The necessary ingredients for developing a successful developmental college reading program fall into three major divisions--the responsibilities of college presidents and deans to the reading program, the problems of establishing a strong foundation, and the development of a proper image. The major responsibility of college administrators is in…

An examination of honors courses in speech education provides the basis for this collection of articles by (1) Jack C. Gilbert, who justifies providing, through college honors courses, "the best education for the best students," (2) Owen Peterson, who explains the organization and taching of a college honors course in the fundamentals of speech,…

Weaknesses in the reading course background and the high turnover rate of many college reading specialists along with an increased demand for these people to help disadvantaged college youth led the author to develop a course and practicum for graduate students who wished to enter this field. The course included these topics: (1) philosophy and…

A number of evaluation techniques for college reading programs are described and discussed. The techniques indicated include (1) determining a clear definition of objectives and specific criterion tasks that are consistent with program objectives, (2) using standardized tests for describing group change, (3) analyzing academic achievement as shown…

Current freshman orientation practices among U.S. colleges and universities are described and comments upon the degree of concurrence between these practices and an evolving philosophy of freshman orientation are made. Letters requesting copies of orientation programs were sent to a random sample of 160 colleges and universities, divided equally…

The Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program at Hofstra University involves the participants in investigating the structure, claims, and methodologies of the natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and the psychological findings of Piagetian-oriented cognitive development studies. The Fellows in the program form groups to decide on research…

During the last ten years, educational theatre has evidenced a greater relevance to and a growing involvement in contemporary life. College theatre programs have become more professional, with some universities having developed their own companies or cooperative arrangements with nearby regional theatres. The variety of performance spaces in new…

This paper defines student development as a concept, not a program. It provides four organizational models for student development: (1) the single program where all staff are assigned the same responsibility and carry out that responsibility in ways which are quite similar; (2) the program where two or three people are assigned the responsibility…

This study is concerned with the use of the Delphi technique to generate and refine a set of standards for measuring the quality of California community college journalism programs. Thirty-six journalists were preselected to serve on the Delphi panel. They were equally divided among two-year journalism educators, four-year journalism professors,…

As a means of arguing the conviction that the teaching of imaginative literature in composition classes may prove an invaluable tool for the survival of human dignity, the following remarks were circulated among English department members. Although the relatively intangible benefits of literature and the subtlety of its processes make it more…

The Regents Testing Program of the University of Georgia system establishes minimal standards of literacy for graduation from any of the 30 institutions in the system. The testing covers language skills basic to all of the academic areas, and instructors in the composition courses must follow a prescribed syllabus that requires a certain number of…

The purpose of this study was to collect information about the graduate degree program in reading at Montclair State College, the graduates' professional and educational involvement, and graduates' perception and assessment of the level of attainment of the program objectives. Questionnaires were sent to 42 master's graduates from the graduate…

This directory of engineering college research and graduate study is designed to promote the cause of graduate study in engineering by setting forth admission requirements, faculty, enrollments, degrees, fields of advanced study, appointments available to graduate students, and other data. It also presents information on engineering colleges and…

The purpose of the exploratory survey reported here is to identify and describe some of the existing programs and activities at UCLA that are directed toward and related to community colleges and, to a lesser extent, to note other developments at UCLA that might have relevance for two-year colleges. The report is divided into six sections.…

A consideration of reading potentials could produce a more balanced outlook concerning the future of reading in our society. In working with students on the improvement of reading, we find that comprehension problems are often related to attitudes about language, facts, and accuracy that are opposed to the requirements of the learning situation.…