Discusses reasons for the decline in literature enrollments and methods available for stimulating student interest. These include extensive publicity, expanding course offerings to include popular genres and media, offering special studies courses whose focus changes each semester, and the learning contract, where student and instructor develop…

This article aims to stimulate an interchange of ideas on teaching through a discussion of experiential learning as a necessary, but not sufficient, component of the preprofessional student's education and a description of the semester programs of USC's School of Public Administration as a tool for incorporating experimental education into a…

Discusses a plan for helping mid-career professionals plan for management careers. Also describes a coordinated guide on preparing an Individual Development Plan. The guide is an eight-step strategy for individuals to use in collaboration with their supervisors to develop themselves for their present and future job responsibilities. (EM)

The following laws and their effect on vocational education are reviewed: PL (Public Law) 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975); PL 94-482 (Education Amendments of 1976, Title II); and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, sections 503 and 504. What is meant by "free appropriate public education" and "individualized…

Presents eleven basic characteristics of individualized educational programs. Some of these characteristics are as follows: an active student learning process, rate-tailoring, use of a variety of instructional media, competency-based curriculum, and feedback and evaluation on a regular basis. (BM)

The authors explore how Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) makes teachers responsible and accountable for assuring that each handicapped child receive the required special education and related services set forth in the individualized education program. (SBH)

Proposes and describes the Statement of Student Trainee Learning Objectives (SSLO), an alternative (which combines the individual student's behavioral learning objectives and the management by objectives used by business and industry) to the traditional training plan for the on-the-job learning experiences of business/distributive education…

In its annual report, the National Advisory Committee on the Handicapped discusses the idea of an "individualized education program" for each handicapped child and the adjustments it will require of educators. (Editor)

Describes the materials, scheduling, testing, classroom activities, and teaching assistantships in a flexible two-semester program. Student attitudes and attrition are also discussed. (DB)

Tribute is paid to the late Jim Aragorn, developer of the Lincoln Learning Center, a lifetime-learning, community-directed, educational institution offering programs for young children through adults. (JD)

This chapter discusses three emerging national trends that could serve as catalysts for fundamental change in student services programs. First is the concept of the learning organization, which offers a superior model for enhancing the effectiveness of institutions and the people within them. Second is the movement away from standardization and…

Describes "Studies in the Physical Sciences" (SPS), an audiotutorial physical science course designed for non-science elementary school classrooms. The course is completely laboratory-centered with no formally scheduled classes. Students can work at their own speed, choose what they will study from the sixteen units available and design…

The present state of graduate education in geography is described and criticized, and a student oriented program is proposed as an alternative. (JH)