Describes an experiment designed to revitalize its undergraduate general education program's basic assumptions, overall structure and potential. (IR)

Grant writing skills can be an important asset to many human service providers. This article presents the rationale and benefits for the inclusion of this course content as well as suggestions for a grant writing assignment, using an actual Request for Proposals. (Author)

Described an MBA program at Babson College, where students participated in a course designed to increase their creative problem-solving abilities, while providing them with realistic experience in several executive operations. (Author/RK)

Article aimed at outlining a model for training humanities teachers. (RK)

The author presents a model which he feels satisfies the demand by special educators for "concrete" and "real-life" studies and, at the same time, is in accordance with the "Guidelines for the Social Studies" as stated by the NCSS Task Force. (Editor)

Described a course whose primary objective would be to give meaning and significance to individual lives by relating them to their collective history, a period from the early part of the twentieth century until the present, in which older people have lived.

Over 100 key resources regarding computer science education at small colleges are collected in this bibliography. A brief review of the collected documents introduces the bibliography, categorizing and relating the materials and noting their emphases. The review concentrates on materials published after 1978, but cites the major works providing…

Describes a continuing education course developed at Florida Atlantic University that teaches students how to apply for grant funding and how to write proposals. Team teaching by a librarian and instructor is explained; goals are discussed; course assignments are described; and an evaluation of the course is presented. (LRW)

This paper examines, briefly, the basis and outline of career education in public schools, presents data showing the extent of college graduate job experimentation and provides a possible classroom approach to career education in colleges. (Author)

California Assembly Bill 1725 repealed the credentials used to determine the subject areas that community college faculty could teach and mandated the development of a list of disciplines. This two-part paper describes policies of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) with respect to assigning courses and proposing changes…

The author presents a rationale for offering comparative study of national legal systems to first-year law students, either as a basis for their legal education or as a single introductory course. (SJL)

To remedy the problems caused when staff members in research libraries are unable to read and understand foreign language materials, the library can institute special foreign language training courses. Ideally, the course should be taught by a librarian with foreign language competence and teaching ability. Basic grammar, library-oriented…

This guide was developed to provide specific, practical advice to teachers who are involved in operating a school store as an adjunct to the marketing/distributive education curriculum. The handbook format integrates school store operations with classroom learning activities and the Michigan Marketing and Distributive Education Core Curriculum.…