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Deer, Christine – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1974
Describes the Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Studies at Macquarie University. The two year program was started in 1973. (RH)
Descriptors: Environment, Environmental Education, Higher Education, Natural Resources
Chinard, Francis P. – 1977
This report traces the evolution of a medical school from its beginnings as a private college affiliation, through its transformation into a state supported College of Medicine and Dentistry, to its emergence in Newark as the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, N.J. Medical School. The school has survived the Newark riots, political…
Descriptors: Higher Education, History, Inner City, Medical Schools
Peck, Wayne Campbell; And Others – 1994
Defining "community literacy" as literate acts that could yoke community action with intercultural education, strategic thinking and problem solving, and with observation-based research and theory building, this paper articulates this "generative and tension-filled" vision of community literacy. The paper begins by examining…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Centers, Community Education, Community Involvement
Pendleton, William C. – 1974
Since the 1950's the Ford Foundation has spent some $36 million trying to promote a closer link-up between American universities and the problems of American cities. This document reviews the foundation's experience and some of the lessons from it and speculates about the future. Since the foundation has not yet fully evaluated the results of this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inner City, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support
Davis, D. Jack; McCarter, R. Williams – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, a consortium of six school districts, five museums, two arts councils, two state agencies, and the University of North Texas, has strived to improve education in the visual arts for K-6 children and to develop better educated audiences for area museums. (JB)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, College School Cooperation, Cooperation
Martin, Kathryn A. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Colleges and Schools of Fine Arts at urban universities must be responsible for preparing teachers for K-12 education, altering models of preservice programs, supporting inservice programs, and supplementing diminishing art education in schools. Programs at Wayne State University (Michigan), University of Montana, and University of Illinois at…
Descriptors: Art Education, College School Cooperation, Cooperation, Departments
Miller, Lorna M., Ed. – 1979
The 1979 edition of the Title I, Higher Education Act Program Abstracts is presented. Directed toward state Title I, HEA administrators, the program abstracts are made available in order to encourage nationwide program replication of those tested and evaluated programs that have been conducted with Title I support by institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Business, Career Counseling, Citizen Participation