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Download full textWest, Rinda; And Others – 1991
In 1989, Oakton Community College (OCC) in Des Plaines, Illinois, began developing an honors core seminar in the sciences. The course was to be an interdisciplinary, laboratory-based science and humanities seminar, designed to explore the nature, process, and methods of science and the place of science in society. Rather than mastering a body of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Core Curriculum, Course Content
Spelman Coll., Atlanta, GA. – 1983
The document presents 17 syllabi for undergraduate humanities courses treating black culture. This first volume of syllabi was prepared by participants in a 1981 Humanities Institute at Spelman College as part of an National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. The document is divided into two parts. Part one, the bulk of the document, is…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Art Appreciation, Black Culture
Hartle, Terry W.; Wabnick, Richard – 1983
Trends in the level of borrowing by graduate and professional students, and the capacity of students to repay their education debt are considered. In addition, sources of debt data and implications of this information for national student aid and data collection policy are addressed. Attention is also directed to levels of indebtedness between…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Data Collection, Debt (Financial), Doctoral Degrees
Warger, Cynthia, Ed. – 1990
The 18 papers in this collection describe approaches that practitioners and experts have found successful in using technology as a tool to improve learning. Individual chapters are: (1) "Where Do We Go Now That the Power's On?" (Frank Withrow); (2) "A Curriculum for the Information Age" (Mary Alice White); (3) "Developing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
Hurst, Darrell, Ed.; Jobin, Robert, Ed. – VCCA Journal, 1989
The first issue of this semi-annual journal features presentations and papers from the sixth Annual Virginia Community Colleges Association Convention held November 17-18, 1988, including the following: "Community College Mission: An Ideology Out of Balance," by Darrel Clowes and Bernard H. Levin; "The Bottom of the Blind Man's…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1984
A compilation of federal higher education laws is presented that covers: general higher education programs; Native American higher education; museums, arts and humanities, and the National Science Foundation; and assistance to specified institutions. The following legislation is included: Higher Education Act of 1965, Titles I, II, III, and IV;…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Buildings, College Libraries, Construction Programs
Smith, Joshua L. – 1985
A decade ago, California's community colleges were the nation's undisputed leaders of community college education--unparalleled in access, quality, diversity, and size. Today, these institutions are deeply concerned with inadequate and unstable funding, declining enrollments, skepticism about the quality of programs, and students' lack of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Faculty, College Planning, College Role
Chilcoat, George W. – 1984
Popular culture genres of the mid-nineteenth century--the anti-slavery almanac, dime novel, panorama, and propaganda play--provide secondary school teachers with an historical medium to help students understand the conditions of slavery. Following an introduction to the uses of these genres in teaching, separate sections contain historical…
Descriptors: American Studies, Black Culture, Black History, Cultural Activities
PDF pending restorationCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
A 7-day study mission by the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, to Moscow, Kiev, Bonn, and an interim stop in Athens is reported. The mission was designed to gather information regarding the current state of higher education, especially on financing and curriculum, in West Germany and the U.S.S.R. The delegation was especially…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Comparative Education, Cultural Activities
To Educate the People Consortium, Detroit, MI. – 1982
This working paper is an intermediary stage in the development of a new telecurriculum for the To Educate the People Consortium. Section 1 is an introduction to the process. Section 2 contains the outlines of 18 courses in the telecurriculum based on concept papers submitted by teams from the consortium. Each course is in the format of six 1-hour…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Blue Collar Occupations, College Programs
Lindquist, Victor R.; Endicott, Frank S. – 1983
Results of a 1983 survey on policy and practice in the employment of college graduates in 262 well-known business and industrial firms are presented. The number of companies hiring graduates in nine bachelors-level and five masters-level fields are specified for both 1983 and 1984, along with the number of graduates for each field and salary…
Descriptors: Business, Business Administration Education, Career Counseling, College Graduates
Sands, William A.; Abrahams, Norman M. – 1977
Interest scales designed to provide educational and vocational guidance to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy were developed from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. Three of the scales provided an index of similarity between a person's interests and the interests of previous graduates from each of the Academy's three academic areas:…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Engineering, Humanities
Slonecker, William G. – 1981
Many who believe in the value of the study of the humanities are faced with the problems of how to attract vocational students to humanities courses, maintain their interest in such courses so that they fulfill the general education requirements for graduation, and, if possible, generate an ongoing interest in the humanities. In response to these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Objectives, Courses
Atelsek, Frank J.; Andersen, Charles J. – 1982
The number of undergraduate credit hours taken in the sciences, engineering, and engineering technology, and in four major humanities fields (English, history, modern languages, and philosophy) for the fall semester, 1980-1981 was studied, based on a survey of 65 colleges and universities that are members of the American Council on Education's…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Credits, College Instruction, College Mathematics
Finer, Neal B. – 1981
Designed to be used as part of a comprehensive social studies program on Mexican culture, this two-volume manual, written in Spanish, offers an instructional package on Mexican culture, stressing an art-architecture perspective, which can be used at the secondary, college and adult levels. The teacher's guide, Volume I, includes a discussion of a…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness
