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Download full textSaupe, Joe L.; Long, Shawna – 1996
A study investigated the appropriateness of admissions standards used for transfer students to the University of Missouri-Columbia, by analyzing the relationship between several possible predictor variables (number of transfer credits, transfer grade point average, type of previous institution, type of associate degree earned) and targeted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria, Case Studies
Tomizawa, Sadatoshi – 1991
In recognition of a need in the Buffalo area, the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) established the Japanese Language and Culture Program for Business People and Students (JLCP) within the university's Center for Critical Languages. JLCP is a 3-year, 6-semester certificate program open to anyone with at least a high school…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Business Communication, College Faculty, College Second Language Programs
Eggly, Susan; Schubiner, Howard – 1991
A graduate level course offered to foreign medical graduates (FMGs) at Wayne State University in Michigan was developed after a needs assessment indicated the desirability of improving the speaking fluency, pronunciation, and cultural understanding of FMGs. It was found that weaknesses in those areas, which are not assessed in the Test of English…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Cultural Awareness, English for Special Purposes
Estler, Suzanne E.; Harris, Walter J. – 1998
This paper presents a case study of the initiation of a doctoral concentration in higher educational leadership at the University of Maine. The case study documents the perceptions of curricular needs defined by practitioners in the state, the resulting efforts to develop a field-sensitive curriculum, and the impact of the academic decision-making…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty, Curriculum Design
Hilmer, Michael J.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick – 1998
Using a model of rational student choice as its foundation, this study examined whether state policies toward higher education encourage junior colleges and universities to admit too many students. The optimal-size decisions of budget-maximizing junior colleges and universities were derived and compared to the optimal-size decisions of a social…
Descriptors: College Choice, Community Colleges, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
Rogers, Carmen Villegas; And Others – 1988
A state grant to the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville has allowed development of a proficiency-based curriculum for first- and second-year French and Spanish. Most of the effort to date has been preparation of the syllabus based on specified goals and objectives, or student outcomes, focusing on allowing…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design
Prewitt, Sidney A.; And Others – 1986
An economic model of the effects of colleges on their communities was developed. The Texas Input-Output Model was modified into a higher education budgetary model. Included were the positive benefits of tax savings and estimates of the net effect on various communities in which state-supported colleges and universities are located. The output…
Descriptors: Budgets, Business Cycles, Economic Climate, Employment Projections
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1988
Eight papers from the 1987 CAUSE conference's Track VII, Outstanding Applications, are presented. They include: "Image Databases in the University" (Reid Kaplan and Gordon Mathieson); "Using Information Technology for Travel Management at the University of Michigan" (Robert E. Russell and John C. Hufziger); "On-Line Access…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, College Administration, Databases
Greene, James E.; And Others – 1982
Factors contributing to the academic persistence of college students and those factors that may be amenable to institutional control were studied in 1980 at Georgia State University. The academic career of 4,481 students was studied for a 5-quarter period at this nonresidential, urban university. Multiple regression and multiple discriminant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Students, Commuter Colleges
Gardiner, John J. – 1985
Research environments of four leading universities were studied: University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley), Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University. Attention was directed to organizational responses for encouraging collaboration in research at these leading universities, as well as to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Environment, College Faculty, Cooperative Programs
Doucette, Donald S.; Teeter, Deborah J. – 1985
A comprehensive three-part examination of student mobility among the 19 community colleges and 6 state universities in Kansas was conducted in 1984. The study involved coordinated analyses of student databases at the universities to determine selected demographic and academic characteristics of transfer students for 10 semesters from fall 1979…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students
Overall, J. U.; Cooper, Terri L. – 1981
The question of whether students perceive full-time faculty as more effective than part-time faculty was studied near the end of each term during academic year 1979-80. Graduate business administration students at a comprehensive state university and a private research university evaluated the effectiveness of their courses and instructors.…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Educational Quality
Rosenfeld, Rachel A.; And Others – 1981
The extent to which students are well matched with the universities they attend was investigated. The outcome of the choice process was examined with cross-sectional data on students at two private (Northwestern and Chicago) and one public (Northeastern Illinois) Chicago metropolitan area universities. Between and within school variation in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Choice, College Environment, College Students
Eveslage, Sonja A. – 1980
This case study describes the introduction and consideration of a state board staff proposal that the more traditional Minnesota State Universities adopt external degree programs. A model for making practices congruent with policy decisions is presented. The process of examining the external degree proposal, beginning with the state board actions…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment
McComas, James D. – 1980
Future concerns that member institutions of the Southern Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities share and perspectives on academic leadership for the future are considered. Future concerns include implications of the trend to have an abbreviated university week, a tendency toward larger faculty workloads, the need for financial…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance
