Faculty and staff at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have developed several tools to assess campus civic engagement initiatives. This chapter describes the IUPUI Faculty Survey and the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale, and reports on findings from campus-based assessment and research.

A university and a large urban district began collaborating in 2003 to intensify and customize the preparation of principals. District leadership viewed the principal as the keystone to improving academic achievement for all students. The university and district reciprocally collaborated on the design and implementation of this principal…

Over the past decade or so there has been increasing concern over the unprecedented wave of retirements of community college leaders, from department chairs all the way to presidents. There are three different venues for developing future leaders in order to offset this deficiency: university-based formal degrees, professional and continuing…

This is one of a series of reports by technical consulting groups that are advisory to the Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education. The primary purpose of these reports is to provide the commission with information relevant to its task of developing plans for the future of Montana postsecondary education. The technical group was required:…

This training manual was written to assist in planning and implementing follow-up studies of secondary special education programs. The model presented is based on a longitudinal study conducted by the Vermont Department of Education and the University of Vermont, which collected information from previous students with and without handicapping…

Results of two studies, conducted in April 1987 and May 1991, of the graduates of the competency-based educational administration program of the Department of Educational Leadership and Administration (DELA) at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University (New York) were compared. The DELA Graduate Questionnaire was mailed to graduates who were…

The development of a graduate survey at Ohio Dominican College is described, and guidelines for implementing a graduate survey are provided. The survey assessed student characteristics, activities during college, endeavors after graduation, and attitudes, goals, and values. Project goals included: developing a graduate survey that could also be…

The Master of Arts programs in Human Development and Education at Saint Mary's College (Minnesota) arose in response to a need felt by many involved in the helping professions for a nontraditional approach to graduate education. The program is designed to develop competence in understanding one's own growth as well as that of others with whom the…

A survey of 262 graduates of a comprehensive university indicate fairly strong support for general education and the associated objectives of such a program. Some differences emerged between alumni of different disciplines, genders, and periods of graduation. Implications for recruitment, public relations, and program planning are considered.…

Research activities undertaken in the past year have focused in the following three areas: a) evaluation of graduates from the program; b) program development in public schools; c) teacher competency scale development. This article briefly describes them. (Author/JA)

The objectives of this study were (1) to obtain annual records on the first full-time career positions obtained by all agriculture graduates from the 2-year and 4-year Illinois education institutions offering a degree in agriculture, (2) to assemble data in a manner that would show the marketability of graduates from the various professional…

Followup studies of graduates of the Tennessee Technological University have been conducted and reported since 1973. This report presents the findings of the seventh year of the project. The first chapter contains an overview of the total operation and a summary of the major purposes of the project. Chapter two contains a presentation and analysis…

This handbook for administrators, teachers, parents, and students describes a system of strategies that will assist in implementing follow-up studies of former vocational program participants (completers and/or early leavers). Section 1 discusses use of the handbook. Section 2 concerns the rationale for doing follow-up and includes legislation,…

In 1978 a national survey was undertaken of the alumni directors at state colleges and universities with enrollments of at least 5,000 students. The questionnaire was designed to provide information on: (1) patterns of work satisfaction among alumni directors; (2) the status of current issues in the conduct of alumni affairs; (3) changes taking…