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Download full textOttinger, Cecilia – Research Briefs, 1991
This research brief reviews and analyzes national data on college going, persistence, and graduation. It compares characteristics of students who enter college immediately after high school graduation with other types of postsecondary entrants, considers traditional versus nontraditional paths of college going, and examines college persisters and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Persistence, Attendance, College Graduates
Smith, Barbara Leigh, Ed. – Current Issues in Higher Education, 1983
The writing across the curriculum movement is discussed in six articles. Barbara Leigh Smith's introductory article, "Writing Across the Curriculum: What's at Stake?" reviews the rationale for this movement, including the declining emphasis on writing in high schools and colleges. In the "Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, College Instruction, College Programs
Mohrman, Kathryn, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This bulletin on undergraduate public policy programs includes an article on public policy studies as liberal education by Joel L. Fleishman, and descriptions of the following college programs: public policy analysis at the University of North Carolina, public service studies program at Oberlin College, urban and metropolitan studies major at…
Descriptors: Bulletins, College Programs, General Education, Graduate Study
Spencer, Donald S. – CGS Communicator, 1986
Past and current features of the master's degree and planning implications are considered. After outlining the traditional master's degree, five recent trends are addressed: specialization, professionalization, application, decentralization, and depersonalization. The number of special master's degree programs has grown, and many programs lead to…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Programs, Decentralization, Distance Education
Swedish Inst., Stockholm. – 1992
This paper describes Swedish higher education, its place in the overall education system, enrollments, standards, graduate education, teachers, and organization. A brief history of the system focuses on reforms since the 1950s that have dramatically changed all of education in Sweden. Data on enrollment show that 35 percent of young people attend…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Faculty, College Programs, Enrollment
2000
This packet contains three papers from a symposium on evaluating university human resource development (HRD) programs. The first paper, "Where Have All the Young Ones Gone? An Analysis of the Graduates of an Human Resource Development Program" (Douglas H. Smith, Jo D. Gallagher), reports the results of a survey of graduates between 1998…
Descriptors: Adults, Allied Health Occupations Education, Business Administration, College Programs
Straight, H. Stephen, Ed. – 1994
The papers in this special issue provide both a general overview and detailed discussion of specific examples of the languages across the curriculum (LAC) movement that is currently gaining momentum in colleges and universities in the United States. Papers include: (1) "International Students as Resource Specialists: Binghamton's Languages…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Attitudes, Educational Strategies, Foreign Students
