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Peer reviewedDuguid, Stephen – Journal of Correctional Education, 1997
Discusses the 1993 termination of postsecondary education programs in Canadian prisons. Contrasts this with a follow-up study of 654 released offenders, showing the effects higher education had on their successful post-prison lives. (SK)
Descriptors: College Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGumport, Patricia J. – Journal of Higher Education, 1993
A discussion of college and university retrenchment based on interviews with 40 faculty and 20 administrators at 2 research universities looks at programs threatened with termination as terrains contested among academic fields, where wide divergences in professional/discipline-based power become evident. Results appeared to have less to do with…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Download full textParish, Ralph; Arends, Richard I. – 1982
The results of a study of five midwestern school districts suggest that the abandonment of program innovations or revisions may be related to a lack of understanding of how schools work as social systems and how political processes influence change efforts, as well as a failure to appreciate the many dilemmas facing those who attempt to facilitate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
