Many colleges and universities are revising course offerings and increasing graduate requirements to provide more highly integrated programs for their students. The efforts of seven institutions to develop such a core curriculum are described including those of: Saint Joseph's College (Rensselaer, Indiana); Los Medanos College (Pittsburgh,…

The American Association of Community Colleges' Beacon College Project (BCP) uses funds from the Kellogg Foundation to award two-year grants to "Beacon" community colleges to form consortia with at least five associate colleges, designed to improve a specific aspect of institutional life. A total of 26 projects, many involving community…

Generated by the need to ascertain the involvement of media centers and instructional development centers in training faculty and providing assistance in instructional design, development, and evaluation, this study was undertaken to determine: (1) the identification of those individuals at colleges and universities nationwide who are involved in…

The benefits of faculty development centers in southern universities are discussed primarily through the use of case histories. Particular services selected for inclusion in an ideal instruction center include: grants or financial assistance; released time; professional advice; technical specialists, assistants, equipment; secretarial help;…

This study examines faculty development carried on through school-based inservice programs, and looks at ways that a teacher-librarian can initiate or participate in such programs. Separate sections review the relevant literature; explore the roles of teacher-librarians in inservice programs (e.g., as change aqents, curriculum consultants, school…

This directory for literacy workers and adult educators lists universities and institutes that offer training programs to literacy personnel in four geographic regions of the world. The directory contains four sections which are organized alphabetically by geographic region, by countries within each region, and by universities and institutes…

Produced for a faculty development colloquium at the City University of New York (CUNY), this annotated bibliography includes abstracts of a total of 108 papers and monographs in the following areas: (1) theoretical background on visual and information literacy; (2) research on merging technologies and instruction; (3) library applications of…

This directory for literacy workers and adult educators lists adult literacy organizations (not including universities and institutes) which offer training courses to literacy personnel in four geographic regions of the world. The directory begins with an overview of the survey which was done to collect the data used to compile the directory and…

The three volume report includes (1) an executive summary; (2) a comprehensive report reviewing the literature on current faculty development needs in schools of osteopathic medicine; and (3) a volume of resource materials. The study gauges the formal organizational and programmatic factors that influence the success of faculty development…