completing the Multimodal Transversal Learning Unit Information and Digital Literacy. The research explores two aspects: self-perception of students regarding their level of achievement in specific digital competencies and main learning outcomes after completing the course. It also reports their assessment in five aspects: syllabus, educational resources, learning activities, coverage of the cross-cutting themes throughout the course, as well as operation of the Learning Management System and technical support. The research was quantitative, through a survey applied to 16 students in the first group that completed the curricular unit. Among the results, the following are reported: perceived levels of achievement in different competency indicators, best valued competencies, and overall assessment of the course by the students. The highest levels of achievement reported are in indicators associated with the students’ daily practices interests. The lowest levels of achievement are in the areas of algorithmic understanding and the generation of original contributions and digital content.

Impact of Green Human Resource Management Adoption on Business Educator’s Job Motivation in Nigerian Universities

The study examines the impact of employing green human resource management on business educators' motivation for their jobs in Delta State's public universities. The study's major goal was to determine how the adoption of green human resource management affects business educators' job motivation in public universities in Delta State. The study was directed by two research questions, and two hypotheses were developed and tested at the 0.05 level of significance. The research design for the study was correlational survey. 58 lecturers in business education at public universities in Delta State made up the study's population. The complete population was used, hence there was no selection or sampling method. A structured questionnaire with questions based on the research questions was the instrument for collecting the data. While Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was employed for the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance, the Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the study questions. The findings were summarized, and it was shown that there is a substantial positive association between business educators working in public institutions who are motivated by their jobs and green human resource management of training and remuneration. Based on the results, it was determined that green human resource management, namely in terms of training and remuneration, are significant predictors of employment motivation for business educators in public institutions in Delta state. The statistical implication of this is that business educators working at public universities will be more motivated to do their jobs if there is an increase in green human resource management in terms of training and compensation. In light of the findings, measures are suggested, including the need for Government at all levels to work together to guarantee that business instructors in Nigerian universities receive regular training since this will increase their job satisfaction and involvement in the institutions.

Student Religious Literacy: A Study of Student Religious Book Preferences State Universities in Indonesia

This study aims to describe and analyze: (1) preference for reading religious books; (2) religious literacy, factors that influence the preference for reading religious books, and (3) formulate recommendations for the development of religious books in State Public Universities. This research used the survey method and literature review. The population is students of State Public Universities in Java, who are Muslims, including: DKI Jakarta, Banten, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta Special Region, and East Java. Each province has two State Public Universities, except for Banten, with a sample of 560 respondents, with a distribution of 53-60 respondents. Data collection techniques using literature review. The results of the study: First, the preference for reading religious books is at a „medium“ level, due to a number of factors including: (1) time-consuming college assignments, (2) low motivation due to perceptions of religious issues as „personal rights“, (3) an Islamic Religious Education environment that is less „motivating“, „reinforcing“, (4) the availability of religious books is not suitable for students' needs, and (5) the academic climate is less conducive which limits freedom, the breadth of reading religious books. Second, religious literacy, the micro dimension, is in a moderate position, namely the preference for reading religious books „sufficiently“has a significant effect on the development of students' abilities. Research contributions: (1) provide a factual map of preference for religious/religious books in the millennial generation at public universities in the 2018-2022 range. (2) drafting policy, providing religious books for public higher education.

Student Experiences Reporting Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct to the Title IX Office at a Public State University.

Twenty-five survivors completed anonymous surveys about reporting sexual and gender-based misconduct to their public university's Title IX office, including case characteristics, perceptions of the reporting and response process (e.g., helpfulness, respect), and experiences of institutional betrayal and support. Measures and open-ended responses described varied misconduct incidents, reporting behaviors, case outcomes, process issues, and negative process consequences. Additionally, process perceptions correlated with institutional betrayal and support. Findings illuminate how survivors' Title IX process perceptions relate to experiencing harm or support from larger institutions, and offer insights into developing a Title IX process which maintains student rights and dignity regardless of outcome.

Data Mining Techniques and Mathematical Models for the Optimal Problem at a State Public University

Data Mining Techniques and Mathematical Models for the Optimal Problem at a State Public University