Describes a media studies program that allows undergraduates to develop a speciality (such as broadcast sales) within a liberal arts program and communications core curriculum. (PD)

Five issues that emerge in most evaluation processes and that have direct consequences for use of results are identified: the dilemma of multiple purposes, the value of criteria, overscheduling, the linkage between evaluation and decision-making, and evaluating process effectiveness. (Author/MLW)

A course in the Literature of Incarceration is useful in furthering a student's examination of the prison as a complex social structure and can be developed to appeal to a campus as well as to a prison college population. (Author)

Describes the development and growth of an undergraduate degree program in speech communication that combines courses from different disciplines. (PD)

Discusses the history, functions, and services of community colleges and how the speech communication program and faculty can serve as a critical link between college and community. (PD)

This is an era when the explosion of technology makes society increasingly dependent upon the quality of the engineers it produces. In response, engineering education was evaluated during a 2-day workshop to insure its adequacy to meet the demands of the 21st century. This report is intended to act as a guide for engineering colleges and their…

This report contains information on the following open universities in India: (1) Indira Gandhi National Open University; (2) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University; (3) Kota Open University; (4) Nalanda Open University; (5) Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University; (6) Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University; (7) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open…

Districts are expected to replace upwards of 60 percent of all principals over the next 5 years. It is crucial to provide high-quality preparation programs for the new cohort of principals who will lead schools through the next 15-20 years. This paper describes a variety of such programs. They exhibit features such as clear focus and purpose,…

Examines some of the problems related to the process in counselor education and suggests changes in one of the basic assumptions of most training programs. (Author)

The author discusses the results of a seminar for middle-aged women who intend to return to college. The focus is on problems of readjustment. (RWP)

Discusses joint efforts by the Junior College Journalism Association and the Association for Education in Journalism in setting program standards and transfer policy guidelines between two-year and four-year colleges. (RB)

Article written in Thai. (RL)

The article is about the University of Saskatchewan American Indian Arts program. Indian artists were sent to Indian schools throughout the Province to make children aware, through Native art, of the richness of their past. (FF)