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Direct linkHankin, Joseph N. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1996
Outlines issues and concerns that should be addressed by graduate programs for community college leaders to help prepare them for the real world. Reviews concerns related to dealing with nontraditional students, developing meaningful curricula, learning conflict resolution skills, using technology to improve instruction, and solving other…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Educational Needs, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedClark, Burton R. – Higher Education, 1996
While most comparative higher education research focuses on the transition from elite to mass education, two other aspects deserve study: substantive academic growth, with roots in the research imperative and the dynamics of disciplines; and innovative university organization, a concern among practitioners as universities seek greater capacity for…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedTownsend, Barbara K.; Wiese, Michael – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1990
Describes a survey of selected community college presidents, deans of academic affairs, and deans of student affairs regarding the content and value of the higher education doctorate. Reports greater support for the degree as a qualifying credential for presidential, management, and student affairs positions than for academic affairs positions.…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Qualifications, College Administration
Peer reviewedDavis, William E.; Minnis, Douglas L. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
In the University of California (Davis) Program in College Teaching, graduate teaching assistants develop and fulfill contractual agreements for faculty-guided investigations into their disciplines, with supporting individualized activities about practices and issues of college teaching. Aspects of the program's development and effectiveness are…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Development, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Download full textGroff, Warren H. – 1985
The ultimate goal of graduate education is to design programs of preparation to promote improvement in the quality of education and training services that are provided in a variety of different contexts. In the 1960s, Nova University developed field-based doctoral programs as a strategy to prepare individuals to become agents of change in the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change
Stage, Frances K. – 1987
The literature on the development of college students is discussed, and recommendations are offered for developing a course on student development theory and research. The following observations about the literature are considered: (1) the literature on the college student is actually two separate literatures, one focused on outcomes and the other…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Students, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages
Cooper, Jack H. – 1986
Problems and perspectives about the college professoriate are discussed. Attention is directed to: organization and location of graduate programs; enrollment declines and fluctuation; scholarly activities of professors; consulting and field work; and teaching. One of the recent developments of higher education as a field of study has been that…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Programs, Consultants
Shorr, Marilyn, Comp.; Hoogstra, Lisa, Comp. – 1984
A directory of graduate-level programs and centers for the study of higher education and college faculty in these programs is presented. Individual programs and centers are listed in alphabetical order and include the name of the program head, mailing address, and telephone number. An alphabetical listing of full-time faculty, their institutional…
Descriptors: Departments, Doctoral Programs, Education Courses, Full Time Faculty
Geiger, Roger L. – 1976
The traditional European university is now extinct. The conditions in higher education that have succeeded it are highly unstable and therefore transitory, and its eventual replacement is now dimly perceptible on the horizon. The European university is of course an abstraction, meant to approximate the attributes of higher education in Germany,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Foreign Countries
Brown, George H. – 1978
The representation of women among bachelor's degree recipients in the academic years 1970-71 and 1975-76 is compared and data on the intervening years are appended. The total number of bachelor's degrees awarded in the United States in 1971 was 846,000, of which about 43 percent were awarded to women. In 1976, the total was 934,000, and the number…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Trends
Katsinas, Stephen G.; Kempner, Ken – National Council of Instructional Administrators, 2005
The primary focus of this research report is on university-based degree programs that prepare individuals for leadership positions in community colleges. Issues related to the preparation and development of faculty are also an important component of the personnel challenges facing community colleges. To bring greater focus to this discussion, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Leadership Training, Faculty Development, Financial Support
Peer reviewedNeave, Guy – Higher Education, 1996
Suggests that the study of contemporary history can provide a vehicle for testing the validity of theories developed in higher education policy studies. Greater attention to the cultural and historic contexts of higher education, particularly in cross-national studies, is urged. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
Miller, Michael T.; And Others – 1995
This 1993 investigation examined how centers and institutes established to study higher education and enhance student learning function, their organizational structure, and their activities. Using an open-ended questionnaire, the heads or directors of 25 such centers were asked to provide responses to questions on the organizational status and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Research, Financial Support, Governance
Nelson, Glenn M., Comp.; Crosson, Patricia H., Comp. – 1984
A compilation of descriptions of graduate programs in the field of higher education is presented as prepared by the ASHE Committee on Curriculum, Instruction and Learning. The report is based on a survey of the 92 directors of masters and doctoral programs in higher education in the United States and Canada. For each of 65 respondents, one-page…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic)
Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). Group for the Study of Higher Education and Research Policy. – 1987
The contributions of various disciplines to the field of higher education and research studies are discussed in 10 seminar papers, which also review Burton R. Clark's work, "The Higher Education System: Academic Organization in Cross-National Perspective." Titles and authors are as follows: "Internal and External Regulatives in…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Science, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
