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Scott, Robert A. – College Board Review, 1998
For the first time in 200 years there is no clearly acknowledged national purpose for higher education. Through fundamental questioning, educators can establish a curriculum to prepare students to set a new agenda, rejuvenating both colleges and society. This focus on questions is not meant to encourage slow pace but ensure that the right…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Role, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Scott, Robert A. – 1990
This speech presents strategies to encourage international and multi-cultural education on college campuses. Six areas are listed that offer opportunities to improve and support internationalizing the curriculum and the campus as well as offer leverage for institutional change. Next, the principles used for international and multi-cultural…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Scott, Robert A. – Business Officer, 1995
In a broad institutional planning exercise, Ramapo College (New Jersey) used charts to analyze the state of the college and brought in a theater and set designer to help assess the institutional context for its work. The technique has been used to explore organizational patterns in staff utilization, curriculum design and organization, space…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Curriculum, College Planning, Curriculum Design
Scott, Robert A. – 1980
A convocation address at St. Lawrence University, New York, considers the purpose of the curriculum, expectations of the curricula, and the promise that it represents. It is suggested that the curriculum comprises a set of experiences, most of which are organized as courses, selected to facilitate a student's progress toward defined educational…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Curriculum, College Faculty
Scott, Robert A. – College Board Review, 1981
It is suggested that the curriculum is comprised of a set of experiences, selected to facilitate a student's progress toward defined educational goals. The curriculum should be appropriate to the mission of the college as well as to the kinds of students enrolled. (MLW)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, College Role, College Students
Peer reviewedScott, Robert A.; Tobe, Dorothy Echols – Liberal Education, 1995
College students need to experience high expectations, through internal motivation or external encouragement, to be successful learners, and a healthy college or university community expects student participation in and sharing of leadership tasks. Goals for such expectations should be defined and communicated clearly through campus policy and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, College Curriculum, College Environment
Peer reviewedScott, Robert A. – Higher Education Management, 1994
Strategies used by Ramapo College of New Jersey for internationalizing its campus and programs are described in 6 broad areas: faculty development; curriculum development, including about 70 new courses or major revisions of existing courses; enhancement of language, computing, and telecommunications skills; experiential learning; multicultural…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Administration, College Curriculum, Computer Science
