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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Jones, Anna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
There has been considerable interest in generic attributes in higher education for over a decade and yet while generic skills or attributes are an important aspect of policy, there is often a lack of consistency between beliefs about the importance of these skills and attributes and the degree to which exist in teaching practice. There has been an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Skills, Intellectual Disciplines, Culture
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Maynard, Douglas C.; Joseph, Todd Allen – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
Utilizing a person-job fit perspective, we examined the job satisfaction and affective commitment of three groups of college faculty (N = 167): full-time faculty, part-time faculty preferring a part-time position (voluntary part-time), and part-time faculty preferring a full-time position (involuntary part-time). Involuntary part-time faculty were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Personality Theories, Job Satisfaction
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Leyser, Yona; Romi, Shlomo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
The study examined attitudes toward school inclusion of students with disabilities of 1,145 prospective teacher trainees from six national/religious groups in eleven colleges in Israel: The groups were secular, religious and ultra-orthodox Jews and Muslim, Christian and Druze Arabs. Participants responded to the "Opinion Related to Inclusion…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Higher Education, Behavior Problems, Jews