In expanding our minor in Professional and Public Writing (PPW), we drew on scholarship exploring tensions inherent in the field's efforts to understand and present itself as a cohesive, yet capacious, discipline. Missing from the scholarship are the voices of students. To fill this gap, we conducted focus group interviews with PPW students at…

The author proposes that science curriculums be altered from teaching specialized subject matter and that more time be devoted to applying the disciplines to practical problems as well as imparting competencies in inquiry and values and attitudes concerning evidence and argument, certainty and uncertainty. (BR)

This article describes the accelerated college level curriculum at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, a residential school for academically or artistically talented eleventh and twelfth graders. The curriculum combines a required core curriculum with specialized focus areas. Student perceptions of the curriculum are also…

This project was conducted to develop a strategic plan to improve the quality of the Master of Business Administration program at Dowling College (Oakdale, New York), focusing on the issue of specialization in the program, the importance of the curriculum in future careers, the quality of instruction, and the quality of college facilities and…