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Council of Independent Colleges, 2022
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) received a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 2020 to explore the potential of open educational resources (OER) to reduce textbook costs for students at smaller and mid-sized independent colleges and universities, especially Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Small Colleges, Disproportionate Representation, Private Colleges
Pounds, Buzz R. – 2002
As the cry for accountability rises from students to teachers, to parents and administrators, college and university teacher education programs find increasingly difficult demands are made upon them to demonstrate that these programs do, in fact, produce competent teachers. Yet, these programs remain assaulted by overlapping accrediting agencies…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Case Studies, Scoring Rubrics
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1996
This paper, from the Proprietary Schools Advisory Committee, is an executive summary of reports on the productivity-quality efforts of nine Illinois proprietary institutions. For each school, productivity summaries are presented for instructional, public service, and research units as well as academic and administrative functions. Examples of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Educational Economics, Educational Improvement
Selbert, Daphne – 1990
This examination of the impact of technology on the educational role of small academic libraries focuses on the information access aspect of technology. Librarians at 26 colleges in Illinois with enrollments of under 3,000 students responded to a survey which measured the libraries' access to databases through online searching and the use of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Databases, Higher Education