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Buzza, Bonnie Wilson – 1988
This paper looks at the development and management of an intercollegiate forensics program at a small college. It first deals with the context for analyzing a program, and then discusses the analysis itself, which should provide the foundation for a program's development. Some points for program management follow, and the paper concludes with a…
Descriptors: Debate, Higher Education, Program Development, Public Speaking
Di Renzo, Anthony – 2001
If you wish to start an undergraduate professional and technical writing (PTW) program at a small liberal arts college, you will find good arguments for your project in the educational writings of Sir Francis Bacon. This paper gathers some of Bacon's educational ideas from various writings and applies them to the five stages of undergraduate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Humanities, Personnel Selection, Program Design
Tom, Alan R. – 1999
This paper examines the presumption that larger teacher education programs are superior to smaller ones, suggesting that many of the persistent problems of preservice teacher education are rooted in the large, bureaucratic organization so prevalent in current programming. The paper suggests that small program size makes possible the development…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Gibson, Dudley; Wickham, Derek – 1986
Successful strategies for implementing and operating the Further Education Management Information System (FEMIS) at colleges of further education in the United Kingdom are discussed, along with the development of associated microcomputer-based decision support systems. FEMIS has been targeted at the smaller institutions that do not generally have…
Descriptors: Change Agents, College Administration, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Parsons, Robert A. – 1992
A new major at the University of Scranton (Pennsylvania), International Language/Business (IL/Bus), is described that first accepted students in 1986. This foreign language major of 27 credits, with a concentration in business was modeled on two cooperative programs between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Management that were…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Career Planning, Careers, College Second Language Programs
Neher, William W. – 1985
Part of a project of the small college interest group of the Central States Speech Association investigating problems of speech departments in small colleges, this paper reviews the findings of two workshops conducted by the Association of American Colleges and the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education on problems of black students…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Blacks, College Admission
Smock, Muriel – 1981
The experience of Kendall College, Illinois, a small liberal arts college, in developing a human services program is described. Attention is directed to the history of the college, the growth of the program, the curriculum content, and its benefits to both college and community. The associate degree program which admitted its first students in…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Role, Curriculum Development
Blanchard, William; Malmberg, Margaret A. – 1997
This case study focused on a small liberal arts college (Lake Erie College, Ohio) over one year during which four milestone events appeared to be pivotal in increasing the willingness of the school to use institutional research for decision-making in areas of program modification and development. At the beginning of the year, the college was faced…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Degrees (Academic)
Hoeber, Daniel R. – 1981
A program was developed at Mercy College, Detroit, to reduce attrition among conditionally admitted, full-time (CAFT) students--about one quarter of entering students at this small, urban, four-year college. The very high attrition rate among CAFT students (95%) was found to be unrelated to academic performance or program quality, and solutions to…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Counselor Role, Dropout Characteristics, Faculty Development