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Keeling, Richard P. – Peer Review, 2000
Discussion of student health and the college campus clinic distinguishes between health and health care, considers campus health centers, and addresses issues of student health, noting that students health problems often blur the boundary between mental and physical. Sidebars offer excerpts from the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior…
Descriptors: Clinics, College Students, Health Facilities, Health Services
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Flinders, Steve – ELT Journal, 2001
Provides a wide-ranging survey review of business English materials. The review examines titles that have appeared, for the most part, since 1998. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Second Language Instruction
Rutledge, Michael L. – Bioscene, 2000
Determines whether the Doctor of Arts and the departmentalized Doctor of Education degrees in biology are successful in achieving their goals. Surveys graduates from two of the most active programs offering teaching doctorates in biology. (SAH)
Descriptors: Biology, College Instruction, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
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Schairer, Karen – Hispania, 1996
Evaluates three commercial computer-based language translation programs' translation of a university social sciences telephone survey from English to Spanish. The three programs, "Spanish Scholar,""Spanish Assistant," and "Spanish Amigo," were rated as unacceptable in their quality of translations by native and near-native Spanish speakers. (nine…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software Evaluation, Hypothesis Testing
Rodgers, Lawrence R. – ADE Bulletin, 2001
Discusses how chairs might use information from a survey documenting the types of support and compensation that chairs in the Association of Departments of English community receive to negotiate a compensation package that is best for them during their term of office but also takes into account such other considerations as opportunity costs…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Budgeting, Compensation (Remuneration), Department Heads
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Wright, Sharon – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2004
The author of this article is the Managing Director of School Works, a groundbreaking school design initiative working in collaboration with partners such as the Architecture Foundation, DfES, Demos, and schools. School Works is a not for profit company which works to link the design of secondary school buildings with their impact on the teaching,…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Building Design, Participation, Student Surveys
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Corwin, Stephen – Academic Questions, 2005
Readers of "AQ" may have noticed, as technology boomed and colleges proliferated in the twentieth century, that the meaning of liberal education changed fundamentally and quality suffered. To prepare a place for everyone, schools had to pervert their measurements of achievement. But now that accountabilty is the order of the day, reliable…
Descriptors: General Education, Surveys, Evaluation, Higher Education
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Kopyc, Sharon – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
While it is certain that there is a technology presence on all campuses, further investigation suggests that faculty use of teaching with technology is far from a universal phenomenon. Anecdotal reports from staff tell of low turnouts among faculty who claim that they have no time to invest in learning the necessary skills despite expensive…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Faculty Development, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Blanchard, Troy; Mathews, Todd L. – Social Forces, 2006
In this paper the authors test the hypothesis that local economic concentration is associated with decreased levels of civic participation. They define economic concentration as a social context in which a small number of corporate establishments or industries dominate a local economy. They argue that economic concentration leads to a monolithic…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Global Approach, Hypothesis Testing, Social Environment
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Zajonc, Arthur – Teachers College Record, 2006
The role of contemplative practice in adult education has a long history if one includes traditional monastic education in Asia and the West. Its use in American higher education is, however, more recent and more limited. Nonetheless, on the basis of evidence from surveys and conferences, a significant community of teachers exists at all levels of…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Metacognition, Consciousness Raising, Teaching Methods
Brint, Steven; Karabel, Jerome – 1989
Guided by a vision of an ideal educational system that is dedicated to the cultivation of a democratic citizenry, this monograph explores a number of questions about the growth and recent transformation of American junior colleges from liberal arts transfer institutions to providers of terminal vocational training. Chapter 1 examines the role of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, College Role, Community Colleges
Hawkins, Ann R. – 1994
While there has been a great deal of debate about enlarging the canon, less attention has been paid to how students respond to "new" literary figures such as Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, or to how instructors should incorporate them into an already cramped literature survey course. Instructors must consider some questions that…
Descriptors: Authors, Females, Feminism, Higher Education
Horn, Gary – 1994
A survey of all 38 current members of the (newly formed) National Educational Debate Association investigated why these directors opted to drop their Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) programs. Responses were received from 20 directors. The use of excessive speed in CEDA debate was mentioned as a reason for leaving CEDA by more of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication Problems, Debate, Debate Format
Ponton, Beatriz Calvo; Ganster, Paul; Leon-Garcia, Fernando; Marmolejo, Francisco – 1997
This document is intended to foster cross-border collaboration in higher education and includes three papers examining issues and concerns characteristic of the border states of the United States and Mexico. It also reports findings of a survey of institutional leaders at 38 postsecondary institutions in the U.S.-Mexico border states. The first…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cooperative Programs, Cultural Influences, Educational Trends
Turoff, Murray; Hiltz, Starr, Roxanne – 1986
This discussion of the potential for computerized conferencing as the first cost effective technology for the delivery of a classroom environment in a remote learning situation begins by comparing remote learning modes and reviewing various educational experiments that have used the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) during the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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