The rationale and techniques for developing skimming and scanning skills with college students are discussed, and it is noted that perfecting these skills involves changing some basic attitudes towards reading such as the ideas that one needs to read every word and that increasing speed decreases comprehension. Lengthy passages in regular college…

Glassboro State College, through its supplementary training program, has attempted to demonstrate its commitment to academic relevance, social concern, and individual advancement. The program was originally designed to supplement regular college programing by including an atypical group of students--the poor, employed, experience-oriented adult.…

Ten two-person teams made up the primary target population for the Leadership Training Program (LTP) described in this report. The back home activities of the team members were studied for nearly three years following the LTP. A brief resume of the design and conduct of the LTP is given. Training of the college teams took three weeks and included…

In this essay on higher education for the disadvantaged, the author discusses the definition of "disadvantaged," assessment procedures of disadvantaged students, and the predictive value of aptitude tests. The author concludes that more and better controlled studies are needed, preferably longitudinal, and offering clear information on the extent…

This paper, as the title suggests, presents a discussion of the dangers and possibilities of the external degree. There are 8 major dangers that widespread offering of external degrees might precipitate: (1) the deterioration of standards rather than quality education; (2) a proliferation of degrees that might debase the degree; (3) the use of the…

This document is a report on a series of statewide conferences organized by the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) in 1962-65 to enable representatives of mathematics departments, schools of education, elementary schools and state departments of education to discuss the content and implementation of the 1961 report,…

This 18-item bibliography includes journal articles, yearbook chapters, dissertations, unpublished papers, and ERIC documents dealing with the characteristics or evaluation of college reading/study skills programs. Each item in the alphabetical list is briefly annotated. (AA)

This short, two-page editorial discusses the relationship of formal education to the world of work--unemployment of college graduates, investment in attending college, and special college programs. (ND)

This article discusses the use of selective admissions for a professional physical education program. (RC)

Besides describing a program at Mississippi State University whereby persons having a bachelor's degree in social work are used to deliver social services in rural areas, the article discusses the setting, problems encountered, and major form of services provided. (Authors/KR)

The University of Maryland's bachelor of science program in kinesiological science, studying the mechanisms of human movement (mechanical, physiological, psychological, aesthetic) imparts an understanding of human beings as individuals engaging in physical activities in daily life and in other activities serving as expressions of their physical…

The four areas discussed are: traditional health program expectations; community college health programs; integrating student health services into the mainstream of college activities; and selling the health program. (MM)

Discusses study which sought to determine the nature and extent (specifically, the credit, enrollment, faculty involvement, and support for the institution) of reading improvement programs in the larger senior colleges and universities in the United States. (JM)

Black studies programs might become a more viable and encompassing discipline if these programs were abandoned in favor of an Ethnic Studies Program. (Author/JP)

Used three national surveys (1979, 1982, and 1985) to compare campus alcohol policies, institutional self reports, treatment and referral services, and prevention and educational efforts. Results indicated that a significantly greater variety and quantity of alcohol education and prevention activities are presently available on campuses than were…