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Competency-Based Education: Leadership Challenges
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Nodine, Thad; Johnstone, Sally M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
Competency-based education (CBE) refers to online and hybrid courses and programs that offer credit or degrees based on evidence of student learning, or competencies, rather than on the amount of time spent in a course. Students work at their own pace, receive personalized academic support, and demonstrate mastery as they progress through their…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Instructional Leadership, Individualized Instruction, Community Colleges
Manning the Ship
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Banerji, Shilpa – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Statistically and historically speaking, most women's studies departments are headed by women. So when Dr. David G. Allen, a psychosocial and community health professor at the University of Washington (UW), was appointed chair of that institution's women's studies department last summer, it ruffled a few feathers. Dr. Nancy J. Kenney, an associate…
Descriptors: Womens Studies, Males, Department Heads, College Faculty
NDEA FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPERVISORS AND DEPARTMENT CHAIRMEN (CENTRAL WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, JUNE 20 TO AUGUST 12, 1966). FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT.
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MCKIM, LESTER W. – 1966
THE PROGRAM OF ADVANCED TRAINING FOR 50 FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT CHAIRMEN AND CITY COORDINATORS WHO ATTENDED THE FIRST NDEA FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE IS DESCRIBED. HIGHLIGHTING THE UNIQUE FEATURE OF THE CURRICULUM WHICH WAS ITS ORGANIZATION AROUND TOPICS RATHER THAN COURSES, THE REPORT LISTS THE 40 LECTURE TOPICS, PRESENTED BY BOTH…
Descriptors: Administrators, Department Heads, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Enabling Family-Friendly Cultural Change
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Quinn, Kate; Yen, Joyce W.; Riskin, Eve A.; Lange, Sheila Edwards – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
Strategies to address the problem of work and family balance have begun emerging in recent years. Many American college and universities have begun to adopt this "family-friendly policies," such as tenure-clock extensions. Each of the policies to enable work and family balance, however, is situated within the broader academic culture.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Department Heads, College Faculty, Family Work Relationship
Selected Collective Bargaining Agreements of Washington Two-Year Colleges.
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National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1986
Seventeen collective bargaining agreements between the boards of trustees and faculty associations of selected community colleges in Washington are presented, representing contracts in effect in 1987. The following colleges are represented: Peninsula College, Olympic College, Skagit Valley College, Everett Community College, Shoreline Community…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Contracts
Foreign Language Instruction in Washington (State): A Report on a Survey of Foreign Language Teachers Conducted by a Committee of the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Fall 1980.
McKim, Lester W., Comp. – 1981
The report grows out of increasing concern for improving foreign language and international studies in United States schools. To gain an understanding of the state of foreign language instruction in Washington, a committee was organized to develop and process a survey of foreign language teachers in the state. The survey requests information about…
Descriptors: Community Support, Department Heads, Elective Courses, Elementary Secondary Education