An examination of the role of the associate degree in community colleges in the United States is presented in this report, based on a review of the history of the degree; surveys of community colleges, major companies, educators, and professional associations; and the work of the National Task Force on the Redefinition of the Associate Degree.…

In 1985, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) adopted a standard requiring that journalism/mass communications students take a minimum of 90 semester hours in courses outside their major, with at least 65 hours in liberal arts and sciences. The term "liberal arts" defies precise definition,…

Discusses the field of broadcasting education and suggests improvements that should be made in higher education degree programs. Highlights include program elements common to all professional fields, such as ethics; use of appropriate technology; curriculum development; doctoral programs in communications; faculty recruitment and development;…

The purpose of this bulletin is to present to collegiate registrars, committees of admission, and State departments of public instruction such data about the institutions of higher education in Norway as will enable those officials and offices to form fairly accurate judgments of how higher training in Norway compares with that in the United…

This study aims to give essential facts regarding the development, general control, and administration of graduate work, including the principal standards, requirements, and practices that relate to the granting of degrees on the graduate level. In recent years, along with the expansion of graduate work in many of the older universities, a great…

Counseling pupils of high school age about foreign language programs fitted to their needs and abilities is somewhat more difficult than in the past, both because the objectives are different and because a thoroughgoing revision of language instruction is taking place at all levels of the school system. Guidance workers, teachers, principals, and…

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…

Nearly every State in the Union through the State university or the State board of education, has, after inspection, accredited secondary schools located within its borders. A number of them have also published lists of accredited higher institutions. Naturally there is considerable diversity of practice among the several States, and hence, in…

Numerous accounts of education in Denmark have been published in the United States but nearly all of them deal with rural and folk high schools and other special phases, to the neglect of the system of general training which is the basic, strong organization that forms the mainstay of Danish culture. This study of higher education in Denmark will…