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Plough, Thomas R. – 1979
A four-year program for academic leadership development of department chairpersons is presented as a strategy for institutional renewal. The program has been used successfully with 100 chairpersons, ranging from the various technologies and sciences to the humanities and social sciences. The program is based on three assumptions. First, that the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development, Department Heads
Schubert, William H.; Weible, David M. – 1979
The ways in which a sample of faculty members from the University of Illinois at Chicago create curricula is described and compared with methods selected from the curriculum development literature. An overview is presented of the university's Curriculum Development Grants (CDG) Committee program, its historical development, and several domains of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Committees, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports
Perkins, James R.; Johnson, F. Craig – 1979
A technique that institutional researchers can use to assist department chairpersons in balancing student needs and faculty resources is described. Basic institutional research office data is combined with departmental data so that the department heads can justify their needs, plan recruiting, select students to achieve a balance of faculty…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development
Contracting Corp. of America, Denver, CO. – 1977
This volume presents a number of articles on different aspects of the Head Start Strategy for Spanish-Speaking Children written by participants in that effort. The first section describes Bilingual-Bicultural Curriculum Development and Evaluation projects and includes descriptions of four curriculum development projects and an evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Child Care, Competency Based Teacher Education
Sheehan, Bernard S.; Hillman, Barbara J. – 1979
The student traceback model is described and is used to demonstrate various concepts relative to institutional research methodology. The methodology of the problem-solving institutional researcher includes a wide spectrum of how-to's: how to anticipate issues in higher education and estimate their practical institutional impact; how to develop the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
