The advent of the women's liberation movement in the past few years has prompted a curricular innovation at colleges and universities known as women's courses. As defined in this paper, women's courses explore the nature of women through historical, literary, biological and psychological means. The cause of the emergence of women's courses is the…

"Interdisciplinarity," the integration of concepts and methods between disciplines in teaching and research, may provide an important key to the innovations required in universities to meet the intellectual and social demands of the present time. This report is based on a seminar held in September 1970 and reports the subsequent reflections of a…

This document is the first annual report of the Center for the Teaching Professions at Northwestern University. The specific objectives of the Center that were proposed to the sponsoring agency, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, are: (1) to improve the teaching of prospective teachers and present members of the faculty in a variety of fields at…

The activities of International Education Year enable us to assess the recent spectacular expansion of world education, and the results are scarcely encouraging. There is a growing rift in the industrial nations between educational systems and societies, which is breaking down the school's monopoly as a source of knowledge. If the developing…

In 1969 the 55th Legislative Assembly established the Oregon Program of Grants for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction. The Legislature directed that the program be administered by the Oregon Educational Coordinating Council and provided for an Advisory Committee to guide the Council. All public higher education institutions were eligible…

Generally, today's curriculum trends in the health professions are to allow for increased enrollment of students, to permit greater curriculum flexibility, to arrange earlier introduction of students to patients, to shorten program time, to attract minority students, to encourage more community learning experiences, to permit more independent…

The general emphasis of Project LONGSTEP was on the identification of changes in student achievement that occur as a result of exposure to intensive educational innovation. This booklet provides a brief overview of the project. A total of five project reports plus two separate appendices of supporting data were produced by Project LONGSTEP. This…

An attempt has been made to categorize phenomena observed as 20 teacher training institutions have adopted innovations and to extrapolate from these findings key concepts and principles that could form the basis for developing empirically testable hypotheses and could be of some immediate utility to those involved in innovation adoption. The…

A key assignment for a person with a specialty in local educational improvement is that of providing a school district with leadership in choosing a program that will meet needs for improvement in some area of concern. This unit presents a problem-solving model as one way of identifying problems and their causes, surveying a range of potential…

Variables pertaining to school innovation are examined. The variables pertain to the role and status characteristics of principals and teachers, level of outside financial and moral support for change, and aspects of the community context and of the schools. (Author/DE)

Data from 115 colleges and universities are used to analyze the organizational conditions associated with the institutionalization of new academic programs. (Author)

In an interview with J. Garvin, the State Director of Special Educational and Pupil Personnel Services in Vermont, and R. Sherr, Director of Special Education Services at the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit in Pennsylvania, the development, scope, and problems of special education services for the severely and profoundly handicapped are…

A history and review of the book: "Open Learning: Systems and Problems in Post Secondary Education." (JY)

An electrical engineer and phoneticist has taught himself to read voiceprints, spectrograms that display a plot of the sound frequency of speech against time. This technique may prove useful in training the deaf to read voiceprints or to mimic natural speech. (BB)