This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience. Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in "Living-Learning Communities That Work," as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC…

The active participation of alumni is necessary for the long-term health of institutions of higher education. Alumni contribute financially to higher education institutions by sharing their time and talents. Recently, a small private University in Macao initiated an alumni mentoring pilot program to engage alumni. However, it is unclear what the…

Intergroup dialogue (IGD), the focus of this monograph, is one of several dialogue and deliberation practices currently being used on college and university campuses in the United States. The introductory chapter introduces IGD, its historical roots, its location among similar diversity education practices, and its core components. The subsequent…

Explains the merits and liabilities of student exchange programs and examines the factors needed to establish successful programs. (EV)

A field-training pilot program at Richmond College in 1973 is described. It used undergraduates as leaders for multifamily counseling groups. Discussed are program planning, student selection, training procedures, supervision methods, and project benefits. (ND)

This survey attempts to acquire feedback for University of Georgia graduates with regard to the impact of their college experiences on their careers and on their personal and social development. Information was obtained by means of a questionnaire. This feedback could be used by the various constituencies that make up the university in many…

Well-designed experiential education programs have much to contribute to higher education and the benefits to student, faculty, institution, and participating comunity organization outweigh the costs. However, the program must be an integral part of the institution's overall instructional-curricular development to be effective. (MSE)

This monograph looks into the origins of competency programs in higher education and explores various ideas about educational outcomes as a basis for defining what competency is and is not. These educational outcome ideas relate to behavioral objectives, mastery learning, and testing for specific competencies rather than for an intelligence test…

The agenda for promoting and expanding experiential learning in other cultures includes building commitment, examining organizational issues in program planning and implementation, assessment needs, and discussion of faculty and student rewards of cross-cultural study. Additional resources and literature references are given. (MSE)

The University of Minnesota's required six-week ambulatory medicine clerkship provides a comprehensive orientation to ambulatory care through planned integration of patient care with academic work. Responses of both students and faculty have been enthusiastic, with the benefits compensating for high costs in preceptor time. (MSE)

A continuing partnership, such as between Johnson & Johnson and the public relations program in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers, the State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, sees the development of various benefits as well as perils. Such relationships begin with a contact phase, followed by…

The testimony of John C. Rainer, Director of the American Indian Scholarship Program, before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Affairs (May 1973) examined the Senate's reduction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) appropriation for 1973-74. Rainer explained that the $19,938,000 requested for the year, $10,000,000…

The experience of Kendall College, Illinois, a small liberal arts college, in developing a human services program is described. Attention is directed to the history of the college, the growth of the program, the curriculum content, and its benefits to both college and community. The associate degree program which admitted its first students in…

An instructional program was developed and implemented at Kansas State University to provide career advancement training for respiratory therapy aides and technicians who have had on-the-job training in clinical experience in the basic respiratory therapy skills. The program was implemented under the auspices of TELENET, the Kansas Regents…

A project was undertaken to introduce gerontological content into the professional preparation of adult educators in the master's program in adult education offered at the University of Southern Maine. After courses in the existing curriculum of the master's program were analyzed for the appropriateness and currency of their gerontological…