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Morse, Kenneth O. – 1987
The successes and failures of a small private college in internationalizing its business curriculum are discussed. The college's condition of severely constrained resources is outlined, and the college's program development approach of sharing resources with other institutions is described. A consortium of local institutions was created to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Community Support, Consortia
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz – 1984
The creation and development of 10 women's colleges are discussed: Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard (the Seven Sisters colleges), and Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps. Consideration is given to: how each of these colleges offered to women an education equal to that offered by the best men's…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Role, College Students, Educational Facilities Design
Pruitt, William N., Jr. – 1982
The development of a Planning, Management, and Evaluation (PME) system at Voorhees College, is described. The project at the small, liberal arts college was supported by an Advanced Institutional Development Program (AIDP) grant. Primary objectives were to decrease the responsibility of the college's chief officer and to upgrade the academic…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, College Role, Higher Education
Gill, Wanda E. – 1985
The design and development of a pre-law program for a small historically black college are described. The model consists of six phases: community outreach/recruitment; an 8-week summer session at the first and second years of college; a second 8-week summer session at the end of the sophomore year; the junior and senior years; and followup. The…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Black Colleges, Black Students, Career Counseling
Berte, Neal; And Others – 1985
Lessons learned by five small, private colleges about meeting the challenges facing higher education are described. Each of the colleges developed a unique educational program emphasizing the liberal arts that responds to current challenges. Each school has experienced increased enrollments and retention, growth in endowments and plants, larger…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Presidents
Jonsen, Richard W. – 1978
The changes that small liberal arts colleges have undergone are discussed in this monograph in terms of their past, present, and future roles in society. The first section looks at these colleges in the colonial context and shows how they were altered by specialization, secularization, the rise of science and empirical research, and by an…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
Keane, Joseph A. – 1978
Information on existing salary systems at 82 small private colleges throughout The U.S. is presented. Included are discussions on salary scales in relation to merit rating, and the monetary value of typical awards. Twenty-eight of the 82 colleges indicated ongoing merit rating plans. Study results include the following: (1) merit rating is not the…
Descriptors: Awards, College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Gamso, Gary – 1978
This manual is designed to provide an alternative for small colleges that are unable to use computer-based software and models available through the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS). Included are concepts drawn from other NCHEMS costing projects, using simplified worksheets for cost-analysis computations rather than…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Planning, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Rogers, Raymond – 1978
The change in the organizational structure and goals of Mount Wachusett Community College (Massachusetts) from its inception to its current state is analyzed with respect to decision-making concerning staffing. At its infancy, the administration is seen as a rational focal structure; a central power grants resources and staff members are afforded…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Decentralization, Decision Making
Brooks, Norward J. – 1980
While the elite private colleges may survive the enrollment declines of the 1980's and 1990's, the less elite, so-called invisible private colleges may have more difficulty. Finance, enrollment, and competition are the three major elements seen to threaten these institutions' futures. They face an uncertain financial future since historically they…
Descriptors: College Role, Competition, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance
Rehnke, Mary Ann – 1979
The 413 members of the North American Association of Summer Sessions were surveyed to determine programming for college summer sessions in the 1980's. Summer session directors were asked about who the students of the 1980's would be, what programs should be developed, where programs should be held, and what time frames for course offerings would…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Planning, College Programs, Educational Supply
Duryea, E. D. – 1979
In a discussion of the development of higher education in America, its European roots are traced to provide a historical perspective to some current issues. The paper examines the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment in relation to the influence that each of these historical periods had on the first colleges and universities in this…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Christianity, Colleges, Cultural Influences
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Fleming, James S. – Journal of Higher Education, 1986
A case study of the Eisenhower College legislation of 1974 follows the legislation from its inception in May 1970, to final enactment by Congress in December 1975, and through the administrative problems that resulted in the college's closing in July 1982. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Powell, James L. – College Board Review, 1987
Franklin and Marshall College concluded it would come closer to its educational goals by reducing its size. Use of a planning model to project institutional finances based on tuition, gift, grant, and enrollment estimates predicts a potential major improvement in the college's position. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, Endowment Funds, Fund Raising
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Berger, Ira M. – Liberal Education, 1984
A former faculty member at Eisenhower College, an experimental college that closed after only a few years' operation, gives an anecdotal account of some of the problems the college faced and how the administration handled them. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Role, Curriculum Development
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