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LaDuca, Brian; Carroll, Charlie; Ausdenmoore, Adrienne; Keen, Justin – Christian Higher Education, 2020
This article provides an example of how the traditions and values that have long underpinned the work of Christian higher education are of particular relevance to how Christian universities might partner with communities to address critical 21st-century challenges in groundbreaking new ways. The University of Dayton's Catholic and Marianist…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Institutional Mission
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Fleisher, P. Jay; Wilson, Philo C. – Journal of Geological Education, 1975
Reports on an undergraduate earth science course for non-science majors structured around five-week minicourses. Evaluates student and teacher response to the program. (CP)
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Higher Education
Groves, David L.; And Others – Career Education Digest, 1975
The general conclusion of the study is that a lecture-demonstration in a minicourse format can be used with a group that has been pre-selected with regard to occupational interest. This combination of methods provides information concisely and allows "hands-on" learning reinforcement as well. (MW)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Demonstrations (Educational), Evaluation Methods
Dellow, Donald A.; And Others – 1985
Like most two-year colleges, Chipola Junior College has had to respond quickly to the impact of the microcomputer revolution. A demanding clientele of students and community members, a faculty and staff unprepared for microcomputer technology, and limited equipment resources dictated the rules of change. After it was determined that computer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Literacy, Computer Science, Faculty Development
Clackamas Community Coll., Oregon City, OR. – 1981
In late 1980, a retail sales training program was implemented at Clackamas Community College to meet the training needs of business tenants of the new Clackamas Town Center. The program consisted of 20 hours of intensified training in customer relations, sales, cashiering, job readiness, and interviewing. A total of 416 students completed the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, Distributive Education
Bean, Thomas W. – 1981
A year-long interdisciplinary project sought to develop professors' available repertoire of strategies for guiding students' independent learning from texts and developing students' ability to learn from texts with adjunct guide materials in a minicourse setting. Adjunct materials included such instructor devised aids as study questions, graphic…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Higher Education
Saskatchewan Univ., Saskatoon. Native Law Centre. – 1978
Through the efforts of the faculty of the College of Law of the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Saskatchewan Program of Legal Studies for Native People was established in 1973. In planning for the program, certain problems were considered: the number of persons of native ancestry able to meet the minimum requirement for admission to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Canada Natives, Cultural Background