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Beem, Edgar Allen – Teacher Magazine, 2004
While "early college" programs designed for high-school-age students are beginning to proliferate nationwide, a small New England school has been successfully educating teens for nearly four decades. In this article, the author features Simon's Rock, a small liberal arts college located in the Great Barrington, Massachusetts, that has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, High School Students, College School Cooperation
Fox, Louis – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2007
Advanced information, communication, computation and collaboration technologies, known as "cyberinfrastructure," have become essential elements for research, education, and innovation in the 21st century. A major challenge confronting the United States today is how to ensure that all colleges and universities, including those that have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minority Groups, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Harbison, Philip W. – 1996
This paper presents a history of the Hiram College (Hiram, Ohio) library from 1950 to 1995. It highlights important events and decisions made in the construction and opening of the new library building on September 7, 1995 and shows how this achievement has revitalized the spirit and optimism of everyone involved. The paper also presents the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Buildings, Decision Making, Educational History
Zwier, Robert – 1995
A good college assessment program should include departmental level assessment to evaluate what students learn in their major field. Small colleges have unique opportunities and constraints in developing departmental assessment programs. Because of their size, small departments can use labor-intensive methods and have more opportunities for…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Educational Assessment, Faculty Development
Craig, Deborah – 1996
This paper analyzes the mission statement of a small liberal arts college: (1) to establish a rationale for examining a mission statement from a postmodern perspective, which will aid in the understanding of the context within which the mission statement and accompanying goals were developed and produced; (2) to clarify the multiple voices and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cluster Analysis, Conflict, Cultural Context
Derryberry, Bob R. – 1996
Department chairmanship responsibilities are becoming heavier in the face of the demands associated with issues that challenge academic communities at the close of the 20th century. A director of forensics is occupied with decisions about the forensics program's philosophy, to provide understanding and impetus for team and individual goals, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration, Cooperative Planning
EDUTECH Report, 1999
This document consists of 12 issues, an entire volume year, of the EDUTECH Report. The newsletter's purpose is to alert faculty and administrators to issues in educational technology. Each issue contains two feature articles, a page of news briefs, a preview of the upcoming issue, and a question and answer column. Most issues also contain brief…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Administration, Educational Technology
Buzza, Bonnie Wilson – 1989
One of the most significant activities undertaken by members of small college speech departments has been the development of the Essential Undergraduate Curriculum in Speech Communication at the Small College. This paper reviews six aspects of this curriculum: (1) the "statement of domain"; (2) iterdisciplinary aspects; (3) questions of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Haggard, Carrol – 1985
The small college communication curriculum must, by necessity, be more limited than that of the university. However, it can still fulfill the needs of its students while responding to external curriculum requirements, such as those of the institution, accrediting agencies, professional societies, and employers. Two approaches to curriculum…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Design
Fouts, Jeffrey T. – 1984
Guidelines have been developed for a consortium approach to teacher preparation in a small college that may need some expertise and access to teaching materials which can be provided by local school districts and other agencies. This approach to the design, management, and evaluation of the program offers the opportunity to involve the schools…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Consortia
Murray, Frances; Feitler, Fred C. – 1989
The ways in which current theories of leadership relate to perceptions of organizational effectiveness are examined in a study looking at these interactions and relevant demographic factors in 11 small, private, midwestern colleges. A model of transactional and transformational leadership proposed by Bass (1985) is investigated along with an…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education, Models
Overgaard, Herman, Ed. – 1974
The workshop was convened by the Social Science Research Council of Canada as part of its annual meeting. Its purpose was to explore the possible usefulness of a large-scale conference on the same topic. The three papers presented are included in the final report: (1) social science research needs of smaller Canadian universities (John T. Sears);…
Descriptors: Facilities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research
Hannaford, W. E., Jr. – 1979
This investigation of how ten small, private college libraries go about collecting books focuses on the degree of responsibility and control those libraries exercise over what is included in their collections. The findings and conclusions of the study are based upon interviews with library administrators and acquisitions librarians at Middlebury…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, College Libraries, Higher Education
Pilon, Daniel H. – 1977
A simple, flexible approach of planning for small colleges is presented after which action can be patterned. Alternative methods are described for carrying out the important activities found in most processes designed to generate a long-range institutional plan. A rationale for planning is offered along with a discussion of what planning can do…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bibliographies, College Administration, College Planning
McCann, Kevin – College Board Review, 1978
The author writes briefly of his experience as president of The Defiance College, a small college in danger of closing. He makes a plea for humane teaching and proposes that colleges losing students seek to enroll those past the age of 55 in residence courses designed to prepare them for their new stage in life. (JMD)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Environment, Declining Enrollment, Financial Problems