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Weir, Cate – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2019
This guide offers basic considerations for starting the college search, as well as helpful tips. It also includes key questions to ask staff from college programs, covering topics such as academics, employment and student supports, housing, financial aid, and the overall campus and community experience, with room to add questions of your own.
Descriptors: College Choice, College Bound Students, College Applicants, Decision Making
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Seelman, Kristie L. – Gender and Education, 2014
Research indicates that transgender individuals frequently experience marginalisation and interpersonal victimisation within college and university settings. Missing from the literature is a discussion of what can be done to address such patterns in higher education, based upon empirical data gathered from transgender and gender non-conforming…
Descriptors: Campuses, College Environment, Change Strategies, Organizational Change
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Brown, John Seely; Pendleton-Jullian, Ann; Adler, Richard – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
In 2012, the country's land-grant colleges and universities will celebrate their sesquicentennial. This anniversary provides a good opportunity to consider how these distinctively American institutions have evolved over the past 150 years and how well they are doing today in preparing students for the 21st century. Resilience will be a key…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Development, Educational Change
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Gibbs, Graham; Dunbar-Goddet, Harriet – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2009
This article outlines a methodology for characterising features of programme-level assessment environments so that the relationship between features of the assessment environment and students' learning response can be studied. The methodology was developed through the detailed case study of nine undergraduate degree programmes: one in each of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Design, Student Evaluation, Quality Control
Garcia, Rodolfo – 1982
Birnbaum's 1982 study of diversity in higher education is reviewed, and the development of an indicator series on institutional diversity is evaluated. Birnbaum studied diversity in higher education in the framework of a natural selection or population ecology model, which emphasizes the importance of environmental factors in shaping populations…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Programs, Diversity (Institutional)
Clugston, Richard M., Jr. – 1986
The relationship between strategic planning and environmental determinism was investigated at the University of Minnesota. The central proposition was that for a particular type of institution (a liberal arts college of a large public university), the strategic planning process will not be strategic either in the sense of being environmentally…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Planning, College Programs, Departments
Warner, Carla; Williams, Jennifer – 1995
A study was conducted to obtain measurements of adult student attitudes using the Mattering Scales for Adult Students in Higher Education (MHE). The MHE is designed to assess the perceptions of adult learners about their learning environment. The purpose of the scale is to learn more about the different ways in which adult learners feel they…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Environment, College Faculty, College Programs
Hoerner, James L.; And Others – 1991
A 2-year study was made of professional development programs for occupational-technical faculty in community, technical, and junior colleges. During the first year of the study, a survey of 1,252 community, technical, and junior colleges was conducted. Of the 878 institutions that returned surveys, 708 (85 percent) offered professional development…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Programs, Community Colleges
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Seibert, Alan – Australian Art Education, 1996
Presents a fascinating history of the only remaining Australian college solely devoted to art education. Traces the development of the school from its early days as a technical college to its current incarnation. Discusses many of the personalities and conflicts involved in the restructuring. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Artists, College Administration
Dennis, Marguerite J. – 1994
This brochure is designed to help college applicants and their families to obtain the information they need to select a college. The brochure opens by listing five basic points to set the stage for gathering information and making a decision. There follows discussion of 10 criteria to consider along with an "insider tip" for each criterion and…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Applicants, College Choice, College Environment
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, Harrisburg. – 1977
This publication is divided into three sections that provide profiles of the colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, program listings, and information on student aid. The guide is designed to help high school students and their counselors select those programs and institutions of higher education that best match the students' needs, interests,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Choice, College Environment
Heintze, Michael R. – 1985
The founding and development of private, primarily church-related, black colleges in Texas from 1865-1954 are reviewed, with focus primarily on 11 institutions that offered college-level work. Comparisons are made to public black colleges of Texas as well as to other black U.S. colleges and universities. Topical areas include: institutional…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Black Colleges, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum