Three faculty members of Concordia University in Montreal, who played integral roles in the formation of a highly successful core curriculum as part of their institution, discuss the logistics, the politics, and the philosophy behind the founding and growth of their Liberal Arts College. For Harvey Shulman, the program, which has attracted…

As state budget allocations for higher education decrease, "specialty" programs such as gerontology must continually demonstrate their productivity. State and private universities increasingly rely on student credit hours (SCH) or tuition generated, which is making it difficult for many gerontology programs to expand. The School of Aging Studies…

This publication reports on the 1994-95 activities of the South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment including the status of programs, mission, goals and budget for the next year. The Center was established in 1985 and has become a national model for teacher recruitment. Its most widely known programs are: Minority Recruitment, Crossroads…

Strategies are presented for recruiting family members from minority groups to be involved in the formation of policies and development of programs that affect their lives and those of their young children with disabilities. Organizational strategies, strategies to empower family members, logistical strategies, and process strategies are…

This document begins with a four-page performance report describing how the Camp Verde Adult Reading Program site was relocated to the Community Center Complex, and the Town Council contracted directly with the Friends of the Camp Verde Library to provide for the requirements of the program. The U.S. Department of Education grant allowed the…

This handbook explains the requirements for selecting, developing, evaluating, and placing a student in the Refuges and Wildlife Cooperative Education Program of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Following a brief program description, information is provided on the following topics: the responsibilities of various administrators; the program…

Argues that Afro-American studies has undergone many changes that have taken it from a political movement per se to a recognized developing academic discipline having a respectable body of knowledge and researchable content with the black humanities and social sciences comprising its core curriculum. (Author/JM)

Prepared in response to shifts in the student body make-up and demographic changes in the school district, this report provides an in-depth analysis of environmental conditions faced by Triton College (Illinois) and presents a specific marketing plan developed in response to the identified trends. The first sections of the report focus on trends…

This study reports on the findings of a survey conducted to determine why people join school Cadres and to determine the ways in which these groups recruit, select, and train new members. Fifty-two responses were received from Cadre organizations in Oregon, California, New York, Florida, and Idaho. A profile of the typical Cadre member includes…

This paper provides a description of the development of an honors program at Gulf Coast Community College (GCCC). The description is organized around three flow charts corresponding to different stages in the program's development, and which are followed by more detailed explanations. The first flow chart deals with program planning and…

The advantages and disadvantages of an extended planning period for implementing a Teacher Corps program are examined. A planning period of several months duration, four to six months for example, is deemed beneficial to the outcome of a project, while a longer period may possibly cause a loss of momentum and sense of goal. However, a planning…

TO ESTABLISH A COLLEGE IN 100 DAYS PRESENTED AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEST THE VALUE OF PROGRAMED ORGANIZATIONAL PROCEDURES USING PROGRAM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE (PERT) UNDER ACTUAL OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS, NOT IN A SIMULATED THEORETICAL SITUATION. THROUGH THE AID OF THE PERT PLANNING SYSTEM, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE WERE NINE…

In this introductory work, the main principles on which British companies are basing management development programs are presented, and stages in assuring a supply of effective managerial talent are set forth: stages in assuring a supply of effective managerial t"lent are set forth: program planning based on clear objectives and…

The tenth annual survey of the supply and demand for teachers of vocational agriculture describes the nature and degree of the shortage of teachers in the field in 1974. It also identifies changes and trends since 1965. The data were secured from all institutions preparing vocational agriculture teachers as well as State supervisors in…

In the early summer of 1972 the Institute for Services to Education formed a small task force group to conduct a limited but systematic inquiry into the status of Black Studies programs at a selected number of American institutions of higher education. The major purposes of the study are: (1) the formulation of a workable definition of Black…