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Lewington, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
At Canadian universities, business schools are light-years ahead of the rest of the campus in raising their global profile. Intensive foreign-student-recruitment efforts, friendly Canadian immigration rules, mandatory study-abroad requirements, and, in some cases, the option to pursue programs in multiple languages have combined to pack a punch in…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries
Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Mike Potts was halfway through a five-year prison sentence outside Houston when he heard about a program that would help him start a business when even buddies with clean records were struggling to find work. The Prison Entrepreneurship Program, run by a nonprofit group of the same name, works with Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business…
Descriptors: Employment, Distance Education, Internet, Marketing
Fischer, Karin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Students in the University of Rhode Island's International Engineering Program (IEP) spend a semester studying at an overseas university and another six months interning at a company abroad; at the end of five years, they earn two degrees, in engineering and a foreign language. Despite the extra academic demands, nearly a third of Rhode Island's…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Engineering Education, Engineering, International Education
Fischer, Karin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Just 1 percent of East Carolina University undergraduates study overseas. But thanks to a pair of enterprising faculty members, a growing number of students are having international experiences without ever leaving the Greenville, North Carolina campus. The university's Global Understanding program uses inexpensive and relatively unsophisticated…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Global Approach, Study Abroad, Partnerships in Education
Monaghan, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
The University of Oregon's Center for Electronic Studying investigates ways to use computers to assist college students with physical and learning disabilities for whom studying is especially difficult. Such efforts are increasingly needed because of the trend toward mainstreaming students with varied disabilities. Meeting the cost of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Information Technology
Carnevale, Dan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how a graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln uses his distance education courses to improve production on his family's farm. (EV)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Distance Education, Graduate Study, Program Descriptions
Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
The University of North Dakota, North Dakota State University, and North Dakota State College of Science offer complete undergraduate and graduate degree programs on an interactive video network, sometimes broadcasting at off-campus sites, making higher education more accessible and causing faculty to shift their perspectives on teaching. (MSE)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Curriculum, Degrees (Academic), Distance Education
Palmer, Stacy E. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
American universities are sponsoring overseas academic programs designed for their alumni and other adults. The programs last for 2 or 3 weeks, make money and cement cross-cultural academic ties. A program run by the University of California at Berkeley is described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alumni, Alumni Education, Cross Cultural Studies
Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Many adults are attending weekend colleges in search of undergraduate degrees. The intense two- or three-day programs provide a workable alternative for adults who are unable or unwilling to attend classes during the day or evening. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic), Higher Education
Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991
Students in Miami-Dade Community College's remedial education courses supplement reading, writing, and mathematics coursework with computer-assisted instruction in a special electronic classroom. The experimental program is investigating whether integrating computer instruction in the basic skills curriculum helps underprepared students overcome…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
Turner, Judith Axler – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1983
TeleLearning System, Incorporated plans to offer correspondence courses by computer. Fifteen universities are participating in TeleLearning Network pilot programs; however, none of the courses are recognized for credit at this time. The courses combine the traditional correspondence course approach with the modern technology of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Correspondence Study
Evangelauf, Jean – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
With American corporate investments abroad rising and world trade expanding, the need for managers who are knowledgeable about the culture and business practices of other nations is growing. Some programs in American business schools are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Curriculum Development, Economics, Educational Change
Bailey, Anne Lowrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
The Harkness fellowships bring young students from Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand for graduate study, research, professional experience, and travel in the United States. Many past fellows have gone on to positions of leadership in government, business, academe, and the arts in their countries. (MSE)
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Fellowships, Foreign Students, Graduate Study
Floyd, Bianca P. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1996
Scholars in the University of Maryland's Afro-American studies program are studying the ways in which black communities have been left behind as white society found new ways to advance economically. They hope to reach into black communities to familiarize those populations with computers and use of the Internet while building a research base in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Black Studies, Blacks, Higher Education
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The New Jersey Project: Integrating the Scholarship on Gender seeks to change fundamentally what and how students learn by incorporating issues of gender into college courses. University of Arizona students are required to complete a course that deals with issues of gender, race, or class. (MLW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Females, Feminism, Higher Education
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