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Menges, Robert J., Ed.; Weimer, Maryellen, Ed. – 1996
This collection of 15 essays is designed to help improve college instruction through reflection that results in better practice, to make teaching more student-centered, and to further a more connected view of teaching and learning. It includes: (1) "Why Scholarship Is the Bedrock of Good Teaching" (Maryellen Weimer); (2) "Teaching and Today's…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Cooperation, Cultural Pluralism
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1996
This publication provides individual descriptions of grants allocated by the state of Illinois for aid to higher education for fiscal year 1997 under the provisions of the State Higher Education Cooperation Act. The Act provides funds for interinstitutional grants, minority educational achievement grants, minority articulation program grants,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Consortia, Economic Development
Kimmerly, Lynn, Ed. – Early Childhood Update, 1995
This newsletter provides a periodic update on the activities of the Early Childhood Research Working Group (ECRWG), organized in early 1995 by the U.S. Department of Education and other federal government departments and agencies to promote interagency cooperation and public-private partnerships in early childhood research. This edition contains…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Auditory Tests, Child Health, Early Childhood Education
Morsy, Zaghloul, Ed.; Altbach, Philip G. – 1993
This book presents a collection of essays dealing with key issues and trends facing the future of higher education on the international level as the world moves into the 21st century. Essays and their authors are as follows: "The Idea of the University: Changing Roles, Current Crisis and Future Challenges" (Torsten Husen); "Patterns…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Johnson, Elmima, Ed.; Calbert, Roosevelt, Ed. – 1992
The Division of Human Resource Development of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has the responsibility for broadening the participation of minority groups underrepresented in science, engineering and mathematics. This publication highlights a selection of model projects funded by the NSF to accomplish that mandate. The projects are presented…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Institutions, Career Awareness
Johnstone, D. Bruce – 1993
In this booklet the Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY) provides answers to 10 difficult questions concerning issues of costs, accountability, and evaluation in the SUNY system. Questions concern the following issues: (1) the losses incurred in recent years by the State-operated campuses and the community colleges; (2) the issue…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Faculty, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Finance
Khosrowpour, Mehdi, Ed. – 1998
This proceeding of the 1998 Information Resources Management Association International Conference contains 80 full papers, 87 research in progress papers, 33 abstracts, and 15 panel, workshop, and tutorial summaries. The papers focus on issues of managing information technology (IT) in organizations around the world. Issues covered include:…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Developing Nations, Distance Education, Global Approach
Liberton, Cindy, Ed.; Kutash, Krista, Ed.; Friedman, Robert M., Ed. – 1995
This document presents the proceedings of the 8th Annual (1995) Children's Mental Health Conference. Eleven main sections focus on the following topics: (1) evaluation efforts within states and systems of care; (2) financing strategies of systems of care; (3) family participation; (4) school-based services; (5) the child welfare system; (6) the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Delivery Systems
Kavanagh, Robert N.; Pokraka, Edward S. – 1990
This report is intended to serve as a focus for developing a commitment for continuing investment in computer support for education, research, and administration at the University of Saskatchewan. Based on the assumption that effective utilization of computers, computer networks, and other telecommunications technology is essential to the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Educational Administration
Slavin, Robert E. – 1992
It is proposed that schools receiving funds under Chapter 1 (Hawkins Stafford Act 1988) be required to spend at least 20 percent of their allocations on staff development. High-quality staff development programs would enable schools to improve instruction all day for all students. Chapter 1 schools would become centers of educational renewal and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Practices
Chesapeake Inst., Washington, DC. – 1993
These proceedings from a January, 1993, forum on the education of children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) focuses on the activities of five federally funded centers: the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Center on Attention Deficit Disorder; the University of Miami (Florida) Center for Research on Attention Deficit Disorder; the…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Disability Identification, Drug Therapy, Educational Practices
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
This hearing was called as one of a series of hearings to address concerns related to the role of the Federal Government and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in reaching the goal of providing equal educational opportunity to all in the United States. Arguing that significant inequalities in educational opportunities still…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. – 1986
This report outlines the activities of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University, for the year ending June 30, 1986. Progress was made in expanding and enhancing the policy research program, which comprises four divisions. The natural resources and conservation program participated with the Soil Conservation…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Computer Simulation, Conservation Education, Economic Development
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1986
Statistics on Canadian universities are presented in 30 tables in both English and French. The data cover: total population and age group 18-24 by province for 1971, 1976, 1981, and 1985; full-time enrollment rates by educational level; graduation rates for secondary schools, community colleges and universities; unemployment rate by educational…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Graduates, College Libraries, College Students
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1986
In response to a request by the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives, this report analyzes how scientific research is funded at research universities in the United States, with a particular focus on how federal funding for research fits into the total finances of these institutions. Major sections of the…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Research, Federal Aid, Federal Government
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