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Direct linkKramer, Dennis A., II; Wu, Jiayao – Educational Policy, 2021
Two distinct literature bases exist documenting the benefits of study aboard participation and state-adopted merit-aid policies. However, few, to date, have estimated the impact of merit-aid adoption on study abroad participation. Results from our study demonstrate the potential positive externality merit-aid policy adoption has on study abroad…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Study Abroad, State Aid, Student Financial Aid
Download full textMuldrow, Lycurgus; Chambers, Brittany; Newell, Mi'Kayla; Salter, Amy – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
A critical challenge facing institutions of higher education is the integration of a sustainable energy curriculum into interdisciplinary education. This case study evaluates the campus-wide development and adoption of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary sustainability education minor at a small, minority-serving institution. Forty faculty…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Liberal Arts, Case Studies, Institutional Characteristics
McMillan, Janice; Stanton, Timothy K. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2014
In this paper we explore an approach to developing and implementing service-learning and community-based research in a study-abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa. Drawing on a notion of partnerships reflecting the values of accompaniment and transparency, and influenced by the importance of learning service, we outline an intentional, engaged…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Michel, Roberta M. – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2014
This article details a faculty learning community (FLC) that started in 2009 on the campus of a Midwestern University and has evolved into an interdisciplinary research, teaching and social community of practice and learning called SurPriSe. SurPriSe is an acronym that reflects the interest area of the FLC; Sur for surveillance, Pri for privacy,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Institutional Characteristics
Condon, William; Rutz, Carol – College Composition and Communication, 2012
Early status reports on WAC call for engagement with the disciplines, robust research about writing, and a transformation from missionary work to a more wide-ranging model. A Taxonomy of WAC describes common characteristics of WAC programs as well as organizing those characteristics into a progression from initiation to change agency. (Contains 1…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Writing Across the Curriculum, Educational Development, Writing Research
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Hauhart, Robert C.; Grahe, Jon E. – Teaching Sociology, 2012
Previous research on capstones in sociology and psychology has suggested that there is a typical capstone experience required by three quarters of all four-year colleges and universities in the United States. This article reports results from a national survey that confirm that sociology and psychology capstone courses conform generally to a…
Descriptors: Sociology, Psychology, National Surveys, Educational Practices
Masters, John C., Ed. – 1985
This monograph describes seven training programs at the graduate level that integrate research on child development and the formulation and implementation of policies affecting children and families. The major purpose of the descriptions is to illustrate the range as well as the commonalities among the elements of training programs in child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Hymel, Glenn M. – 1980
The potential of cooperative efforts between universities and local education agencies is examined and a model for facilitating school/university partnerships is presented. The model is based on cooperative experiences of the Center for Educational Improvement at Loyola University (LCEI), New Orleans, and public and parochial schools in the New…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationBlansdorf, Klaus, Ed. – 1983
The Institut fur die Padagogik der Naturwissenschaften (IPN) is the research institute for science education, with a national function in the Federal Republic of Germany. The IPN consists of biology education, chemistry education, physics education, educational science, research methodology/statistics, and administration/general services…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Cox, Roy, Ed. – 1979
The roles of cooperation and choice in higher education are discussed in papers compiled from the 1977 Annual Conference of the University Teaching Methods Unit of the University of London. Financial constraints, a movement away from narrow specialist courses, effectiveness of interdisciplinary courses, instructional innovations, and changes in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Role, College Students, Cooperative Programs
Kelly, Thomas E. – 1974
A selective review is presented of the most recent theoretical pronouncements and practical applications of the interdisciplinary approach that are of significance to foreign language teachers and learners. The central focus is on problems and solutions within the two broad areas of institutional structures and curricula. Fifteen conclusions and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Language Programs, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions
