Paper presented at the 1971 ADFL Summer Seminar for Chairmen at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, June 21-25. (DS)

The three-year bachelors degree program is an old part of American educational tradition. Herein, the author discusses the implications for use of the three-year baccalaureate. (RK)

Address delivered at a meeting of the Modern Language Section of the Tennessee Education Association on March 26, 1971. (DS)

Suggests that law students be required to take course in legislative process in first year, encouraged to take elective problem-solving course in second or third year, and allowed to provide direct legislative services as part of their training. Contains detailed course description. (WM)

An overview is provided of recent efforts to review and redefine the associate degree, with special focus on a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) and the Miami-Dade Community College District (MDCCD) which attempted to sharpen the focus of the inquiry into the definition of the associate degree. First,…

Red Ink College is a hypothetical, private, coeducational institution located in the northeastern United States. The college is operating at a deficit that increases each year. A faculty curriculum committee is investigating the idea of introducing a time-shortened baccalaureate. Considerations involved in the decisionmaking are the history of…

Describes the goals which the faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, set for its new program (particularly for engineering education) and the new teaching and implementation strategies developed to attain those goals, and then examines the tentative results. (Author/RK)

Describes curricular changes and experimental interdisciplinary approaches in teaching foreign languages at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Paper read at the 1971 ADFL Summer Seminar for Chairmen, June 21-25, at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. (DS)

Speech delivered at the Fourth Annual Meeting of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on November 27, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. (DS)

A library training program was developed in the Pacific Islands by the University of the South Pacific. During the early years of library training (1972-1980), the professional library staff at the university provided a semi-formal training program for non-professionals in the form of a series of one-week workshops. A total of 72 people completed…

The tradition of forensics is being threatened by philosophical differences within departments of speech communication. If the area of forensics is to regain its former academic and cocurricular prominence, directors of forensics need to adjust to changing philosophies and needs. They must clarify the aims and goals of forensics programs,…

Speech delivered at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) meeting, at the Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association of America (MLA), December 26, 1969, in Denver, Colorado. (DS)

The principal concept of the Curriculum of Attainments (COA) is that college degrees are awarded on the basis of demonstrated competencies without regard to the amount of time required to attain them. The method of curriculum reform advocated in the COA project is the establishment and expansion of small pilot programs within existing departmental…

Describes a multimethod assessment of psychology student outcomes at the University of Northern Colorado. Nineteen goals and objectives for psychology majors were identified. Describes changes in the psychology program prompted by the assessment results. (CFR)