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Download full textArum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa; Cho, Esther – Social Science Research Council, 2011
The authors have systematically investigated the state of undergraduate learning in contemporary colleges and universities. Following several thousand traditional-age students as they enrolled in coursework from Fall 2005 to Spring 2009, across a wide range of four-year colleges and universities, the authors found a set of conditions suggesting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Study, Educational Indicators, College Outcomes Assessment
Astin, Alexander W. – AGB Reports, 1989
An institution that exists primarily for its own sake--that identifies itself primarily in terms of its resources and reputation--compromises its capacity as an instrument for improving society. Colleges need to transcend their institutional egos and concern themselves with their impact on students and society. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Environment, College Role, Competition
Hansen, Gary E. – 1990
This paper offers reflections on the role of the agricultural university in developing nations by analyzing in turn the factors that contribute to stagnation of these universities. It first takes up the policy conditions that govern the broad outlines of the agricultural university mandate such as the university's relationship with the ministry of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agricultural Education, College Administration, College Faculty
