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Literacy Assistance Center, New York, NY. – 1986
Following an introduction that states the Adult Literacy Initiative's objectives for fiscal year 1985, this final report presents the bulk of its information in sections on (1) the literacy services of the City University of New York, community-based organizations, and the New York City Board of Education; and (2) the literacy services of the New…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Council for Aid to Education, New York, NY. – 1989
The 29th edition of a publication featuring statistics on voluntary support of education is presented. Three sections have the following titles: (1) "Colleges and Universities" (including national estimates of expenditures and voluntary support, and survey results noting voluntary support by type of institution, voluntary support by source,…
Descriptors: Alumni, Colleges, Corporate Support, Donors
California State Univ., Chico. – 1989
The Freshman General Studies Thematic Program (GST) at California State University, Chico was established in 1973 to create a general education program for freshmen and to give faculty the opportunity to explore innovative teaching methods. What resulted was a 33-unit, year-long interdisciplinary course for 36 well-motivated, well-prepared…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment
Towne, Violet A. – 1990
The collaboration between the continuing education arm of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome and the New York Association for Long Term Care Administrators in the design, development and delivery of educational programs for nursing home and adult home administrators in New York State is reported. Program content…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Agency Role, Contracts, Cooperative Programs
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis. – 1989
In response to a 1989 legislative mandate urging all Indiana state universities and Indiana Vocational Technical College (IVTC) to facilitate the transfer of credits, this paper presents a proposal for a study to determine how well the institutions are complying with the wishes of the general assembly. The paper presents background on the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Cepeda, Rita – 1991
In 1988, Assembly Bill (AB) 1725 directed the governing boards of the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and the California Community Colleges to jointly develop, maintain, disseminate, and adopt a common core curriculum in general education for the purpose of facilitating student transfer between institutions.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Governing Councils, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
James, Olive C. R., Ed.; Matson, Hollis N., Ed. – 1990
A survey of 124 San Francisco State University (SFSU) faculty was conducted in Fall 1989 to assess their attitudes, observations, and experiences concerning human relations at SFSU. This report provides frequency distributions for each of the 37 items on the survey questionnaire. The questionnaire focused on: treatment of various racial/ethnic…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Cultural Differences
Shearon, Ronald W.; Brownlee, Irene A. – 1990
Over the past 25 years, five large-scale research studies of community college students have been conducted in North Carolina, involving cooperation between Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges. The different research strategies employed in these studies can be seen as taking one…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Broyles, Susan G. – 1990
Statistics collected during the 1989-90 school year are provided concerning the tuition and fees, and the room and board charges required of full-time students at nearly 4,000 colleges within the United States. The report is intended to provide an indication of what a typical student should expect to pay to attend college and is designed for…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Colleges, Expenditure per Student, Higher Education
Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1990
Information, analysis, and commentary are presented in a report that examines the progress and difficulties that states are having in assuming more of a moral and practical leadership role in achieving equity in higher education among minorities. The report discusses the fundamental dilemma states face in trying to foster greater institutional…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Civil Rights, Demography, Educational Change
Levine, Judith R., Ed.; Feist, Stanley C., Ed. – 1990
The 17 papers in this compilation were selected from 29 presentations given at the conference. The collection includes the following papers: (1) "Does Classroom Context Affect Examination Performance?" by Debra Elliot, Toni Strand, and David Hothersall; (2) "Accent on Abilities: Empowering the Learner by Integrating Teaching, Learning, &…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students, Community Colleges
Harris, R. Carl; Harris, Melanie F. – 1990
The collaboration of universities and schools/school districts has often been proposed as an effective force for reviewing the quality of the schools and the education of the educators. A study of a workshop that was a major collaborative event in an ongoing university-schools partnership illustrated that symbiotic and organic cooperation is…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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Sternad, Jeanne; And Others – 1990
The Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center is a consortium comprising the College of Education at Cleveland State University, Ohio, and 35 local school districts and educational agencies in northeastern Ohio. The principal mission of the Center is to provide quality staff development programs to teachers and administrators from its…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Consortia, Consultation Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Olsen, Scott A. – 1990
A study examined the relationship between Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) critical thinking test scores and the extent to which students met core general education course requirements at Northeast Missouri State University (NMSU). Data used in the study were collected in required sophomore examinations as part of an…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Curriculum, College Outcomes Assessment, College Programs
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis. – 1989
The study reported in this document tracked a cohort of Indiana freshmen (about 47,000) with reported majors and categorized them as associate and baccalaureate, resident and nonresident, and part-time and full-time students. The objective to determine how these students fared in the course of the 4 years examined (fiscal years 1985-88). Included…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Students, Dropouts
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