Educational leadership program evolution naturally creates tensions among institutional, national, regional, departmental, practitioner, and student cultures. Learning that has occurred during University of South Florida's educational leadership program's change process will be shared as well as national survey documentation examining student…

Cites literature on shortened school days for first graders and suggests that such an approach has definite benefits. (JMB)

Survey of 36 United States educational leadership program efforts to create collaborative communities for part-time students. Finds, for example, that majority of programs use course sequencing and cohort grouping to create collaborative communities for part-time students. (Contains 40 references.) (PKP)

In January 2010, the General Assembly passed the Complete College Tennessee Act (CCTA), a comprehensive reform agenda that seeks to transform public higher education through changes in academic, fiscal and administrative policies at the state and institutional level. At the center of these reforms is the need for more Tennesseans to be better…

This report provides an annual look at the summer 2008, fall 2008 and spring 2009 terms' enrollment in categories such as time, location and demographics of the community college student population. The content and format of this report has been developed through a collaborative effort between the Wyoming Community College Commission and the…

The crucial issue in the rapid development of part-time degree level work will be the relationship between these new degrees and the existing qualifications. (EB)

The University of Oklahoma Advanced Program in Governmental Studies, providing "mid-career education for military personnel and government employees, includes the unique features of an intensive study session, directed reading, and research papers. (SE)

Survey responses from 22 of 100 British adult education institutions found adult students had a variety of motivations, both vocational and nonvocational, for participating in metal working courses. Access to resources and adequate course offerings was sometimes difficult for part-time students. (SK)

A convenience sample of MSW students responded to an Internet-based survey (N=2,289) retrospectively reporting their reasons for enrolling in a specific social work graduate program. Reponses indicate that MSW students who enroll in private graduate programs are younger and reported reputation-related and employment-related reasons for specific…

If non-completion rate is to be a useful performance indicator it must reflect the recent health of a course in a transparent and robust manner that enables comparisons to be made between groups of students and between courses of varied structures. For flexible degree programmes with varied attendance modes and multiple entry points, traditional…

Despite the proliferation of taught masters courses, the experiences of masters students in general have received comparatively little attention within the research literature, and the dissertation process in particular has not been investigated extensively. The present article focuses on the findings of detailed interviews with 15 professionals…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce some new functions achieved in a web-based multimedia courseware, which is developed by Flash software and used by part-time graduate students. Design/methodology/approach: The courseware uses Adobe Flash CS3 as its development software, which supports Actionscript language, FMS and FLV technology…