An Independent Study Program (ISP) was created in the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1967 to provide educational options to foster self-reliant education for medical students. (Editor)

Discusses current trends in engineering education and practice. Indicates that present curricula lay a satisfactory foundation for professional activities demanded by society. (CC)

Presents results of the 1976 workshop organized by the European Communities' Biologists' Association (ECBA) in Amsterdam. Recommendations on university training of European biologists prior to specialization are included. (HM)

This two-part bibliography on nonsexist career counseling for women is designed to provide resources for counselors, counselor educators, teachers, and others desiring to facilitate positive, nonstereotyped career awareness and development of women at secondary and postsecondary educational levels. Adolescent and adult women seeking career…

This document is the program proposal for a graduate level course of study leading to the Doctor of Education degree in Educational Administration at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. The needs, assumptions, and objectives of this program are reported, as well as the admission and degree requirements. A listing of available courses…

The author sketches some of the characteristics and trends in programs for the preparation and continuing education of educational administrators. He claims that one of the most pervasive changes in the last decade or two has been toward theory-based content drawn from the social and behavioral sciences. The author sees three paradoxes in current…

Describes the science program devised by Cantonsville Community College to provide nursing and other paramedical students with an adequate knowledge of science. The program recognizes and attempts to remedy the weak science backgrounds of many students training for paramedical careers. (JR)

The intent of this report on the Puerto Rican Faculty Development Project is to describe a dynamic, meaningful experience. A group of 25 Puerto Rican social work professionals met under the guidance of leading social work faculty with the objective of preparing themselves for full participation as social work faculty. Although the population of…

In a project designed to improve the recruitment, training and utilization of undergraduate social welfare workers in fourteen of the Southern states an attempt was made to arrive at a better understanding of just what the baccalaureate level social worker was to be. The definition was needed both for setting college curriculum objectives and for…