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Widening the Circle: The Humanities in American Education. A Report of the Wingspread Conference on the Humanities in Higher Education (Racine, Wisconsin, March 30-April 1, 1981).
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Sheridan, Harriet W.; Hill, Barbara Ann – 1981
A report of the 1981 Wingspread Conference, which sought remedies for the current low state of the humanities in American higher education, is presented. Participants included 60 college presidents, deans, faculty members, government officials, and business and foundation officials. Recommendations are as follows: (1) a collaborative effort should…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Faculty, College Programs, College School Cooperation
Research in Nursing Practice, Education, and Administration: Collaborative, Methodological, and Ethical Implications. Proceedings of the Research Conference of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing (3rd, Baltimore, Maryland, December 2-3, 1983).
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Strickland, Ora L., Ed.; Damrosch, Shirley P., Ed. – 1983
Collaborative research in nursing is discussed in five papers from the 1983 conference of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing. Also included are 32 abstracts of nursing research, focusing on clinical practice, as well as nursing education and research models. Paper titles and authors are as follows: "Building a Climate…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, College Programs, Continuing Education
Adapting Institutions to the Adult Learner: Experiments in Progress. Current Issues in Higher Education, 1978 National Conference Series.
Loring, Rosalind K.; And Others – 1978
The four conference papers presented here examine specific strategies and programs by which colleges and universities can design and adapt programs for adult students. In "Strategies of Adaptation" Rosalind K. Loring notes six major types of adaptation to which traditional, four-year schools have resorted (flexible schedules, simulated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Change Strategies, College Programs
Proceedings of the College Reading Association, Volume 10, Fall 1969.
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Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1969
The proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the College Reading Association (with a focus on "Reading: Today's Needs, Tomorrow's Challenges") consisted of the following papers: "President's Address" (J. R. Newton); "Structure, Stricture in Reading Programs" (M. J. Weiss); "Why Use Informal Reading…
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Inservice Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Non-Traditional and Interdisciplinary Programs. Proceedings from the Annual Conference (6th, Virginia Beach, Virginia, April 25-27, 1988).
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Reithlingshoefer, Sally J., Ed.; Sanford, James F., Ed. – 1988
A total of 72 papers on nontraditional and interdisciplinary programs are presented in 11 tracks: (1) Assessing Learning Outcomes and Providing Quality in Non-Traditional Degree Programs (8 papers, including "Assessing the Quality of a Non-Traditional Degree Program: A Case Study," by Solomon Deressa and Mary Sue Simmons); (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees, College Curriculum, College Programs
Proceedings of the Annual Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education (21st, DeKalb, Illinois, October 9-11, 2002).
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Orem, Richard A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 41 papers and 11 poster session presentations from a conference on research-to-practice in adult, continuing, and community education. The following are among the papers included: "Learning in a Multicultural Environment" (Mansur Abdullah, Cory Eisenberg, Willard C. Hall Jr., Pauline Valvo); "How to Engage in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs