With increased campus interest in continuing education subject matter, departments are assuming roles which were previously the exclusive domain of extension departments. In examining this situation, the author proposes an organizational and functional model whereby both the university and adult student body may be best served. (Author/BP)

School counselors are especially well-situated to play proactive, catalytic roles in defining the future for programs that support the education of all students. This article briefly highlights the current state of the art and its deficiencies, and discusses the importance of reframing current reforms. (Contains 68 references.) (GCP)

In 1990, Florida State University joined the National Alliance--a Danforth/NASSP-sponsored group of four universities who initially would receive performance-based leadership training for revamping their administrator training programs. So far, Florida State has completed a five-year participation plan, reconceptualized three advanced degree…

Friends University in Kansas turned its program around by offering more programs during the evening. Success of the adult programming is attributed to business-industry support, pioneering attitudes of faculty and administrators, and adult-learner population needing flexible scheduling. (JOW)

Discusses the role of the program director in the context of new college programs such as general education, honors programs, etc., that cut across traditional organizational structures. The leadership challenge for the general education program director requires bridging the gaps between intention and implementation, between responsibility and…

This article details the efforts of a department of educational leadership chair and her faculty to reorganize a doctoral program to better meet the changing needs of its students. A modified action research model was used as the conceptual framework to accomplish this undertaking. (Contains 2 figures.)

The new Rhetoric and Writing major at Mount St. Mary's College (an independent Catholic, liberal arts institution in northern Maryland) developed in response to local conditions and local problems. In 1988, owing to a mutual recognition of the different missions of the writing and literature programs, the writing faculty were officially separated…

This article examined the differences between evaluation instruments used by fifty-one school systems and two non-conforming school systems. (Author/RK)

A report is given of a three-phase study of the performance of 554 elementary education majors before and after a recent wave of educational reforms in Mississippi. Data were arranged pre/post Mississippi Education Reform Act (1982), pre/post College of Education reform (1984-88), and post reform data (after 1988). The purpose was to be able to…

A discussion of educational change as a four-phase process is offered in this bulletin. Strategies for initiation, implementation, institutionalization, and impact, with an emphasis on the first two stages, are described. Also included are a discussion of myths of change and an annotated bibliography of seven sources on educational change. (23…

The focus of this paper is on the new Secondary Teacher Education Program at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The authors draw program inferences from a review of the literature on teacher education reform and present a brief history of the development of the program. A description is given of the program that has been initiated,…

Changes in the modern family on young men and women attending college is examined in the context of higher education. A discussion is offered of psychological regression and narcissism, the need young people bring to college, and how these needs may or may not be met by traditional programs. (Editor/PG)

Discussed the founding of Strawberry Creek College, designed to bring some sense of direction into the present disarray of undergraduate education. (Author/RK)