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Peer reviewedReardon, Kenneth M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Participatory action research focuses on information and analyzes needs of society's most economically, politically, socially marginalized groups/communities, and pursues research on issues determined by their leaders. It provides faculty with opportunities to conduct research relevant to community needs while providing service learning…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Instruction, Community Action, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMettetal, Gwynn; Bryant, De – College Teaching, 1996
A model of service learning that can serve as a vehicle for teaching, research, and community service is suggested to college faculty. Two such projects are described: a project providing parent education to young families while researching effectiveness of temperament education, and an intergenerational program to determine whether community…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Instruction, Community Programs, Drama
Costello, Libby, Comp. – 1985
A collection of 79 program ideas demonstrates creative approaches to academic programs and administrative concerns. As part of an annual event sponsored by the Ameridan Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the ideas were nominated by institutions in the 1985 competition for the G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrators, Awards, Change Strategies
Costello, Libby, Comp. – 1983
A collection of program ideas are presented that were nominated by their institutions in the 1983 competition for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change in Higher Education. The programs demonstrate creative approaches to such academic/administrative concerns as student access…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Awards, Change Strategies, College Administration
Download full textIllinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1994
This report provides a summary and assessment of the results of the 1993-94 Priorities, Quality, and Productivity (PQP) initiative undertaken by the Illinois State Board of Higher Education and makes recommendations for consideration by the board to set directions for 1994-95. The first section describes state-level PQP activities in 1993-94. The…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Athletics, College Instruction, Colleges
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1995
This report provides a summary and assessment of the Priorities, Quality and Productivity (PQP) efforts during 1994-95 of Illinois community colleges and independent colleges and universities, collectively, and of individual public universities. Emphasis is on implementation of recommendations of the Illinois Board of Higher Education of November,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Instruction, College Outcomes Assessment, Colleges
Calvin, Henrietta W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Home economics education includes not only that instruction in household arts and sciences which is given in elementary and secondary schools and universities, colleges, and normal schools, but it also includes that which is taught through correspondence and extension courses. The major topics in home economics education are discussed in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Extension Education, Elementary School Students
