In 2018 the universities in the University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) embarked on the ambitious project of creating a collaborative Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), aiming to raise awareness of the concept of University Social Responsibility (USR), boost the visibility of the achievements and social impacts of its members, and promote…

This constructivist qualitative case study examined factors that assisted and impeded the expansion of City University of New York's (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) from 4,300 to 25,000 students between 2014-2018. The study consisted of open-ended interviews with 11 CUNY system and college leaders who directly led the work…

Over the past year, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have received a great deal of attention from the academic community and the media. The EUA Secretariat has followed the development of the MOOCs since the beginning of 2012, surveying discussion forums and publications, but also assessing the websites of MOOC providers and participating in…

Looks back at the innovations/tribulations that went into the making of Merit Network, Inc., Michigan's pioneering Internet provider. Today, Merit is serving as the GigaPoP organization for its two current Internet2 members, Michigan State University and University of Michigan, and will provision a vBNS connection for Wayne State University.…

This study inventories the urban activities of institutions of higher education in the Winston-Salem area and reports a significant series of social and economic indicators for nine urbanized areas in North Carolina. Part I consists of a series of excerpts from a collection of nine documents and reports concerned with development policy, planning…

Focuses on the State University of New York at Albany Education Consortium Task Group efforts to state the broad guidelines and concepts upon which business education teacher competencies necessary for certification are based. (TA)

To eliminate duplication of health education programs and more adequately distribute trained health workers, the Regional Technical Institute for Health Occupations (RTI) of the University of Alabama and 23 state 2-year colleges have developed a linkage program in which students attend a local junior college for one year, then transfer to the RTI…

Describes a project designed to explore, define and assess the capability of four-year colleges to work cooperatively with the community colleges in the planning and development of allied health programs. (DC)

Initial efforts to internationalize the curricula in two-year colleges in the Pacific Northwest were met with a number of barriers, including an unwillingness by four-year institutions to recognize the two-year college programs and implement revisions of their own programs, funding problems, and state-level skepticism of the need for international…

A consortium effort in Florida was evaluated for the period July 1, 1974 through June 30, 1977. Implemented in Florida's Sarasota County and Manatee County school districts, Manatee Junior College, and the University of South Florida, the project included three components (guidance, curriculum, and placement/follow-up), each functioning at four…

Two surveys were conducted to identify the essential characteristics of minority engineering programs and to provide summaries of ongoing minority programs in a broad sampling of engineering schools. The first surveyed colleges with the largest minority enrollments, including the 6 traditionally Black schools and 45 predominantly white schools.…