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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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Creating Community Within Individual Courses.
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Chickering, Arthur W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2000
Suggests ways to create community within individual courses in order to increase the involvement of commuter students. Describes application of these strategies in an introductory course on leadership and organizational behavior. Proposes seven principles for creating community within individual courses, including recognizing differences in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Commuting Students, Courses, Higher Education
The Collegiate Ideal in the Twenty-First Century.
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Chickering, Arthur W.; Kytle, Jackson – New Directions for Higher Education, 1999
Whatever forms they take, colleges of the 21st century must incorporate the educational fundamentals that underlie traditional residential institutions. Key ingredients of these educationally powerful environments include clear purposes, maximization of human interaction, pedagogies for active learning, recognition of individual differences,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, College Environment, College Role
Developing Intellectual Competence at Empire State
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Chickering, Arthur W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1975
Examples of how Empire State College in New York uses learning contracts together with first results of students' evaluation of their use.
Descriptors: Contracts, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
College Advising for the 1970s
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Chickering, Arthur W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1973
Increasingly diverse students and increasingly diverse educational options, including self-development, have created the need for new counseling programs and personnel. (Editor)
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Counselors, Higher Education
Appendix. Framework for a Workshop on Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.
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Chickering, Arthur W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1989
Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education provide a foundation for organizing a workshop on improving undergraduate education in a large university. In such a workshop, each participant responded to five questions concerning the principle of his or her choice, and the implications for a given institution were discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Program Development