In 1972, the University of Southern California School of Engineering established a 4-channel interactive instructional television network. It was designed to allow employees of participating industries to take regular university science and engineering courses and special continuing education courses at or near their work locations. Final progress…

The handbook is comprised of eight chapters and nine appendixes which provide business management training and resource listings for rural women. Chapters cover aspects of financial planning, credit, recordkeeping, business regulations, personnel, federal taxes, estate planning, and property management. Appendixes include a will planning…

This report describes and analyzes the failure of an attempt to launch a series of off-campus graduate credit courses in transportation to update the skills of mid-career professionals. Based on an evaluative review of other programs and teaching methods, the following format was developed: (1) on-campus orientation and examination; (2) self-paced…

This paper outlines criteria for the award of certificates and associate in arts (A.A.), associate in science (A.S.), and associate in applied science (A.A.S.) degrees in Colorado community colleges. Certificate programs, regardless of their duration, are defined as those designed primarily to lead to employment immediately upon completion and…

Because of the nature of school district cash flows, there are opportunities for investing surplus cash and the necessity to borrow cash in deficit periods. The term structure of interest rates makes the manual determination of the optimal financial package impossible. In this research, an integer programming model of this cash management process…

Entries in this annotated bibliography are listed under five headings. (1) Sectarian Schools - Critical; this contains 30 citations from periodicals and "New York Times" articles, editorials, letters, and advertisements. (2) Sectarian Schools - Balanced; this contains 36 citations from periodicals and "New York Times" articles and letters. (3)…

THIS STUDY DESCRIBES A 1960 EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS BY STUDENT LEVEL AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY IN DETROIT. DIRECT COSTS OF INSTRUCTION WERE DETERMINED BY AMOUNT OF FACULTY TIME DEVOTED TO INSTRUCTION AND REPORTED AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FACULTY TIME. A COST PER CREDIT HOUR WAS OBTAINED BY STUDENT LEVEL. DATA WAS COMPUTERIZED. COMPUTER…

THE COLLEGE-LEVEL EXAMINATION PROGRAM WHICH STARTED IN 1965 AS A NEW ACTIVITY OF THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD HAS FIVE AIMS. THEY ARE TO GIVE A NATIONAL PROGRAM OF EXAMINATIONS TO EVALUATE NONTRADITIONAL COLLEGE-LEVEL EDUCATION INCLUDING INDEPENDENT STUDY AND CORRESPONDENCE WORK, TO STIMULATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TO BECOME MORE…

Guidelines are offered for college professors conducting a college course for credit to a group of teachers on-site in their school. The problems implicit in this situation are pointed out, and specific recommendations are made for overcoming them. (JD)

In 1975-76, 26 institutionally administered tests gave students at the University of Texas at Austin the chance to earn credits for 52 lower division courses in 15 departments: anthropology, biology, chemistry, communication, English, French, German, government, history, Latin, mathematics, physics, psychology, Russian, and Spanish. Results were…

This study is a comparative analysis of undergraduate credit courses in library instruction, taught by university librarians and offered by ten State University of New York (SUNY) institutions--Albany, Brockport, Buffalo, Environmental Science and Forestry, New Paltz, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Stony Brook, and Upstate Medical. Topics include a…

The student manual for high school level special needs students was prepared to provide deaf students with basic information about how to buy on credit. It gives the student the sense of establishing credit capacity by developing a spending plan based on individual needs, values and goals, and income. Two units cover the areas of: (1) buying…

All liberal arts courses at Macomb County Community College where teacher contact with students exceeded the hours for which students obtained academic credit were examined, and comparisons were made with five neighboring universities and eight neighboring community colleges. Macomb's practice of paying for additional teaching time out of general…

To ascertain the actual cost of an honors program for any given year at Alcorn State University, two methods were used: cost per student, and the cost per credit hour. The cost per student can be a misleading figure and that is particularly apparent when used in conjunction with the cost per credit hour. For example, in 1975-76 the cost per honor…

In an effort to investigate various methods used in awarding academic credit for nontraditional learning experiences, this study analyzed a 3-page questionnaire returned from 229 U.S. colleges and universities offering at least a bachelor's degree. The major portion of the schools responding were public institutions, located in the Midwest, with…