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Elliott, Patrick S. – College and University, 2018
Professional development is important to any organization, and sometimes quickly overlooked. The importance of professional development magnifies in institutions of higher education and the AACRAO professions, all of which are in the business of teaching and learning. This article examines how colleges and universities may improve professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2010
What higher education state policy issues will be at the forefront of discussion and legislative activity throughout the United States in 2010? Provided herein is the consensus of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) state relations and policy analysis staff, informed by continual scanning of state policy activities,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Policy Analysis, Trend Analysis, Educational Policy
Alderman, Geoffrey; Brown, Roger – College and University, 2007
The governments of the USA and the UK have identified similar challenges facing their higher education sectors. Both governments believe in the centrality of market forces in meeting higher education demand, with government and academia playing subordinate roles. The public purposes of higher education must be restated if the potentially negative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Socioeconomic Status, Education Work Relationship, Educational Status Comparison
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2007
Linking teacher practice to pupil outcomes has proven challenging for teacher educators. Methodological problems occur when linking individual teacher actions with subsequent pupil performance, including substantial intervening variables, questions about appropriate measures of student learning, issues regarding the lack of test standardization…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, State Colleges
Wilde, Edwin F. – College and University Business, 1974
Early retirement program at Beloit College solves an age-old problem: How to handle teaching ineffectiveness of older faculty members. (Editor)
Descriptors: Early Retirement, Employer Employee Relationship, Higher Education, Personnel Needs
Wortman, Wilfred W. – College and University Business, 1973
For the maximum output of a successful education, the author suggests the following steps: smaller classes, technological aids, and external examinations. (PG)
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Feldman, Albert – College and University Journal, 1973
The master teacher is much more valuable than the consummate researcher. (Author)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Professors
Weir, Edward – College and University Business, 1971
The university does not need research so much as research needs the university. (Editor)
Descriptors: Educational Responsibility, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Research
Jabs, Max L. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
Reports an experimental study of six Child Psychology classes that compared the effects of two types of leadership, Initiation Structure (teacher centered) and Consideration Leadership (personalized), on the educational growth of students in six areas (e.g. subject matter, attitudes toward children). Concludes that a combination of the two…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Educational Research
Truex, M. Harold – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
The study reported here demonstrates the differing requirements critical to teaching at the elementary, secondary, and college level. In college teaching professional factors (e.g. knowledge of subject matter and class presentation) were found to have greatest significance in overall effectiveness of teaching-learning performance as opposed to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Educational Research
Bolton, Brian – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
On the premise that the more formal algebraic presentation of statistics must be placed in a concrete context to facilitate student understanding, the author presents a pedagogical device involving the construction of miniature numerical examples that illustrate how the statistical model imposes structure on empirical data. (JT)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Instruction, Higher Education, Mathematical Models
Redefer, Frederick L. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
A Professor Emeritus of New York University reviews the practice of awarding recognition for superior college teaching (great teacher awards) concluding that they do not increase great teaching or the number of great teachers. He suggests that prospective students should seriously ask colleges what they do to insure good teaching. (JT)
Descriptors: College Choice, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
Vaccaro, Louis C. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
Arguing that students' demand for relevance is for wisdom rather than for utilitarian knowledge, and that it is caused by poor teaching, particularly in the liberal arts, the author emphasizes the individual teacher's responsibility to communicate the proper view of education, to lead students in their search for wisdom. (JT)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Institutional Role
Gustafson, George Axel – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
In discussing the need for combination of theory and practice in the college accounting curriculum, the author presents a conceptual framework for the body of knowledge which teaches the student principles and puts them into practice through illustrations. (JT)
Descriptors: Accounting, Administrative Principles, Business Education, College Curriculum
Breiter, Joan Catherine – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
Discusses whether a healthful personality is a necessity for a teacher to be effective. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Faculty, Higher Education, Personality, Student Teachers