Presents the rationale and requirements for Idaho State University's newly-instituted Doctor of Arts degree in English. (RD)

The Office of Personnel Management should designate a new professional series for hiring individuals in outdoor recreational management. A new professional series would help set a standard for professionals with training in both resource management and the social sciences. Recommended educational requirements for the series include: (1) natural…

Directors of 100 library schools, both accredited and unaccredited, answered questionnaires designed to determine their attitudes toward library curricula in the areas of: theory versus applications, thesis requirements, library fieldwork, comprehensive examinations, course requirements, non-print materials, intellectual freedom and censorship,…

Four factors--the perceived needs of the faculty, the perceived needs of the market, the competition among institutions, and the competition within institutions--represent the major forces behind the development of new academic programs. Two case studies in Missouri and New England are described. (MLW)

This paper explores the implications for assessment of embedding qualifications from the vocational education and training (VET) sector within university qualifications. As VET qualifications are now all competency based, assessment in the two sectors is quite different, since universities have generally eschewed competency-based training and…

Designed to clarify the function of the Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree, this report lists and explains criteria for the degree as a means of enhancing the potential of the AAS to serve as a national employment credential and as the curricular foundation for the occupational mission of the community, technical, and junior colleges. The…

To prepare college graduates for careers in the magazine publishing industry, a magazine curriculum requires a complex array of disparate courses. Small colleges offer the best environment for reformatting magazine education. In order for a magazine curriculum to develop, grow, and thrive it must have access to students with specialized interests…

Essays by four community college chief executive officers (i.e., Michael E. Crawford, Donald L. Newport, Mary M. Norman, and Donald G. Phelps) suggest ways in which community colleges can implement programs and practices that will improve the position of the associate degree and the community college in American higher education. (DMM)

In the fall of 1969, Hiram College launched a new curriculum. All the traditional discipline-oriented graduation requirements were eliminated in favor of several types of interdisciplinary programs and more student electives. The focus of the Hiram curriculum is on the freshman year. As a result of these changes, a task force was appointed to…

Arguments for and against extension of dental education to a mandatory five years because of current overcrowding of dental curriculum are presented in debate form. Affirmative arguments center on the inefficacy of restructuring existing curricula, and arguments against focus on current curricular inefficiency, costs, and other practical…

The status of formal ethics instruction was assessed by a dental school survey and literature review. Although three-fourths of respondents indicated commitment to teaching ethics, there was no agreement about what is being taught as ethics. Issues of curriculum content, teaching methods, degree requirements, and faculty are discussed. (Author/MSE)

Higher education can resist the need to open the U.S. mind to greater cultural diversity by ignoring the changing ethnic composition of student bodies and larger society, or realize this opportunity to revitalize the social sciences and humanities with a new sense of purpose and more inclusive definition of knowledge. (MSE)

In this study, the authors update a previous study of terminal master's degree in economics programs to determine whether changes in the inputs or the desired outcomes of master's degree programs have occurred during the decade between the two studies. There are now fewer programs, and there has been a reduction in rigor in terms of degree…

A description is provided of the associate degree nursing curriculum at a hypothetical community college located in a residential community in California. After providing background on the college and a rationale for the provision of nursing education at the institution, the goals and objectives of the college and its department of nursing are…