Discusses how, with the number of adult students continuing to grow in the increasingly competitive education marketplace, many characteristics of adult learning programs provide insights about how entrepreneurialism can be valuable for the rest of the academy. (EV)

Achievement and competitiveness in women is examined within the new scholarship on women. Past research is reviewed and a new conceptualization of competitiveness is offered. Three tenets of the new scholarship on women identified in previous article by Greiner are described as having particular significance for understanding achievement and…

Basic guidelines for initiating and/or advancing a senior games program are described. Included are resources for further information and assistance. (IAH)

Summarizes a study exploring organizational growth in technology-based ventures. Characteristics of the founding top-management team, strategy, and environment are matched to the sales growth of newly founded semiconductor firms. Results show that the effects of the founding team and environment grew instead of fading with time. Includes 54…

Discusses pricing problems of public library service. The meaning of price in a library context is examined, including amount charged and patron's cost; components of price setting are described, including the impact of demand, cost, and competition; and library pricing strategies are suggested that should help achieve the library's goals. (13…

Discusses the instructional systems development (ISD) model which consists of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation; and concludes that a precontract phase should be included where standards can be specified. The need for this initial phase is considered in light of commercial vendors and the need to bid competitively. (LRW)

Considers the American Counseling Association's (ACA) position on noncompetition agreements between employers and employees in light of case law from other service professions. Concludes that ACA members are uninformed and available sources of information do not provide needed information. Proposes guidelines for responding to this issue.…

Retail prices of 16 different textbooks at 130 on-campus college and university bookstores are unrelated to the number of sellers, impediments to entry, or retail service cost differences. Evidence does not support accusations that monopoly bookstores charge higher prices than college bookstores facing off-campus competition. Retail textbook…

Analyzes the contrast between the two main paradigms of higher education internationalization: competition and cooperation. Addresses related questions about the role and position of continental European higher education compared to that of some Anglo-Saxon countries that are leading in the global higher education market. (EV)

Innovation theory suggests that distance education is a "killer application" that presents a significant advantage over prevailing technology. Compared with traditional universities, time and space independence gives distance learning a great advantage for students interested primarily in their education, professional training, and credentialing…

Examines trend toward more aggressive student recruiting strategies by colleges and universities, applying a model that assesses five competitive forces-cause and effect of competition, the expanding marketplace, substitute products, buyer power, and supplier power, and examines various strategies for dealing with these competitive forces, such as…

Tested hypothesis that children would compete more playing competitive games in tetrads than in dyads. Found that male target children competed more in tetrads than in dyads; female target children did not show different levels of competition based on group size. Based on a global measure of smiling, the emotional atmosphere was less positive in…

This article discusses the library referenda in 2004. Some of the trends that emerged included: dueling libraries in Rhode Island, big wins for big cities, erosion of voter support for libraries in the Illinois heartland matched with the emergence of library support in the Southwest and the re-upping of big California taxes.

The "Battle of the Books" program includes the competition of English classes against each other and each class has a designated team, which gets first chance at the questions, but can ask for help from the rest of the class. Most of the competitions included two or three teams battling the competition and the winning scores got higher at each…

By focusing on coaches' use of anticipatory and counterfactual regret messages, this investigation examined video footage (i.e., pre-game, halftime, and post-game speeches) of high school football coaches' interaction with their athletes during competition. Participants were 17 high school football coaches who were found to use a combination of…