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The Context of the Demand for Special Education Faculty: A Study of Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs
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Robb, Susan Mortorff; Smith, Deborah Deutsch; Montrosse, Bianca Elizabeth – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2012
Understanding the context of the demand for special education (SE) teacher education (TE) faculty is important because it can provide faculty at doctoral-granting universities with useful information for program planning. Knowing more about SE teacher preparation programs currently in place and program revisions being planned allows doctoral…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Doctoral Programs, Special Education Teachers, Program Development
Making Learning Communities Work: Issues of Implementation and Sustainability.
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Gabelnick, Faith; MacGregor, Jean; Matthews, Roberta S.; Smith, Barbara Leigh – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
Offers a checklist for implementing sustainable learning communities in colleges and universities. Addresses issues including determining focus and design, use of faculty resources, coordination with current institutional initiatives, administrative support needed, resources needed, promotion and marketing, institutionalization of the concept, and…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Role, Educational Environment
Institutional Flexibility: The Glassboro State College Flexibility Index.
Tomei, Mario J. – 1978
The development of a staff flexibility index at Glassboro State College is presented. It was an outgrowth of retrenchment problems for tenured faculty. Institutional flexibility was defined as the continuing ability of the institution to implement new or modify existing programs, employing a rationale that sees the ability to employ new faculty or…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Declining Enrollment, Faculty College Relationship
Crossing the Chasm--Introducing Flexible Learning into the Botswana Technical Education Programme: From Policy to Action
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Richardson, Alison Mead – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This paper reports on a longitudinal, ethnomethodological case study of the development towards flexible delivery of the Botswana Technical Education Programme (BTEP), offered by Francistown College of Technical & Vocational Education (FCTVE). Data collection methods included documentary analysis, naturalistic participant observation, and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Participant Observation, Staff Utilization, Interviews
Staff Development Services. Final Report, 1979.
Beamish, Eric; And Others – 1979
Two-year colleges' staff development practices are examined so as to highlight issues, concerns, and problems; outline possible solutions; and offer alternative models. A brief review of the topical literature opens the report, followed by discussion of the "Change Agent Study" (Rand Corporation's four-year study of federally funded programs to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, College Administration, College Faculty
Taxonomy of Intensive English Program Innovations.
Stoller, Fredericka L. – Journal of Intensive English Studies, 1992
A survey of 43 intensive English-as-a-Second-Language programs in higher education institutions resulted in a scheme for classifying innovative policies and practices in these categories: curriculum development; personnel; technology; policy and planning; community and campus liaison; faculty development; student placement and evaluation;…
Descriptors: Classification, College Faculty, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Design