The Native Studies curriculum has an important role to play in the development of meaningful community control for Native American education. Native Studies may legitimately take many forms and employ many methods; the essential element is that educators adopt a clear and consistent attitude toward Native Studies based on respect for Native people…

A study was undertaken to provide an opportunity for faculty from five small, independent colleges in Iowa to become familiar with current developments concerning general education programs to facilitate planning and evaluation of general education in the institutions. The participating colleges were Briar Cliff, Graceland, Marycrest, Simpson, and…

Drafting students from vocational/technical and high schools frequently repeat the same experiences and courses and work with the same instructional materials when they enroll in college engineering drawing, and architecture programs. In order to minimize needless repetition and address the problem of articulation between such schools and the…

The infusion of career education concepts into college and university courses is documented by this collection of twenty college course syllabi developed to facilitate the ongoing efforts of Oregon's colleges and universities in preparing educational personnel for the development and conduct of career education activities. These twenty syllabi…

In the 1968-69 controversy over the foreign language requirement for the B.A. degree in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts of the University of Michigan, the College faculty chose a compromise solution to the policy in practice since 1954 of a required 4-semester study of a foreign language with placement testing. Policy alternatives…

This document includes summaries of 25 recent research projects in the area of community (junior) colleges undertaken by graduate students at Northern Illinois University. The topics of the projects were: student reactions to senior college; student values and choice of program; personality characteristics and attitudes of nursing students;…

This document discusses accountability and the 1999 strategic and action plans for the Wyoming Community College System (WCCS). The primary WCCS goal for 2000-2004 is to assure coordinated, efficient, and effective operations of the community college system. Program 1 of the action plan is to provide effective credit instructional programs for…

In order to assess the needs of agriculture (AG) education and ascertain the potential employment demand for pre-service and in-service training in agriculture over the next 5 years, Maui Community College (MCC) sent questionnaires to Molokai community businesses, inquiring about their agricultural labor demand. In December 1997, 68 questionnaires…

This collection of five essays examines the ways sociology, as a discipline, currently reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Scholarship and the Curriculum: The Study of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class," Margaret L. Anderson argues that the study of race, class, and gender has become…

This report provides empirical proof of a disturbing trend in higher education. Over the last several decades colleges and universities have substituted so-called "distribution requirements" for a solid core curriculum. Distribution requirements enable students freely to choose their general education courses, the courses outside their…

The last two decades have seen a rapid expansion of State colleges of agriculture in the United States. The enrollment has increased rapidly and this has meant a rapid development in the means for offering resident instruction. The courses of study have been passing through a process of evolution coincident with this growth. In general it is…

This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1896-97, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner of Education's Introduction and Part I covers the topics: (1) Education in Great Britain and Ireland; (2) Education in France; (3) Education in Denmark; (4) Education in Norway; (5) Education in Central…

On the basis of a belief in the legitimacy of alternative learning styles, the importance of intercultural broadening, and the global nature of international education, the Department of Secondary Education and Foundations at Eastern Illinois University developed a new course, called "Diversity of Schools and Societies." Course…

This paper reviews the history of undergraduate curriculum in the United States from the colonial period to the present, arguing that the drive for utility has been the main force shaping curricular trends. It discusses the purpose of early colonial colleges and their curricula, which emphasized Latin, Greek, Hebrew, ancient history, theology,…

This book addresses broad issues related to flexible learning in higher education and provides specific examples of how one institution of higher education is implementing more flexible patterns of teaching and learning. The Flexible Learning Initiative, established at Loughborough University of Technology in England, provides an environment which…