Examined how to make Harlaxton, British manor house donated to University of Evansville to internationalize college's program, source rather than user of university funds. Reviewed scholarly literature and government publications on international college recruiting systems; surveyed college counselors currently stationed at U.S. high schools in…

Notes difficulty for career services staff to pursue professional development activities with little extra time and no extra budget. Explains importance of cost-effective professional development programs from career development and placement center staff and describes strategies used at University of Cincinnati to provide such programs.…

Reviews some contraceptive education programs designed for adolescents that differ in educational process based on delivery setting. Reviews school-based, community-based, and college/university-based programs and discusses them in terms of their effectiveness, potential, and limitations. Notes that educational accountability in each setting…

Explores literature across several specific disciplines in effort to delineate contributions campus leisure makes toward fulfilling mission of higher education. Concludes that campus leisure services and academia are not poles apart, since both are working toward enrichment of life for individuals. (NB)

Describes the Workforce Education and Lifelong Learning (WELL) program at the Ohio State University, ranked as the number one school for vocational-technical education by U.S. News & World report for the last three years. Includes a list of the top schools in the field. (JOW)

Niche programs are defined as specialized training for unusual occupations such as stone carving and blackjack dealing. Describes college-career and technical-education niche programs. (JOW)

A student satisfaction survey in a British college used input from the student charter and delivered questionnaires on paper at one campus (289 responses) and through an intranet at another (71 responses). Issues identified were embedded in the college's quality framework. (SK)

Describes how Temple University ended Virtual Temple, its for-profit distance education effort, saying that such companies cannot make money. However, universities with similar programs--such as Columbia, Cornell, New York University, and the University of Maryland--disagree. (EV)

Explores: (1) What are recent trends in the regionalization of higher education (RHE)? (2) What are preconditions for effective RHE? (3) What is envisioned for RHE in the Southern African Development Community's Education and Training Protocol? (3) What are strengths and weaknesses of this protocol? and (4) What guidelines can be set for southern…

Explores how college programs for prisoners have won new support as research shows that they reduce the rates of recidivism. Includes descriptions of several such programs. (EV)

This article describes how The Language Center at the Espirito Santo Federal University changed from using traditional pencil-andpaper tests to performance testing, based on authentic tasks. The change was prompted because people thought that their testing did not reflect a communicative approach to language teaching. The Assessment Project lasted…

Personal financial planning is considered one of the major growth professions of the coming decade. Besides providing an opportunity for employment, a major in personal financial planning can open the door to a rewarding and challenging career. Career opportunities in the personal financial planning field include opening a private practice or…

Online education has come of age, and along with the advent of online education, there have been numerous calls for improvement in administrator preparation programs. As a result, many administrative preparation programs have revised and reshaped their programs to address this concern. In this regard, this paper will discuss one component of the…

Highly qualified teachers are necessary to establish strong schools of instructional richness in which the student has the greatest opportunity to be academically successful. The responsibility of a teacher is much greater than just teaching academic content in a subject discipline. Schools are complex institutions which require teaching staff to…

This article outlines a methodology for characterising features of programme-level assessment environments so that the relationship between features of the assessment environment and students' learning response can be studied. The methodology was developed through the detailed case study of nine undergraduate degree programmes: one in each of…