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Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1988
The monograph summarizes ideas expressed by nearly 100 graduate deans from Council of Graduate School member institutions who met in 3 separate groups in 3 separate locations to discuss how they could enhance the presence of minority graduate students and faculty on the nation's college and university campuses. Related issues discussed during the…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Gaffney, Nancy A. – 1991
Papers and panel discussions on a wide range of issues of concern to practitioners in the field of graduate education are presented in this conference report. The publication begins with the program of the meeting and then goes on to report the substance of three plenary and three concurrent sessions. Session titles are as follows: "A…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Cultural Pluralism, Engineering Education, Financial Exigency
McDermott, Mark N., Ed.; Wilson, Jack M., Ed. – 1989
This book contains the proceedings of the Third Topical Conference of Department Chairs in Physics. Topics of the papers summarized include: (1) research centers sponsored by the National Science Foundation; (2) physics programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels; (3) the use of accelerators in education and research; (4) approaches to…
Descriptors: College Science, Computer Uses in Education, Department Heads, Females
Barthel, Sue V., Ed.; Early, Julie A., Ed. – 1985
Issues related to the international flow of scientific and technical talent are discussed in these proceedings. The symposium was organized into three panels covering the topics of data, policies, and issues as they relate to the utilization of foreign talent. The panel on data provided information on the number of foreign students in United…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineers, Foreign Students, Foreign Workers
Mentkowski, Marcia; And Others – 1991
This document presents elements of a symposium developed by the Alverno College, Wisconsin, research and evaluation staff on the extent to which educational research that is internally driven by institutionally defined purposes and questions is valid and useful to the educational research community as a way of addressing its larger questions about…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment, College Students
Connell, Charles W., Ed.; Gardner, Lynn J., Ed. – 1982
Developments and issues in academic advising are addressed in this collection of program abstracts from the 1982 conference of the National Academic Advising Association. Summaries are provided of the general sessions, preconference workshops, conference workshops, focus and special sessions, topical sessions, and paper sessions. In addition to…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Administrative Policy, Adult Students, Change Agents
American Vocational Association, Arlington, VA. Agricultural Education Div. – 1983
These proceedings contain the agenda, discussants' reports, and 30 papers from the 1983 National Agricultural Education Research Meeting. A discussant's report precedes each group of three papers on one theme and critiques the strengths and weaknesses of the research reported. The 10 themes and representative topics of papers are adult education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Educational Research
Bruno, Sam J., Ed.; Pettit, John D., Jr., Ed. – 1985
These conference proceedings contain the following 23 presentations: "Development of a Communication Skill Model Using Interpretive Structural Modeling" (Karen S. Nantz and Linda Gammill); "The Coincidence of Needs: An Inventional Model for Audience Analysis" (Gina Burchard); "A Computer Algorithm for Measuring Readability" (Terry D. Lundgren);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Communication, Business Education
Washington Univ., Seattle. Center for Instructional Development and Research. – 1986
Materials from a spring 1986 teaching assistant (TA) planning meeting held at the University of Washington are presented. The training meeting was sponsored by the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR). Contents include: a list of workshops; a timeline for planning TA orientation activities; information on CIDR print materials,…
Descriptors: Conferences, Consultation Programs, Course Evaluation, Foreign Students
Partee, Barbara H., Ed.; And Others – 1985
The proceedings of a workshop on the study of information, computation, and cognition, a field of interdisciplinary research that includes communication research in artificial intelligence, computer science, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and psychology, gives an overview of the status of funding support for the field and the concerns of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communications, Computational Linguistics, Federal Aid
Reithlingshoefer, Sally J., Ed. – 1991
These selected papers on non-traditional and interdisciplinary programs in higher education take as their theme, developing effective interdisciplinary instruction. The first set of papers which address teaching in interdisciplinary programs describe particular programs, address teaching theory, and examine interdisciplinary teaching in connection…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuing Education, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Poole, W., Ed.; Novak, J., Ed. – 1982
Proceedings of Brock University's Graduate Conference, which enabled Master of Education graduates to share their research findings, are presented. Twenty-seven papers are included on the following topics: reading, physical education and coaching, homelife affecting schooling, stress, board/administrator decision making, behavior disordered…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computers, Discipline Policy, Education Majors
New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces. – 1985
Research findings on college instruction and basic skills deficiencies are discussed in 12 papers from the first Regional Conference on University Teaching. Titles and authors are as follows: "Basic Skills: Dealing with Deficiencies" (Susanne D. Roueche, with responses by Gary B. Donart, Betty Harris, and James Nordyke); "Is Higher Education an…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Chemistry, College Instruction
Harris, Cameron – 1987
This report emphasizes the rationale for and procedures of a high school graduate follow-up telephone survey in Hampton, Virginia, conducted on classes of even-numbered years. The survey instrument and charts of results from 1982-86 comprise over three-fourths of the document. The follow-up survey was initiated to gather information for a school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Graduate Surveys
Patton, James R., Ed.; And Others – 1988
The current status and future directions of the field of mental disabilities in Iowa are discussed in the following papers, among others: "Regular Education Initiative and Its Impact on Mental Disabilities" (Carol Bradley); "Mild Mental Retardation Across the Lifespan: Current and Future Considerations" (James Patton);…
Descriptors: Classification, Delivery Systems, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
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