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| American Education | 4 |
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| Pennsylvania | 1 |
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| College Level Examination… | 1 |
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Fedo, Michael W. – American Education, 1973
All of the resources of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are being used in the remarkable new Minnesota Metropolitan State College. (Editor)
Descriptors: Campuses, College Role, Community Resources, Educational Innovation
Purdom, Tom – American Education, 1978
Having no faculty or classrooms and offering no courses by mail or television, the external degree program at Thomas Edison State College in Pennsylvania is described as an accredited program whereby college credits are gained primarily through the use of CLEP (College Level Examination Program) tests and individual assessment. (BM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Credits, Experimental Colleges, External Degree Programs
Arnstein, George E. – American Education, 1974
New moves to halt the traffic in phony degrees are complicated by uneven state laws and the push by legitimate colleges to innovate. (Editor)
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Doctoral Degrees, Educational Innovation, External Degree Programs
McNett, Ian E. – American Education, 1976
The rapid growth of the external degree movement has had its problems, and in a recent study called Legal Constraints to the Development of External Degree Programs, the author discussed the decision making process regarding the regulation of postsecondary external degree programs. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Problems, Educational Research
