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Download full textFlorida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1990
The College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) is an examination of achievement in communication skills and mathematics that is mandated by state law for college students in community colleges and state universities in Florida as a requirement for an Associate's degree or for entry into upper-level courses. Higher CLAST standards went into effect…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Associate Degrees
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1992
The College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) is a mandated examination of the achievement of college students in communications skills and mathematics that must be passed by students in Florida public institutions of higher education to receive an Associate's degree or entrance into upper-level courses. This report gives test results on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Associate Degrees
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1993
The College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) is an achievement test mandated by the state of Florida to assess the communications and mathematics skills of college students in public institutions in Florida. Passing the CLAST is a requirement for an Associate's in Arts degree or entry into upper-level courses. This report presents and analyzes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Associate Degrees
Miller, Fred L.; Grimes, J. Milton – 1991
Murray State University (Kentucky) has approached the internationalization of the business curriculum by creating a bachelor of arts degree program requiring 2 years of foreign language study. To assess the program's overall success, three student surveys were undertaken. The first polled entering freshman business students in fall 1990 about…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Business Administration Education, Business Communication, College Freshmen
Rigas, Anthony L. – 1982
The University of Idaho's video outreach graduate program is described. The program is designed to provide continuing education, credit courses, and graduate degree-granting programs anywhere in the state by producing these programs on video cassette and Betamax formats. Presently the Master of Engineering in electrical and Mechanical Engineering…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Science, Continuing Education, Credit Courses
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1985
Recommendations to improve quality in undergraduate study while maintaining access are offered that would involve statewide entry and exit standards and better preparation of students to meet the standards. Evidence suggests that an estimated 40 to 50 percent of entering freshmen will be referred to remedial education, and colleges may be granting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, College Bound Students
Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant. Inst. for Personal and Career Development. – 1977
Experiential Learning graduate credits are awarded to students enrolled in the Institute for Personal and Career Development (IPCD) graduate programs for knowledge acquired from on-the-job training, on-the-job experiences, non-university workshops, other vocation-related experiences, or avocational achievemnts. These experiences and achievements…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Applicants, College Credits, Credentials
Hengesbach, Theodore W. – 1978
A questionnaire was administered to determine the needs of external degree students in the South Bend, Indiana University External Degree Program. The results (48% response rate) were compared with those of an earlier study with Northwestern New York postsecondary students. It was found that 50% of South Bend students, as compared to 27% of the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Students, Blacks
Virginia Univ., Charlottesville. Center for the Study of Higher Education. – 1980
The handbook provides general information for prospective applicants to the graduate study programs in higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia. It is intended as a supplement to the university catalogs. Information is given about three degree programs (Education Specialist, Ed.S.; Doctor of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Admission, Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic)
Hellweg, Susan A.; Churchman, David A. – 1979
A model for an interdisciplinary graduate degree program based on the Behavioral Science Graduate degree program at California State University at Dominguez Hills is described. In light of the declining resources available to higher education institutions it is recommended that curricular programs be accountable and responsive to the needs of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, College Curriculum, College Faculty, Conference Reports
Allen, Don Cameron – 1968
A study of the Ph.D., financed by the Danforth Foundation and conducted by the Modern Language Association's Advisory Committee for the Ph.D., is based on responses to 3,623 questionnaires sent to department chairmen, directors of graduate study, graduate teachers, and recent recipients of the Ph.D. in English and American literature. Two chapters…
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic)
Svobodny, Dolly D., Comp. – 1971
The 264 abstracts in this compilation describe opinions and realities of the foreign language requirement in American colleges and universities. Included are surveys and statistical data on language enrollments; arguments for and against the study of foreign languages; the relationship of second language acquisition to the national interest;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Attitudes, Classical Languages, College Admission
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. – 1976
Proceedings of a workshop conducted by the Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing include: patterns of assessment of experiential learning (John R. Valley); physical assessment of ethnic people of color (Julie Sykes); introduction and integration of health assessment in the associate degree phase at Brigham Young University College of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Bachelors Degrees, Blacks, Clinical Diagnosis
Kotamraju, Pradeep; Steuernagel, Bruce; Jacquart, Mary – 2002
This five-section paper describes how the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, the largest system of higher education in the state, determines what degree programs will be created, based on needs for workers in various occupations in the state. The paper begins by discussing why connecting demographic trends, learner segments,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Degree Requirements, Demand Occupations
Belcheir, Marcia J. – 1999
This study assessed student satisfaction with college in seven areas: academic programs; student services; campus atmosphere; social activities; career services; academic support; and general satisfaction. A total of 720 randomly selected students at Boise State University (BSU) (Idaho) were surveyed in fall 1996; data from the American College…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling, Classroom Environment, College Credits
