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Peer reviewedFormicola, Allan J. – Journal of Dental Education, 1993
This paper identifies two trends seen as shaping the future of dentistry: (1) the position of dental schools within the university structure; and (2) the regulation of schools through accreditation and licensure. Concluding comments address how dentistry can serve the public through greater access to care. (GLR)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Dental Schools, Dentistry, Educational Trends
Prinvale, Jean Marie – 1989
Strategic planning is discussed as a viable, effective method for coping with change to help an institution achieve its goals. A nine-step model of strategic planning is presented, and the results of a critique of a planning process at a major western research university are described. The nine steps are to: develop a planning culture, planning…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, Educational Change, Educational Development
Peer reviewedShaughnessy, Mina – Journal of Basic Writing, 1998
Presents Mina Shaughnessy's 1976 speech, given at a time when great financial crisis threatened to result in the wholesale disestablishment of basic writing programs. Notes grave perils, and outlines some of the truths uncovered through the experience of Open Admissions in higher education, truths that are indestructible despite retrenchments and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Writing, Educational Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Download full textMatthewson, Claire – 1992
One of the most significant distance education developments within the Pacific region in recent years has been the diminishing quality and increasing inequality created by ad hoc competition. Four views of quality are relevant: (1) quality has no existence as an absolute, it is inseparable from context, always relative; (2) indicators for quality…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competition, Developing Nations, Distance Education
PDF pending restorationGaylord, Thomas A.; Rogers, Brian – 1988
The radical restructuring of Alaska's public higher education system, brought on by Alaska's 1986 economic collapse, is described. It is significant because it is the most dramatic general funding reduction to an entire state public higher education system since World War II. Six sections discuss the following: (1) introduction to the University…
Descriptors: Budgets, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Economics
Albright, Robert L.; Neely, George, Jr. – 1987
Two addresses presented at a conference of top administrators of traditionally black colleges are presented. In "The Clarion Call: Imperatives for the Pursuit of Excellence," Robert J. Albright discusses urgent issues in the survival and strengthening of historically black institutions. The paper begins by examining the significance of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Black Colleges, Case Studies, Change Strategies
