This book offers normative information about various operational facets of collegiate summer activities, places the role of the modern day collegiate summer session in evolutionary perspective, and provides baseline information produced by four national studies and one regional study. The book's chapters focus on: (1) a global perspective and…

Energy cost-avoidance programs are seen as providing the unique opportunity to involve the entire campus in an effort that has an impact not only on the campus but also on broader national problems. Several aspects of the comprehensive energy management program at the University of Pennsylvania are discussed. (MLW)

Information on Colorado State University's foreign language camps for college students is presented. Advantages of the following two models for camps are identified: a single language camp, and a combination multi-language camp with four languages (Spanish, French, German, and Chinese). Features of the camps include: speaking in the foreign…

Argues that in higher education, values and priorities of the enterprise's "producers" have little in common with those of the "consumers," and identifies areas in which this is apparent, including tuition, college choice, selection of a president, program development, faculty rewards, state subsidies, institutional budgeting, and school…

During the decade 1920-1930 the number of nursery schools reported to the United States Office of Education increased from 3 to 262. This last number does not comprise the total number of nursery schools in the United States, but the increase from 3 to 262 in the number reported indicates their rapid growth. This evident interest in nursery…