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Braid, Bernice, Ed.; Long, Ada, Ed. – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2010
The decade since publication of "Place as Text: Approaches to Active Learning" has seen an explosion of interest and productivity in the field of experiential education. This monograph presents a story of an experiment and a blueprint of sorts for anyone interested in enriching an existing program or willing to experiment with pedagogy…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Experiential Learning
Lang, Serge – 1981
In reaction to the 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate by Everett C. Ladd and Seymour Martin Lipset, Serge Lang began a file of letters expressing concern over and opposition to the study. The controversy began when Lang wrote a letter to the researchers expressing his opposition, with copies to members of the academic community,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Educational Research, Higher Education
Tight, Malcolm, Ed.; Mok, Ka Ho, Ed.; Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Morphew, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Higher Education, Political Science
Kemp, Donna, Ed. – 1984
The status of English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction in Canada's community colleges is assessed in this report. Following an introduction to the concerns of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) with regard to ESL education, results are presented from a nationwide survey focusing on ESL programs, students, and teachers;…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, English (Second Language)
Maruyama, Geoffrey; Moreno, Jose F.; Gudeman, Roxane Harvey; Marin, Patricia – 2000
This report contains three studies on diversity in college classrooms. Following a review of the historical background in the introduction, Part 1, "University Faculty Views about the Value of Diversity on Campus and in the Classroom," offers a discussion of various diversity issues, such as institutional and departmental values; effects…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, College Environment
Defore, Jesse J. – 1971
The papers and research reports comprising the ten chapters of this monograph were originally prepared as background information for a national study of engineering technology education in the United States. Chapter I briefly describes the historical and contemporary settings of engineering technology education. After Chapter II provides…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Certification, College Curriculum, College Faculty