Schools can help students understand moral issues, generate social change, and prepare for the future by combining dialogue and inquiry methods in moral education programs. Based upon the educational philosophy of John Dewey, the dialogue-inquiry method is interpreted to include a process whereby two or more persons reveal their feelings and…

A three-year program was conducted at St. Olaf College to develop new awareness and sensitivity toward changing roles of women and men among a variety of audiences including students, faculty, administrators, spouses of faculty, and parents. The major components of the program were (1) a Career Advisory Panel of ten women successful in…

Six papers are presented from an American Educational Research Association symposium. The symposium explored the kind of research needed for increasing understanding of college and university faculty and examined the manner in which different scholarly techniques can contribute. The symposium objective was to open for discussion four modes for…

Although progress has been made in combatting the most visible and easily controlled forms of pollution (exhaust, industrial waste, sewage, etc.), other pollutants have been largely ignored. Pollutants which are uncontrolled and which are increasingly recognized as dangerous include carbon dioxide, toxic substances such as dioxin, mirex, lindane,…

Project MAVE (Model for Articulated Vocational Education) was initiated to provide curriculum and program sequencing and continuity to students progressing from elementary to secondary to community college levels. Information gathered from surveys, interviews, site visitations, conferences, and literature review led to the conclusion that…

Findings are presented from the third year of the demonstration of the Guidance Information System (GIS), a computer-based information delivery system providing occupational, two-year college, four-year college, and financial aid information to students in two-year colleges in New York. Conclusions, based on experiences with seven colleges during…

Biculturalism is considered a necessary curricular component in bilingual education. In the attempt to meet this challenge, schools often adopt a combination of cultural curriculum models currently available. While these models have intellectual advantages, they lack inclusion of affective considerations. The bicultural approach, on the other…

Essays are collected on faculty development programs that are felt to have positively affected both the institutions and individual faculty members. They include: Faculty Development: Promises, Realities and Needs (William C. Nelsen, Michael E. Siegel); Improving the Scholarly Climate on Campus through a Program of Small Grants (David Marker);…

Financial aid in American higher education is discussed with a primary focus on undergraduate education. Some major issues pertaining to public policy and pricing in higher education are considered, and the practice of subsidizing students, with special attention to the role of the federal government, is briefly reviewed. Information regarding…

Part of a long-range planning process for Vancouver Community College (VCC), this report describes the college's service district and its student population and provides a basis for a projection of the college's enrollment from 1981 through 1986. After introductory material identifying the role of the Market Research Task Force within VCC's…

The need for including job entry application skills training in vocational curricula is pointed to by occasions when "A-students" fail to compete successfully in the job market and survey results that reveal that 50% of the reasons why employers reject applicants are related to the job application process. These skills, taught by the vocational…

This master plan for Whatcom Community College (WCC) is intended to communicate the purposes and direction of the College to its clientele and to provide WCC personnel with guidelines for developing activities which will accomplish the purposes and move the College in that direction. The first chapter traces the history of WCC, describes WCC's…

In an effort to gather information needed in the development of a five-year plan (1980-1985), Central Arizona College (CAC) conducted a survey in 1979 to determine: (1) the future educational needs of area high school students; (2) the courses, programs, and services desired by permanent area residents; (3) the training needs of area businesses;…

This statement explains the need for private financial support of state colleges and universities, and suggests that such support makes the difference between adequacy and excellence in higher education. Private support makes available scholarships and loans, increases the distinguished faculty through endowed chairs, builds special facilities,…

Papers and summaries of discussions from an international seminar on higher education in Southeast Asia in the next decade are presented. The seminar had the following three principal objectives: (1) to critically examine the state of higher education in Southeast Asia against socioeconomic and political realities; (2) to discuss problems and…