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Download full textBW Associates, Berkeley, CA. – 1994
In 1993, the California Community Colleges' Commission on Innovation published recommendations for the colleges to accommodate more students, respond to growing student diversity, and provide students with more advanced education and skills for the future. Included in the report are estimates of cost and savings for implementation. Focusing on…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Cost Estimates, Educational Finance
BW Associates, Berkeley, CA. – 1992
Intended to provide background information and preliminary options for the California Community Colleges' Commission on Innovation, this document describes the principles of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and describes policy options for implementation in the state's community colleges. Following introductory materials, the paper recommends…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
Cornesky, Robert A. – 1993
This volume describes Total Quality Management (TQM) in the higher education classroom and guides college faculty in implementing TQM to improve their teaching. Chapter 1 introduces TQM and gives pointers on how to begin implementing it. Chapter 2 describes TQM approaches and principles including the Deming and Crosby approaches, describes the TQM…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods
Pfeifer, Gary C.; Carlson, Charles E. – 1993
Since 1987, Dutchess Community College (DCC), in New York, and IBM Corporation have been forging a partnership which revolves around the Manufacturing Technical Training School (MTTS), a program designed to enhance the skills and education of IBM's production workforce. MTTS's three-phase curriculum has evolved to include the changing training…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Gelin, Franklin – 1993
Discussions about whether to implement associate degrees in British Columbia (Canada) date back to the mid-1970's, with the debate focusing on transfer arrangements and the viability of community college diplomas. One of the first acts of the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, created in 1988, was the recommendation to create an…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, College Transfer Students
Pica, Leiden (Netherlands). – 1992
The Open Library Network (OBN) is intended to connect national and local university library systems in the Netherlands. OBN integrates existing automated library systems and procedures and brings services like catalog searching and document delivery to the desk of the library user. Project results can be grouped into four categories: (1) the new…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries, Integrated Library Systems
Taylor, Tracy A. – 1994
Military cutbacks by the Department of Defense will cause thousands of enlisted personnel and civilian workers in defense industries to lose their jobs and look toward other employment opportunities. To help ease this conversion for some displaced employees, the Department of Defense is sponsoring a program to help former servicepeople earn…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Titsworth, Tobie R.; Baum, James – 1993
The major negative factor to the full integration of televised instruction into the educational system has always been cost, either because of the initial investment or the time required to develop courseware. Resistance to change has always been and continues to be the greatest barrier to the use of all technologies in education. Countless…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Curriculum Development, Distance Education, Education Work Relationship
Goldberger, Susan; And Others – 1994
This technical assistance guide is written to help practitioners and policymakers involve large numbers of employers in providing high quality learning experiences in the workplace. Section I discusses the challenge of the school-to-work transition and guiding principles for new efforts. Section II focuses on strategies for recruiting and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employers
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
This combination project report/resource guide describes the Milwaukee Nontraditional Employment Training (NET) Project, launched in 1991 to improve access to nontraditional training (NTT) and well-paid jobs for women through the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) system. Milwaukee NET has helped JTPA administrators and program providers make the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Guidance, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Brown, Gerald R. – 1992
In this workshop, the concept of marketing was applied to school library media programs by examining the relationship between library media programs, the marketing plan, public relations (PR), and promotion. Reachable goals, targeting the audience, advertising, and motivation and commitment of the staff were also considered, and successful…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Relations, Learning Resources Centers
Rice, C.; And Others – 1993
This Kiwanis Club project kit contains ideas and instructions for implementing programs that meet local needs in the areas of maternal and infant health, child care and development, parenting, and safety and pediatric trauma. The kit begins with an overview that explains how to assess need and how to plan, implement, and evaluate a project. Tip…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Beginning Reading, Child Abuse, Child Development
Munro, John – 1994
This investigation monitored the perceived effectiveness of a professional development program, called Facilitating Effective Learning and Teaching, in improving teacher practice. The program assumes that improvement is likely when the participants understand and value the learning process and themselves as learners and teachers. Program…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Parkway School District, St. Louis, MO. – 1991
This practical guide and its supplement address the adult basic education (ABE)-Business/Industry partnership in all aspects. The guide considers the concerns of how to expand programs successfully into the workplace. The format of the guide conveys the following: the project approach to a particular area, the results of that approach, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Planning, Education Work Relationship
Koretz, Daniel; And Others – 1994
The 1992-93 school year saw the second statewide implementation of the Vermont portfolio-assessment program, and RAND continued its ongoing evaluation of the program's implementation, effects, and data quality. While the first year's study found evidence of the impact of the assessment program and low reliability of portfolio scoring, this year's…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Mathematics
