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Groff, Warren H. – 1992
Nova University is a nontraditional university that offers practitioner-oriented, field-based doctoral programs, including a program in child and youth studies. This program begins with a seminar called Leadership I, and ends 3 years later with a Leadership II seminar. Instruction takes place in clusters, or groups of professionals in a geographic…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Doctoral Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Groff, Warren H. – 1985
The ultimate goal of graduate education is to design programs of preparation to promote improvement in the quality of education and training services that are provided in a variety of different contexts. In the 1960s, Nova University developed field-based doctoral programs as a strategy to prepare individuals to become agents of change in the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change
Groff, Warren H. – 1979
This three-part report describes the development and operation of Project Care III, an interagency effort involving area colleges, unions, and industry, and state agencies in the retraining of 500 tire builders laid off in August 1978, when the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company (Mansfield, Ohio) was shut down. Part I outlines the historical…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Career Counseling, Community Development
Groff, Warren H.; Cope, Robert G. – 1987
A description is provided of the Snowmass Institutes on "Strategic Planning and Management," a series of week-long workshops designed for college personnel who want to develop a strategic approach to planning and managing their department, division, college/school, institution or system. The basic institute is designed for persons at…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Administration, College Planning, Higher Education
Groff, Warren H. – 1989
An introductory leadership course in an Ed.D. program in Child and Youth Studies, a redesigned early and middle childhood program at Nova University (Florida), is described. The course's purposes are first, to enable professionals to understand the impact of demographic, social, economic, political, and technological transitions on the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Course Content, Course Organization, Doctoral Programs
Groff, Warren H. – 1994
This document describes the Orange County Cluster human resources development (HRD) seminar that was conducted as part of Nova University's nontraditional practitioner-oriented, problem-solving, field-based distance education program in higher education. Discussed first are HRD in the agricultural and business industrial eras and changing HRD…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Groff, Warren H. – 1994
This document describes the Tampa Cluster human resources development (HRD) seminar that was conducted as part of Nova University's distance education program in higher education (PHE). Discussed first are HRD in the agricultural and business industrial eras and changing HRD practices/needs, Nova University's PHE and HRD program, the proceedings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal)
Groff, Warren H. – 1990
The paper describes a new doctoral program (Leadership I) which is a part of the Child and Youth Studies (CYS) Program and the Programs for Higher Education (PHE) within the Center for the Advancement of Education at Florida's Nova University. The course was offered to three student cluster groups between April 1989 and June 1990 and the paper…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs
Groff, Warren H. – 1987
The Programs for Higher Education (PHE) at Nova University (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) developed field-based doctoral programs in higher education, leadership in adult education, and vocational, technical, and occupational education. During the 1980s, PHE critically analyzed the format for the delivery of the specialization seminars for the three…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Delivery Systems, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Change
Groff, Warren H. – 1993
The first part of this document describes Nova University's doctoral program in Vocational, Technical, and Occupational (VTO) Education, developed in response to the need to create high performance learners and leaders for building learning communities. It discusses how a curriculum change in 1990 resulted in the following: conversion of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Hospitality Occupations
Fox, Robert B.; Groff, Warren H. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The relationship between data and their use in a planning, management and evaluation system in a higher education institution is discussed. Elements of the institutional planning process are detailed as well as the budgeting process and a method for relating fiscal resources to institutional goals and objectives. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Budgets, College Administration, College Planning, Computers
Groff, Warren H. – 1993
This document describes the human resources development (HRD) seminar that has been part of Nova University's nontraditional practitioner-oriented, problem-solving, field-based doctoral program in higher education since 1990. Discussed first are HRD in the agricultural and business industrial eras and changing HRD practices/needs in the context of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development