Colleges and universities can work for environmental protection in a variety of ways, through conscious consumer choices, communication of environmental values through educational programs, participation in environmental groups, recycling, scrutiny of food service practices, campus special projects, and working with other campus services to…

Because of the increasing Hispanic population, more colleges and universities are offering programs in Chicano studies. Reasons for the slow evolution of such programs include lack of university commitment to ethnic studies, lack of qualified faculty, and racism. However, students have the power to demand the offering of more Chicano studies…

Teaching the research process through service-learning projects increased student interest in research at Bethel College (Minnesota). Examples of eight such research projects in nursing education are discussed, including their impact on community partners and students. Guidelines for academic-community research partnerships cover building…

Federally funded, Haskell Indian Nations University serves American Indian and Alaska Native students from federally recognized tribes and villages. Haskell's American Indian Studies baccalaureate program is an interdisciplinary, culturally relevant program that provides students with practical skills needed by tribes. The need for American Indian…

This article argues that the small school context has been a relatively unexamined or under-examined context for technical and professional communication program development. While graduate program development holds a large share of the field's attention in recent national forums, growth in graduate programs is a consequence of demand in the job…

Many of the actions of Colombia's National Programme for the Development of Foreign Languages (Programa Nacional de Desarrollo de Lenguas Extranjeras--PNDLE) have been carried out in elementary and secondary education, but there is not much information about its impact in institutions of higher education. The aim of this article is to present the…

This study investigates the pragmatic knowledge of Turkish EFL students in using certain request strategies. Data were collected through a type of DCT, open item- verbal response only production questionnaire, as categorized by Kasper (2000) from 40 undergraduate students, studying at the Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate a class-to-class online English-Portuguese "Teletandem" program that was conceived, negotiated, and implemented cross-collaboratively between the foreign language instructors and language resource center (LRC) staff at two large state universities--one in the United States and the other in…

Cultural competence has become a central social work tenet enshrined in the profession's ethical and educational standards. Few measures of cultural competence exist, however, in spite of an increasing array of religious, ethnic, and racial groups in U.S. society. This article develops a new measure to assess cultural competence among one family…

This study investigated whether students differ in reported levels of social support by different types of preorientation experiences (i.e., wilderness program, community service program, preseason athletics, or no preorientation participation) measured by the Campus-Focused Social Provisions Scale (CFSPS). Two colleges provide a sample (N =…

This first issue of a journal on further education (FE) in the United Kingdom focuses on further education for people with physical disabilities and learning difficulties. The first article is titled "A College with a Mission," by Ernest Theodossin, and looks at the FE programs offered by Lancaster & Morecambe College, the various…

Demographic changes and economic need have driven higher education institutions to become more flexible in educational programming and to forge bonds with business and industry. Technological advancements such as satellite communications and computers have helped facilitate these partnerships between education and the business community. In many…

This essay explores higher education governance and resource allocation and makes a case for a new system of governance that goes beyond the traditional belief that all fields of knowledge are always and everywhere equally valuable and the mystique of department-centered governance. In an opening section the essay argues that the decline in the…

The National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education (NCPSE) is a federally funded project that collects and disseminates information on the training and available supply of special education professionals. Pertinent information on the supply, demand, and need of special education teachers in rural areas is difficult to find. This…

This paper presents guidelines for learning-disabled students who are in the process of selecting a college or university. Guidelines include being aware that specially designed programs for the learning disabled are still unusual, that institution size may not be an important factor, that a certification of disability may be required to receive…