When a campus welcomes hundreds--and more likely thousands--of new students to campus each year, it is easy for those on the front lines to lose sight of how radical and novel this change is for our students. Many students experience significant transitions before college as they navigate identity formation and grapple with unforeseen disruptions…

Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…

This article describes the middle grades teacher preparation program at Augusta State University in Georgia. It describes the negotiation between the middle school concept and the standardized testing culture of the local schools as the faculty redesigned the undergraduate middle grades program to adequately address both. Ways in which new…

Identifies environmental and economic concerns related to Georgia's coastal areas, describes the content and methodology sections of a K-12 social science and science program about coastal Georgia, and provides a sample activity on population in the coastal areas for the middle school. (DC)

The College of Education at the University of Georgia attempted during 1975-76 to infuse a career education emphasis into existing teacher preparation programs. First, an interdisciplinary team produced a transportable model package to use in staff development for teacher educators. Included in this multi-media package are (1) an instructor's…