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To Educate the People Consortium, Detroit, MI. – 1982
This working paper is an intermediary stage in the development of a new telecurriculum for the To Educate the People Consortium. Section 1 is an introduction to the process. Section 2 contains the outlines of 18 courses in the telecurriculum based on concept papers submitted by teams from the consortium. Each course is in the format of six 1-hour…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Blue Collar Occupations, College Programs
Lindquist, Victor R.; Endicott, Frank S. – 1983
Results of a 1983 survey on policy and practice in the employment of college graduates in 262 well-known business and industrial firms are presented. The number of companies hiring graduates in nine bachelors-level and five masters-level fields are specified for both 1983 and 1984, along with the number of graduates for each field and salary…
Descriptors: Business, Business Administration Education, Career Counseling, College Graduates
Sands, William A.; Abrahams, Norman M. – 1977
Interest scales designed to provide educational and vocational guidance to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy were developed from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. Three of the scales provided an index of similarity between a person's interests and the interests of previous graduates from each of the Academy's three academic areas:…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Engineering, Humanities
Slonecker, William G. – 1981
Many who believe in the value of the study of the humanities are faced with the problems of how to attract vocational students to humanities courses, maintain their interest in such courses so that they fulfill the general education requirements for graduation, and, if possible, generate an ongoing interest in the humanities. In response to these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Objectives, Courses
Download full textAtelsek, Frank J.; Andersen, Charles J. – 1982
The number of undergraduate credit hours taken in the sciences, engineering, and engineering technology, and in four major humanities fields (English, history, modern languages, and philosophy) for the fall semester, 1980-1981 was studied, based on a survey of 65 colleges and universities that are members of the American Council on Education's…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Credits, College Instruction, College Mathematics
Finer, Neal B. – 1981
Designed to be used as part of a comprehensive social studies program on Mexican culture, this two-volume manual, written in Spanish, offers an instructional package on Mexican culture, stressing an art-architecture perspective, which can be used at the secondary, college and adult levels. The teacher's guide, Volume I, includes a discussion of a…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness
Marty, Myron A., Ed. – 1978
Aspects of the community college environment, and the role of the community college are explored from a faculty viewpoint in this collection of essays. Robert A. Whisnant outlines the tasks in preparing for new educational missions. Bette Slutsky questions the direction community colleges are taking toward remedial and vocational responsibilities.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Objectives, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Rao, V. Appa, Ed. – 1977
A brief mid-plan review of the work of the Panels in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of New Delhi, India, is presented. Recommendations of the UGC Standing Committee on the Development of Colleges during the plan period and on the implementation of several new programs as part of the Faculty Improvement…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Planning, Dining Facilities, Educational Development
Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem (Israel). – 1967
ADULT EDUCATION IN ISRAEL IS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE CULTURAL DEPARTMENT, WHICH RECOMMENDS TEACHERS AND LECTURERS AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSPECTION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT. STUDENT FEES ARE COLLECTED LOCALLY. PREVIOUSLY DEVOTED TO JEWISH TOPICS AND HEBREW LANGUAGE, THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE FORMAL SECONDARY EDUCATION, HUMANITIES,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Clubs, Continuing Education Centers
de Wolf, Virginia A. – 1980
Early career experiences of a sample of 233 University of Washington doctorates were studied. Doctorates were initially grouped into seven degree areas (physical science, biological science, social science, humanities, education, engineering, and other). As hypothesized, significant differences were found between the genders in their distribution…
Descriptors: Biology, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Degrees, Education Majors
Parsons, Michael H., Ed.; Powell, Allan R., Ed. – 1979
Faculty members from Hagerstown Junior College present eight position papers discussing ethical issues in their various disciplines. Ralph Chapin reports on the impact of the recent federal copyright law and how it affects library and media personnel who must deal with and evaluate duplicated written materials, films, and recordings. E. Walter…
Descriptors: Accountability, Business Responsibility, Codes of Ethics, Community Colleges
Fitch, Robert M.; Svengalis, Cordell, M. – 1979
A theoretical framework and suggestions for teaching about the future at the secondary level are presented. Seven chapters comprise the document. Chapter I examines the nature of and approach to futurism and explores ideas of European and American futurists. Chapter II presents a rationale, characteristics of futures education, outlines of courses…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)
PDF pending restorationKlitgaard, Robert E.; And Others – 1979
It was concluded, in an empirical study of distributions of examination scores within secondary schools in Karachi, Pakistan, that intraschool inequalities in student achievement were relatively large; that variables for socioeconomic background and school policy did not explain the intraschool variations across schools; and that a school which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Differences, Equal Education
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1979
The role of Catholicism in American higher education is addressed in this collection of papers. The historical tradition of the Catholic university is discussed as well as the problems they must face. Issues examined include: political and financial concerns of church-related colleges and universities, the role of the university in higher…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Church Role
Mead, Russell – The Independent School Bulletin, 1968
English, which enrolls all students, is the only humanities course capable of transmitting culture to everyone. Students respond to cultural stimuli other than books, however; and since many justifications for traditionally narrow English courses are demonstrably not valid, English subject matter should be broadened to include methods of…
Descriptors: American Culture, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment
