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Egan, Kieran – University of Chicago Press, 2011
For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge can't help but be somewhat superficial--and, as Kieran Egan argues, it omits a crucial aspect of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Innovation, Curriculum Design, Educational Principles
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Gardner, Susan K., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2009
This monograph seeks to inform faculty, staff, administrators, and students about the nature of and structure in doctoral programs that lead to doctoral student development. It is accomplished through succeeding chapters, focusing first on an overview of existing student development theory and then on the structure of doctoral education and its…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Student Experience, Student Development
National Collegiate Athletic Association, Indianapolis, IN. – 1999
This brochure describes the Challenging Athletes Minds for Personal Success (CHAMPS)/Life Skills program that was launched by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1994. The program was created to support the student development initiatives of its member institutions and to enhance the quality of the student-athlete experience…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Athletics, College Programs, College Students
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1983
Information on fiscal year 1983-1984 awards made through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education is provided. A list of recipients of new and continuation comprehensive program awards and final year dissemination awards is presented, along with new Mina Shaughnessy Scholars. For each new and continuation recipient, a statement of…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Faculty Development
Morrissey, Ann M. – Campus Activities Programming, 1991
Based on the idea that college student involvement in campus activities enhances student development, the University of Rhode Island has established a research project that gathers information on student cocurricular background and interests and monitors student participation in campus organizations and its correlation to student confidence and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education