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Walvoord, Barbara E.; Carey, Anna K.; Smith, Hoke L.; Soled, Suzanne W.; Way, Philip K.; Zorn, Debbie – 2000
A literature review, the experiences of the authors, and the results of the Project To Improve and Reward Teaching (PIRT) at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, are used to derive suggestions for change in academic departments. A qualitative study of change in eight PIRT departments has provided data to support the suggestions. Assessing the…
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Change, Higher Education, Needs Assessment
Waggaman, John S. – Administrator's Update, 1984
Factors reported to be important in the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional development programs for department chairs are described. Attention is also directed to results from a goal-focused evaluation of the 6-year-old program to train new department heads in the nine state universities of Florida, a program that is being…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Higher Education, Inservice Education, Management Development
Zimpher, Nancy L.; Loadman, William E. – 1986
This monograph grew out of an effort to develop a new and comprehensive system for evaluation of teacher education programs at Ohio State University (OSU). The need for a more sophisticated evaluation system became apparent as it was noted that follow-up studies revealed that many graduates of the College of Education took their first jobs…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Chronister, Jay L.; Kepple, Thomas R., Jr. – 1988
An incentive early retirement program is an arrangement between employer and employee that provides tangible inducement or reward for voluntary early retirement. It may be a formal program or an ad hoc agreement negotiated with the institution. The most common incentives include severance pay, liberalized actuarial reduction, annuity enhancements,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Early Retirement, Employment Practices, Higher Education
Wright, Lindsay M.; Middleberg, Rona – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1998
Describes a collaboration between the New York University (NYU) School of Education and eleven area community colleges that encourages student transfer to NYU to prepare for teaching and human-service careers. Reviews lessons learned from this partnership, which began in 1989. (EMH)
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Education Majors, Higher Education
Kasowitz-Scheer, Abby; Pasqualoni, Michael – 2002
Students today face a daily explosion of information resources and the challenge of using these resources effectively and responsibly. Information literacy instruction (ILI) requires a shift in focus from teaching specific information resources to a set of critical thinking skills involving the use of information. ILI in an academic setting…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Seymour, Daniel T.; Fife, Jonathan D., Ed. – 1988
The ongoing process of developing new academic programs is slow, and the process by which this gradual reshaping occurs involves all aspects of the institution of higher education. The overlap of innovation in organizations, strategic planning, and program evaluation is important in this development. Administrators, trustees, and faculty members…
Descriptors: College Programs, Creativity, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Kellogg, Karen – 1999
This digest urges greater collaboration between academic departments and student affairs personnel at institutions of higher education for the purpose of providing students with a seamless culture of learning. Reports of the American College Personnel Association, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and the American…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Faculty, Cooperative Programs, Enrichment Activities
Eddy, Margot Sanders – 1992
Due in part to the 1989 passage of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendments, new programs designed to educate college administrators, faculty, and students about alcohol and other drug abuse have taken new directions and dimensions, involving both campuses and local communities in the process. The higher education community has…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Colleges, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Middleton, Ernest J., Ed.; Mason, Emanuel J., Ed. – 1988
Presentations at this conference focused on the following topics: (1) the recruitment and retention of minorities in teacher education; (2) history and social psychology of the issue; (3) futuristic views and minority participation in the 1990s; (4) comparison of teacher education programs in traditionally black and white institutions; (5)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minority Group Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Luna, Gaye; Cullen, Deborah L. – 1995
This digest discusses the use of faculty mentoring programs to empower faculty and ultimately benefit the institution and improve the quality of higher education. It refers to the literature on mentoring in terms of conceptual frameworks, mentoring arenas, and roles and functions of mentors and proteges. It briefly addresses the following aspects…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Empowerment, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Luna, Gaye; Cullen, Deborah L. – 1995
This report discusses the use of faculty mentoring programs to empower faculty and ultimately benefit the institution and improve the quality of higher education. It synthesizes the literature on mentoring in terms of conceptual frameworks, mentoring arenas, and roles and functions of mentors and proteges. The first section provides a general…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Empowerment, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Fisher, Robert L. – 1988
Proposed reforms in education call for, among other things: developing K-12 schools as field sites for teacher education; professionalizing teachers to give them a greater voice in carrying out the responsibilities of their positions; and providing the opportunity for lifelong career development for teachers. Schools and colleges or universities…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Development, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Dawson, Martha E.; And Others – 1981
This volume of papers, written by professors of education, an administrator, and a clinical psychologist, illustrate how the concept of equity can be woven into the professional components of teacher education. In "A Matter of Linkage: Multicultural Education and Educational Equity," Martha E. Dawson maintains that multicultural education is an…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Ethnic Groups, Foundations of Education, Higher Education
Lynch, Michael L.; And Others – 1981
Each paper in this monograph provides a discussion of and/or proposes a possible solution to a critical issue which must be faced by student affairs workers during the 1980's. The first article examines the legitimacy of student affairs as a professional entity within the field of higher education. The second article discusses the rationale of…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Responsibility, Anthologies, Financial Policy