Discusses the management of developing and transmitting academic culture through the educational institutions in the United States. (PG)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of grouping academic departments according to variables that represent departments' functions rather than their subject matters, and to investigate the efficacy of a certain method for achieving a departmental grouping. (Author)

Examines the inaccuracies of national enrollment projections, some of the causes of the limited success, and makes suggestions for improvement. Approaches the problem of making better projections for individual colleges and universities. (Author/PG)

Based on a research project involving 29 community junior colleges in 15 states, this study clearly demonstrates the need for increasing student and faculty concern for the quality of teaching. (Author/PG)

Considers the characteristics and implications of four patterns of instructional organization: (1) concurrent courses, (2) time modules, (3) academic modules, and (4) competency. (Author/PG)

Describes an experiment in which the learning contract method was used in a philosophical ethics course and assesses the learning contract method as compared to the discussion method. (Author/PG)

If faculty are to interpret activities data collection and analysis as a positive means of reviewing their own accomplishments, assisting them in professional improvement, shedding light on load inequities, justifying financial reallocations and other things that are important to them, the data analysis process must reflect those concerns. (Author)

Using contract learning as an example, theauthor explains the diffusion process for academic innovations through higher education institutions: conditions affecting innovations, sources of innovations, diffusion channels, the demand-flow process, the ideal and typical innovation process, and implications for innovators. (Author/PG)