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Direct linkEagan, David J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1992
The University of Wisconsin (Madison) has developed a pilot Environmental Stewardship Initiative, a mechanism for incorporating environmental stewardship into the university's operations and curriculum. The complex and dynamic campus ecosystem serves as a model community and field station for student research on natural history and institutional…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, College Role, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Research
Download full textCouncil of Graduate Schools in the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1990
The lack of a planned, disciplined, and well-supervised approach to research which frustrates a student's timely completion of a Ph.D. program is addressed. Some practices are discussed which, if adopted, could lead many more students to complete their Ph.D. expeditiously. A framework is presented that is intended to help the student and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study
Porter, John R. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1992
With resource-based learning projects, college students at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science develop a better sense of the information resources available, the nature of scientific literature, and the characteristics of scientific writing. Faculty motivations, benefits, and disappointments with this approach are addressed.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students, Educational Strategies
