This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience. Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in "Living-Learning Communities That Work," as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC…

This guide is for key external stakeholder groups (policymakers, national associations, reform groups, accreditors, foundations, government agencies, business and industry) that support change and reform of the higher education enterprise. It presents a toolkit that provides advice for external stakeholders on how to be effective partners in…

An effective higher education admissions system is key to ensuring the stability of the education sector and commanding public confidence in the ability of universities and colleges to deliver the best outcomes for students. Universities and colleges are autonomous in their admissions processes, but these processes are delivered in line with…

More than a third of all undergraduate students are 25 or older, and their presence on college and university campuses is growing. However, institutions of higher learning are struggling to meet the needs of, and improve persistence and completion rates for, this significant student population. "Increasing Adult Learner Persistence and…

The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) requires that Title IV degree-granting institutions disclose annually the graduation rates of first-time, full-time degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students, disaggregated by gender, each major racial/ethnic subgroup, and receipt or non-receipt of a federal Pell grant or subsidized…

Shares demographics that pertain to women and minorities at five national CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) tournaments from 1991 to 1995; examines barriers that prevent diversity and representativeness; describes actions taken; and proposes solutions for the future. (PA)

States that socially-oriented scholars think that context-specific writing skills that address the text's social milieu should be taught, whereas cognitively-inclined scholars think that models that can be adapted to a variety of writing contexts should be taught. Argues that synthesis is necessary to teach students to write in a variety of…

Focuses on the creation of an undergraduate recruiting funnel directed at traditional-age students. Most colleges have recruiting funnels, a series of contacts that move a prospective student from initial contact through the campus visit to matriculation. Discusses goals and strategies to include in the design of successful recruiting funnels.…

To prepare student stage managers for the world of theater outside the university, faculty directors should endow them with full authority. Using the Actors Equity Association rules book as a guide, faculty directors should make stage managers aware of their duties and then leave them to perform them without close supervision. Unfortunately, in…

This book provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help teachers and administrators make learning more student-centered, effective, and productive. The 31 models describes a range of approaches and applications in a variety of settings and disciplines. The chapters are: (1) "Establishing a Common…

Describes program model for independent study courses for students of German at Cleveland State University, emphasizing how to keep students motivated without regularly scheduled class and how to reduce the amount of time required to administer the program. Believes courses cannot replace regular courses but can help in situations where enrollment…

Focuses on what has the potential to get lost - for both faculty members and students - in working in an environment that does not see undergraduate education as its first priority. Explores in more depth the challenges and pleasures of working in a college whose primary focus is the teaching of undergraduates. Describes four classroom examples of…

A college educator (trained in composition) encountered some problems when he began teaching an introductory literature course. In the first year of the course, he used a fiction anthology as his textbook. The class examined one story at a time, and attempts to compare readings seemed forced. The teacher realized that anthologies are narrow in…

Describes experiment using the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI method) for teaching French literature at the undergraduate level. Presents method, grading procedures, and sample unit. (BK)

Presents an argument in favor of using de Tocqueville as a point of departure for French conversation classes for advanced undergraduate students. Gives samples of questions prompted by readings of de Tocqueville. (BK)