The economic costs and benefits of educating foreign students in U.S. public and private colleges are estimated. U.S. costs of educating foreign students consist primarily of: (1) direct educational costs, (2) cost of the foreign students who receive their maintenance allowance from U.S. sources, (3) travel costs of those foreign students whose…

This document contains the course syllabus and 12 independent practice modules for an introductory college algebra course that requires some previous knowledge of algebra and the ability to work at a rapid pace. Topics include the basic operations with signed integers; fractions; decimals; literal expressions; algebraic fractions; radicals;…

The use of auxiliary personnel, which includes paraprofessionals, volunteers, and peer- and cross-peer tutors, has become prevalent in special education programs. Teacher education programs need to focus on the skills required by teachers to utilize these assistants appropriately and effectively. This paper outlines one method for incorporating an…

This paper argues that current and impending changes in the media industries in Britain, France, and Belgium will stimulate a more positive relationship between these industries and undergraduate communication studies. Topics discussed include: (1) the attitudes of both the industry and academic researchers toward research and its relationship…

The Conference on English and Mathematics brought together 100 faculty members from the California Community Colleges and the California State University to address such topics as curricular standards; admission, placement, and exit testing; improvement of transition from upper- to lower-division study; and the integration of English and…

This document consists of volumes 1-9 of the Mathematics Association of America's (MAA) Placement Test Program Newsletter. The MAA is the professional association primarily concerned with undergraduate education in mathematics. It has responded to the increasingly difficult problem of placing freshmen students in mathematics courses by developing…

This study was designed to determine the level of support among Saddleback College (California) students and faculty for maintaining the current exclusivity of the Mathematics Department in certifying student competence in mathematics as required for the associate degree. The study also identified current practices used by California community…

A study of the quality of undergraduate education at Arizona's three public universities is presented as a working paper in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. The honors programs at each university are reviewed and evaluated, with recommendations made for improving the…

Following the early success of its inclusion of languages in the master's-level business administration curriculum, Baylor University began to emphasize foreign language study more heavily in its undergraduate business administration program. The revised program, to be fully implemented in 1989, encourages students to choose 11 hours of language…

This document presents the observations and opinions of a delegation of North American mathematics educators who visited the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the Chinese Mathematical Society to discuss with Chinese mathematics teachers issues of mutual interest about university mathematics education. The delegation visited six…

The state-of-the-art of financial analysis for academic units within institutions of higher education is evaluated with attention directed to: how the cost of an academic unit is determined, how revenue is identified with academic units, how costs are analyzed, how revenues and expenditures are projected, and how the financial efficiency of an…

This document is designed to help the user recognize problems which can be solved by use of the exponential function, to show a wide variety of such problems, and to teach how to actually solve them. The material is divided into five individual units, numbered and labeled as follows: 84-Recognition of Problems Solved by Exponential Functions;…

This document looks at specific applications of calculus to engineering. It is noted that for an automobile traveling at constant speed, the mathematical relationship between the directional heading and the angular deflection of the steering wheel can be calculated with respect to time. An analysis is presented which derives the relationship from…

The undergraduate curricula of 10 San Francisco Bay Area colleges were evaluated to determine how students are being prepared for an increasingly internationalized world. The Higher Education Foreign Language and International Studies Survey (included as an appendix to this study) was distributed to each institution in the sample. To assess…

One of a series of resources for teaching sociology at the postsecondary level, this volume contains course aids and sample syllabi for courses in educational sociology. Material is divided into six sections. Section I contains background information about the guide. Section II describes the nature of sociology of education courses. The definition…