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Peer reviewedWei, James – Chemical Engineering Education, 1988
Reviews the status of chemical engineering and the chemical industry in the United States. Identifies problem areas for engineers and proposes new directions for chemical engineering courses. Discusses the significance of these new directions for bachelor's degree programs. Proposes that the function of a bachelor's degree should be general…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Chemistry
Peer reviewedSheehan, Eugene P. – Teaching of Psychology, 1994
Describes a multimethod assessment of psychology student outcomes at the University of Northern Colorado. Nineteen goals and objectives for psychology majors were identified. Describes changes in the psychology program prompted by the assessment results. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedSiegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1997
Notes the trend of declining enrollments in undergraduate economic programs in the United States and discusses its impact. Although similar enrollment drops have occurred twice since World War II, this one arrives at a time of academic budget-cutting and a "soft" market for Ph.Ds. Includes statistics and tabular data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Declining Enrollment, Degrees (Academic), Departments
Download full textVolkwein, J. Fredericks; Valle, Sondra; Parmley, Kelli; Blose, Gary; Zhou, Ying – 2000
This study examined factors that affect student learning and growth in four student populations: seniors who began as freshmen immediately after high school, students who transferred from two-year colleges, students who transferred from four-year colleges, and students who entered Bachelor of Arts programs after military service or work. The data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Bachelors Degrees, Cognitive Development
Walsh, Timothy A. – 2000
This study used publicly available information to identify institutional controllable variables that influence graduation rate and to group colleges using these factors. The dependent variable for the correlation analysis was the six-year graduation rate of the fall 1993 freshman cohort (as reported by US News and World Report) at more than 1,400…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Environment, College Graduates, Colleges
Judd, R. Bruce – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted to determine the value of an Associate in Arts (AA) degree to 2,810 community college graduates from 5 Florida schools 8 years following graduation. By cross-matching the graduates social security numbers with both the State University System Student Data Course File and the Department of Unemployment Compensation…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedMesser, Wayne S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Examines the catalog descriptions of 42 undergraduate psychology programs in North Carolina. Reveals that minimum introductory and methodological requirements consists of one-term introductory, statistics, and experimental design courses. A required integrated experience was most often a history and systems course or senior seminar. This is…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Course Content
