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Mangan, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts is using a $500 million pledge, a nontenured faculty, and a group of top students to help develop a new kind of institution, the first independent, four-year engineering college created in 40 years. (EV)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Engineering Education, Experimental Colleges, Nontenured Faculty
Braybrook, Susan – 1973
This booklet describes Governors State University, an open university responding to the needs of junior/community college graduates and others working towards a baccalaureate and master's degree. Emphasis is placed on the concept of the open university, planning of the open university, who are the students and how they influence the planning…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Experimental Colleges
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Draves, Bill – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1979
The concept of the free university is presented: its history, structure, philosophy, examples of courses taught, fee information, and the idea of self-directed learning. Information is also included on the Free University Network and on how to start a free university. (CT)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Experimental Colleges, Information Services, Program Content
Howard, Grover A.
This document describes the evolution of the Exploratory College at Rio Hondo Junior College (Whittier, California) from its inception at a faculty retreat in 1970 through its first year of operation in 1972-73. The Exploratory College was designed as an alternative center for exploring new ways of learning within the college community. By being a…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Experimental Colleges, Humanistic Education, Humanities
Meeth, L. Richard – 1975
Innovation programs in higher education are generally received with some skepticism and are often asked to justify their existence and the funding they are accorded. Since the programs are largely efforts to explore and demonstrate effective teaching and learning not present in traditional postsecondary education, the appropriateness of judging…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Innovation, Experimental Colleges, Federal Aid
Dwyer, Mary Clare; And Others – 1978
Based on the educational philosophy of "anybody can teach, anybody can learn", a free university offers ungraded, unaccredited classes to the general public, without charge, on any topic such as societal issues, arts and crafts, intellectual subjects, and practical skills. To plan a program, only a borrowed phone and office, human…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Education, Community Programs, Coordinators
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Guillemet, Patrick – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
This article is a descriptive overview of one aspect of the history of Quebec's Tele-universite (TU). This case is used to unveil the inter-organizational and political tensions which may accompany the somewhat difficult development of a distance education model. Teleuniversite was created in 1972 as an experimental project by the Universite du…
Descriptors: Conflict, Problems, Foreign Countries, Distance Education
Campbell, James H. – 1972
If students are to learn as much as they can, they should themselves choose what they wish to study. College faculties who set up course requirements, for whatever ostensible reason, are usurping a function which belongs to the student. Explicit guidance, in the form of advice from a faculty member, is better than the implicit guidance of course…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction
Embers, Pat; And Others – 1980
Based on the experiences of the University for Man (UFM) in Manhattan, Kansas, this model for rural adult learning presents guidelines for people and organizations to start free community education programs. The manual provides specific steps in beginning, operating, and expanding programs which utilize community leaders and resources, and which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Community Education, Community Programs
Perkins, Allan Thomas – 1983
A study was undertaken to gather data for use in planning a regional learning exchange network that would meet the learning needs of adults in three counties in the gulf coastal region of Mississippi. During the study, project-developed questionnaires were administered to representatives of agencies that would either host or sponsor the learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation