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Blankenship, Dianna; Jones, Irma; Lovett, Marvin – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2010
This paper reviews the need for grant writing skills within various types of organizations and the resulting proposal for including grant writing within business administration curriculum at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels. An introduction precedes the results of a survey regarding current grant writing courses within AACSB schools of…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Skill Development, Grantsmanship
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Bruce, Kim B.; Cupper, Robert D.; Scot Drysdale, Robert L. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
With the support of a grant from the Sloan Foundation, nine computer scientists from liberal arts colleges came together in October, 1984 to form the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium (LACS) and to create a model curriculum appropriate for liberal arts colleges. Over the years the membership has grown and changed, but the focus has remained…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Science, Consortia, Liberal Arts
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Roy, Dale; Borin, Paola; Kustra, Erika – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
What factors encourage and sustain enduring curriculum change at a typical North American university? Like many faculty members and groups working in teaching and learning centers, the authors have been concerned with understanding how curriculum change takes place in a university. Their group, the Centre for Leadership in Learning at McMaster…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, College Faculty, College Instruction
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Community College Journal, 1999
Presents the responses of Norman L. Fortenberry, Division Director of the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), and Bob Watson, immediate past director of DUE, to questions submitted by AACC regarding NSF's education programs, opportunities, and grant applications. DUE is the focal point of the National Science Foundation's agency-wide effort…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Opportunities
Ernst, Edward W.; Lohmann, Jack R. – Engineering Education, 1990
National Science Foundation support for instructional innovation in design curriculum is discussed. Programs that illustrate diverse approaches to teaching design are described. A list of programs given engineering curriculum development awards in 1988 and 1989 is provided. (CW)
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum Development, Design, Engineering Education
Pelletier, Stephen G., Ed. – Small Talk: Quarterly News from the Nation's Small Independent Colleges, 1986
A project to help small independent liberal arts colleges integrate technology and the liberal arts in the undergraduate curriculum is considered in this newsletter issue. The first two stages of this project on Technology and the Liberal Arts, which is sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, are described, along with the progress of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development
ACT, Inc., 2007
The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) is designed to provide assistance to low income students. The program provides discretionary grants for the purpose of increasing the readiness of low income students to attend and succeed in postsecondary education. The grants are up to six years in length and provide…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Grade 8
Kahn, Susan, Ed. – 1986
This document presents a profile of projects funded by the University of Wisconsin System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant program. Three hundred and five one-page abstracts of awards made by the program are provided that briefly summarize the original proposal and the latest results that have been drawn from the project director's reports…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
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DiLorenzo-Aiss, Janet; Dion, Paul – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1996
A Fordham University (New York) initiative to internationalize its undergraduate business curriculum is described. The curriculum development project, designed to both stem declining enrollment and make the curriculum more relevant to business needs, included student surveys, grant proposal preparation, assessment of local program competition,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Outcomes Assessment