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Greene, Elizabeth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000
Reports on controversy surrounding Portland (Oregon) State University's nationally renowned, interdisciplinary general education program. Critics feel the four-year curriculum, which focuses on learning processes rather than content, has resulted in a watered-down curriculum that doesn't teach enough writing, math, literature, science, art, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, General Education
Download full textJohnson, De S.; Deduck, Patricia – 1990
To continue upper division coursework past 15 credit hours, students at Southwest Texas State University must pass the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) General Examination in English Composition with Essay, with a minimum score of 421 and 45 semester hours of credit, and the CLEP General Examination in Mathematics, with a minimum score of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Demonstration Programs, Due Process, Eligibility
Peer reviewedShroyer, Edgar H.; Compton, Mary V. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
This article describes how the Program in Education of Deaf Children at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro added courses in a second major and in liberal arts to expand the general knowledge base of prospective teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. (DB)
Descriptors: College Programs, Deafness, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change
Korcheck, Stephanie A., Ed. – 1987
This document presents brief descriptions of successful approaches that states, local school districts, and individual schools have taken to incorporate and/or expand the teaching of basic competencies. Two presentations made at the Southern Regional Education Board's meeting on "Strengthening the Academic Preparation of Vocational Students"…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change
Denker, Joel – 1982
Exemplary projects by unions and colleges are laying the groundwork for successful workers education. The University Studies/Weekend College program at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) has a classical curriculum in general education that is both lofty and grounded in those areas most engaging to workers. Support of the United Auto Workers and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Demonstration Programs, General Education
Indian Hills Community Coll., Ottumwa, IA. – 1991
A model project at Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, Iowa, provided a degree-bearing second-year course of vocational study to a nontraditional audience seeking high-technology training. The flexible, competency-based program offered three paths of study: a course in personal computing resulting in a diploma or an associate degree, an…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Computer Science, Demonstration Programs
Adelman, Clifford; Reuben, Elaine – 1983
A total of 117 descriptions of notable programs and promising practices related to 30 specific problems, practices, and goals in American postsecondary education are presented. The programs described are the result of three searches made by the staff of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, although neither the staff nor the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Articulation (Education), Career Education, College Freshmen
