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Download full textPounds, Buzz R. – 2002
As the cry for accountability rises from students to teachers, to parents and administrators, college and university teacher education programs find increasingly difficult demands are made upon them to demonstrate that these programs do, in fact, produce competent teachers. Yet, these programs remain assaulted by overlapping accrediting agencies…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Case Studies, Scoring Rubrics
Peer reviewedAcademe: Bulletin of the AAUP, 1980
The sequence of events and implications of the disciplinary dismissal of three faculty members of Philander Smith College are discussed with relation to the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles. It is concluded that faculty rights were violated by the administration and governing board. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrative Policy, Case Studies, College Faculty
Lisensky, Robert P.; And Others – 1985
The need to integrate technology and liberal arts in the undergraduate curriculum is addressed in this collection of two articles and a bibliography. The monograph resulted from a project by the Council of Independent Colleges on the response of the liberal arts college to technology. In "Technology and the Liberal Arts," Allan Pfnister considers…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, College Curriculum, Computers
Peer reviewedMarchese, Theodore J. – Liberal Education, 1988
The approaches taken by Alverno College, Clayton State College, DePaul University, James Madison University, Northeast Missouri State University, and Rhode Island College in using the results of student assessment productively are described. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Hitchman, James H. – 1981
The impact of the following private colleges in the Pacific Northwest is examined: Willamette University (Salem, Oregon), Pacific University (Forest Grove, Oregon), Linfield College (McMinnville, Oregon), Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon), Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington), University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington), Whitworth…
Descriptors: Alumni, Case Studies, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum
Habecker, Eugene B. – 1980
Issues related to reevaluation of tenure at "Exeter College," a fictitious small, private college, are examined. Based on analysis of financial resources, students and faculty ratios, and systematic effects of tenure at Exeter, a mandate for tenure reevaluation was established. The following areas were reviewed: the relationship between tenure and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Affirmative Action, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Direct linkBirney, Robert C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1993
An overview of the innovative curriculum and program design of Hampshire College (Massachusetts), a liberal arts college opened in 1970, looks at its educational philosophy, nontraditional curriculum structure, underlying economic assumptions, recordkeeping, administrative organization, employment policy, governance, and student life. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Curriculum, Contracts
