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Neusner, Jacob; Neusner, Noam M. M. – 2000
Universities today must balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship. The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold. The U.S. college and university today must assess what difference scholarship makes to teaching and what teaching means to scholarship. Scholarship should not detract from…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Core Curriculum, General Education, Higher Education
Levine, Arthur – 1980
Stereotypes of the overall character of the college student population are seen to have persisted, inaccurately, for several decades. The dangers of such stereotypes are pointed out and educators are warned against policies and practices based on misconceptions about today's students. Information from national surveys of over 95,000 undergraduates…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Change Strategies, College Curriculum, College Students
Download full textAmerican Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1997
This document is a sample of the report the American College Testing Program (ACT) sends individual high schools. Statistics in this report reflect the characteristics of students from the school who took the ACT Assessment during their sophomore, junior, or senior year and graduated in 1997. Depending on the proportion of students from the school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Knowles, Malcolm S.; Holton, Elwood F., III; Swanson, Richard A. – 1998
This book examines the core principles of adult learning and the roots of andragogy, advances in adult learning, and practice in adult learning. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 17 chapters: importance of learning theory; theories of learning (concept of part and whole models of development, theories based on elemental…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
