An emphasis on diversity is one of the greatest challenges in my teaching. Everyone, myself included, enters the course with a set of expectations for human behavior, and literature can be very disruptive of these expectations. International literature, for example, often disrupts the narrative expectations of readers who were trained by stories…

After initial hostility and skepticism to Open Universities, the critical response became more favorable. From 1971 onwards there was a tremendous amount of writing about the Open University, not only in British journals and newspapers but also abroad. This bibliography incorporates over 130 entries dealing with the Open University in Great…

Describes issues discussed at the Association of American University Presses, June 1986 meeting, as being divided between those interested in using the techniques of commercial publishers and those committed to publishing what is worthy. Chandler Grannis describes "New Directions for University Presses" and Doug Armato "The Power of…

This annotated bibliography consists of general citations regarding the state-higher education relationship up to 1972. Citations are listed in alphabetical order with brief annotations accompanying each entry. (MJM)

Clinical advocacy programs offer educational potential to the planning student and service to the community in a context somewhat broader than attending public hearings on issues that have either already been decided or offer no opportunity for meaningful input by planning students. More specifically defined advocate planning strategies have been…

Lists titles and authors of master's theses in progress at selected universities between 1984 and 1986. These schools submitted titles: Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical; Atlanta; Fisk; Howard; Meharry Medical; Morgan State; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical; North Carolina Central; Southern; and Baton Rouge. (KH)

In a discussion of the development of higher education in America, its European roots are traced to provide a historical perspective to some current issues. The paper examines the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment in relation to the influence that each of these historical periods had on the first colleges and universities in this…

Lists title, author, institution, and availability of 521 theses and 182 dissertations from 61 institutions in 15 subject areas. Notes the top master's subjects (nutrition, family relations, clothing, child development, home economics education) and doctoral subjects (family relations, nutrition, food science, home economics education, child…

Lists title, author, institution, and availability for 531 theses and 201 dissertations from 59 institutions on 15 subjects. Notes top master's subjects (nutrition, family relations, child development, food science, home economics education) and doctoral subjects (nutrition, family relations, food science, child development, consumer…

Thousand of books, monographs, proceedings, and articles have been published concerning colleges and universities in the United States. As guides to his extensive literature, many bibliographies in the field of higher education in general, or special aspects of it, have been prepared. These vary greatly in comprehensiveness, in recency, and in…

The directory of the Educational Film Library Association lists by state 16mm film collections in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Data supplied by the institutions provide the following information: institution in which the collection is located; complete mailing address; name and position of the person in charge of the…

For a nonthesis master's degree in social studies, many Canadian universities require that students do a major project or monograph. A bibliography of such projects done between 1971 and 1980 is provided. An analysis of the projects is also included. (RM)

This bibliography is comprised of materials gathered for the resource center at the 8th and 9th Cycle National Teacher Corps Conference, 1974. Materials were gathered from the following sources: (a) The Teacher Education Development Service Resource Center on Competency-Based Teacher Education (CBTE), School of Education, State University of New…

Geography papers comprise the items listed in this bibliography. The first, and major, section lists the "underground," or fugitive, publications of over 70 university departments of geography from Australia and New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, and a few other global areas. For each country, documents are listed by university.…

An annotated bibliography on universities in the Caribbean region for the period since World War II is presented. The focus is on access to universities. For book citations, each annotation contains the author's name, publication title, place of publication, publisher, date, and number of pages. Journal references consist of author, title of…