We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2014, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 4 to 6 of April. Psychology, in our time, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral…

Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2013 was: The Science of Learning. The Conference featured a keynote address by Victor Benassi, Ph.D.…

Issues related to the international flow of scientific and technical talent are discussed in these proceedings. The symposium was organized into three panels covering the topics of data, policies, and issues as they relate to the utilization of foreign talent. The panel on data provided information on the number of foreign students in United…

This volume includes materials that clearly indicate the state of the development of the field of higher education. The members of the Association of Professors of Higher Education gathered in their third formal national conference to read and discuss the materials included here. The ideas and information presented in this edited, and relatively…

This document reports on a workshop held in Arlington, Virginia, in 1998. The purpose of the forum was to share knowledge for strengthening graduate education in science and engineering, and learning from one another with the participation of faculty, administrators, staff, students, funding agents, leaders in business and industry, and…

Three principal concerns underlie the Harvard Graduate School of Education philosophy: participation in debate about what the role of education in society ought to be, engagement in research to inform and improve educational practices, and increased efforts to understand and improve schools. These approaches resolve current reactionary trends in…

The 15 articles in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the 2009 ATLAANZ (Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand) conference. The first three chapters focus on collaborative work. In Chapter 1, Ann Pocock shares her experiences of working with other university support services. In Chapter 2, Berni Cooper and…

Proceedings of the inaugural ceremonies of the University of San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies are presented. These include the inaugural introduction by David Pierpont Gardner, opening remarks by Frank Stanton, the keynote address by California Governor George Deukmejian, further remarks by David Pierpont…

Papers presented at a conference on major inservice issues are reprinted along with summaries of discussions following the presentations. A decription is given by C.B. Garrison of the Arkansas Program for Effective Teaching, which exemplifies an inservice program wherein all districts in one state are using one highly structured, research-based…

This report contains: an address by Kenneth E. Young, "Evaluating Educational Quality: the Central but Changed Role of Accreditation;" and summaries of the concurrent sessions on nontraditional baccalaureate degree-awarding institutions and programs; nontraditional graduate degree-awarding institutions and programs; and a report on the general…

This document is a record of proceedings of the First World Congress of Comparative Education Societies which met in August 1970 to discuss three questions: (1) the administrative and juridical aspects of creating a Council and a continuing Congress; (2) the place of comparative and international education in the education of teachers; and (3) the…

This proceedings contains papers from the 1999 annual conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research. The papers are: (1) "A Marketing Research Program for Commuter Colleges" (Michelle S. Appel and Craig A. Clagett); (2) "Where Do I Start? Determining Institutional Information Needs beyond Mandated Reporting" (Michelle S.…

Reports on the Senior English Educators Conference, called in response to widespread feelings that English education needs to be reexamined in relation to current developments in education and society. Focuses on graduate studies and research, teacher education, and the nature of English as an academic discipline. (RS)

This publication reports on a gathering of 42 postgraduate foreign students from 27 nations studying at institutions of higher education in Britain to discuss the foreign student experience. Three main issues dominated the conference: (1) the relationship of overseas students to the British people; (2) students' life and work at the university;…

Proceedings from a symposium that shared information on the University of Utah's field-oriented doctoral educational administration program are presented in this paper. The sequential preparation program is based on the following multiple perspectives: a theory-practice relationship; field assignments conducted at multiple organizational levels;…