The Integrating Data Analysis (IDA) approach to undergraduate education developed by the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) has been embedded in the undergraduate sociology curriculum at Lehman College, The City University of New York (CUNY), since 2003. This study draws on student and…

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of Farmingdale State College. The conference theme for 2014 was:" Infusing Issues of Racial, Religious, and Sexuality Diversity Across the Undergraduate Curriculum." The Conference featured a keynote…

The present article uses Q-Method to uncover, what we refer to as, learning identities in an undergraduate core political science course. The term "learning identities" is employed to highlight the self-referential quality of the learning perspectives revealed in the Q-Sorting exercise. Drawing on a set of 41 objectivist statements…

RECOMMENDATIONS AND WORK PAPERS DEVELOPED DURING A 2-DAY CONFERENCE IN 1961 WERE REPORTED. RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE ON (1) THE USE OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR COLLEGE CLASSROOM, (2) THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE MAJOR, (3) COLLEGE TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS, (4) TIME NECESSARY FOR MASTERY OF THE BASIC SKILLS, (5) STUDY ABROAD, AND…

Basic writing has played a large role in the history and institutional identity of the City University of New York (CUNY). From the Open Admissions era of Mina Shaughnessy to the present day, "remedial courses" at CUNY have been revised in response to different colleges' missions, curricular initiatives, university policies, and public…

The modern college for women, evolving by rapid growth from recent simple beginnings to its present highly complex state, is unquestionably still in the process of development. A glance over the changes already accomplished brings conviction that the present situation is but a stage in the life history of a virile institution. That present…