STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) plays a key role in accelerating economic growth and developing innovative solutions to pressing challenges facing the African continent. Over the past few decades, much work has been done to develop university systems in African countries in recognition of the role that high-caliber…

The papers collected in this document are derived from a symposium held during the 1990 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archeology. The symposium, part of an increasing effort to make archeology more accessible to the general public, was dedicated solely to archaeology and education, and the papers described programs designed to…

This meeting proceedings provide a forum for the program directors to discuss various educational challenges facing undergraduate science departments and to learn how their colleagues in other institutions are addressing the same challenges. The meeting theme was New Tools for Science Education and participants examined issues related to how new…

The "RAMCAD" workshop summarized in this document reviewed the prospects for integrating reliability and maintainability into undergraduate engineering curricula. RAMCAD stands for Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability in Computer-Aided Design. The workshop was sponsored by Air Force human resources departments and attended by a…

Five papers from the International Seminar on Educational Reform, in Chiba and Kyoto, Japan, 14-17 October 1985, are presented. Trends in educational reforms, goal and structure, and curriculum; and content of secondary education, selection and admission in higher education, and undergraduate education are discussed. Educational reform in Japan…

This document includes the proceedings and papers of the 18th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, which was held on March 24-26, 2004 in Monticello, NY. The conference, which dealt with ideas and innovations in the teaching of psychology, was sponsored by the Psychology Department of the Farmingdale State University. The…

This document provides the keynote address and papers delivered at the 1991 California State University Conference on Innovation in Engineering Education which focused on the pre-engineering curriculum. The conference was convened as a collaborative effort by faculty to address the following issues in engineering education: (1) the attraction and…

While recent reports on the improvement of college curricula and instructional quality have inspired higher education leaders, Wingspread conference participants see obstacles to reform in conflicts over accountability, campus-government relationships, and even the existence of a crisis in academe. (MSE)

Texas faculty and administrators from various colleges and various disciplines met to discuss the development and implementation of a core curriculum at their institutions. A summary provides brief synopses of the speeches delivered and the panel discussions. The document then provides the text of the welcoming remarks; the keynote address;…

The 49th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music was held in Denver, Colorado in 1973. These proceedings contain the reports of the various commissions and committees (graduate, undergraduate, junior college, library, and president). The three addresses to the general session and the papers presented at the regional meetings…

This conference was designed to provide information on the development and implementation of seven undergraduate science courses primarily for non-science majors at Lehigh University, to examine what ought to be the objectives of courses such as these in the liberal arts curriculum, and to describe parallel efforts with similar educational…

Selected proceedings are presented from the Fifth Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology. The proceedings includes: (1) "Multimodal Self-Management: A Holistic Approach to Teaching Self-Improvement," by Edward J. O'Keefe and Donna Berger; (2) "Undergraduate Research: Statistics to Senior Presentations," by Glena L. N. Schubarth;…

Proceedings of the North Country Workshop on Science, Technology, and the Undergraduate Curriculum are presented. The Sloan Foundation's call for reform of the liberal arts and coverage of mathematics, science, and technology is noted in welcoming remarks by State University of New York, Potsdam, President Humphrey Tonkin. Stephen H. Cutcliffe…

This document reports the proceedings of a national conference to chart the comprehensive changes needed to meet the challenges of undergraduate professional education in agriculture. Part I of the proceedings contains the following 14 conference papers: (1) "Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The…

Changes in the delivery of health care services and their implications for nursing practice and nursing education are discussed in nine papers from the 1986 annual meeting of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing. Titles and authors are as follows: "Changes in Health Care and Challenges for Nursing Education" (Jacquelyn S.…