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The Kalamazoo Plan: Institutionalizing Internships for Liberal Arts Students.
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Caccese, Arthur – Innovative Higher Education, 1984
A career internship program developed at Kalamazoo College is described that combines career development and experiential learning in a liberal arts curriculum. It has had significant positive results in graduates' career and educational success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Development, Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Secretarial Internships: A Feasible Program for Community Colleges.
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Humphrey, Doris D. – Business Education Forum, 1982
The benefits of a secretarial internship program to the student, the employer, and the college are explored. The author suggests a strategy for developing such a program and discusses curriculum design. (CT)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Internship Programs, Program Design
Designing and Maintaining an Undergraduate Practicum Course in Psychology.
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Fernald, C. D.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1982
Professors describe their experiences with the undergraduate psychology practicum course that has been in operation for over 10 years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Specifically discussed are planning and implementation, special problems of industrial placements, administrative issues, and the perspective of a placement agency…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Higher Education Perspective of Classroom Management and School Effectiveness.
Monahan, William G. – 1981
Many activities are currently going on to improve the quality of teacher education, which ultimately will improve the quality of elementary secondary education. Studies on school effectiveness have led to programs encouraging collaboration and cooperation among educators, redefinition of educational policies, planning for declining enrollment,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Standards of Excellence for Experiential Education through Internships.
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Ryan, Mary – 1999
This document presents and explains the Institute for Experiential Learning's Standards of Excellence for Experiential Education through Internships, which were developed to generate a discussion in the higher education community on the academic standards that should serve as benchmarks for assessing the elements of good practice in internship…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Institutional)
The International Approach: Learning English through Content Area Study.
LaGuardia Community Coll., Long Island City, NY. International High School. – 1987
Descriptive material about LaGuardia Community College International High School's program teaching English to limited-English-speaking students through content area instruction includes descriptions of individual program elements and courses. Two courses in the integrated learning center--a course on orientation to school and society, and a…
Descriptors: American Studies, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Training, Curriculum Development
Proceedings of the Annual Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages for Business and the Professions (5th, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 10-12, 1986).
Voght, Geoffrey M., Comp. – 1986
Forty-five conference papers are presented in six sections: getting started in languages for special purposes (concerning teaching, curriculum development, finding, and resources); Spanish for business and the professions; French for business and the professions; other languages (English as a second language, German, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Cultural Context