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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
Gallant, Thomas F. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
A department chairman from Denison University offers a reminder that to educate means to lead or guide, rather than what teachers have mistakenly believed or practiced. Various pressures for professorial role change are cited, including the Dalton Plan and contract learning. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Performance Contracts
Fassler, Joan – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
Some major learning theory principles are reviewed and suggestions are made for integrating them into the process of education at the college or graduate school level. The theories deal with reinforcement, behavior modification, reactive inhibition, cognitive maps, incidental learning, retroactive inhibition, proactive inhibition, and spontaneous…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Jernigan, Edward E. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
The teaching responsibilities of a professor particularly make him a professional, as pointed out by a faculty member of the U. S. Air Force Academy. He suggests that a teacher's professionalism can be transmitted to his students. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Leadership Responsibility
Mannan, Golam; Traicoff, Ellen M. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
This study is an attempt to replicate earlier investigations at other institutions regarding the characteristics of an "ideal professor." Indiana University Northwest undergraduate and graduate students are in agreement about the most and least important characteristics: encouraging independent thinking, and liking college-age youth, respectively.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Professors, School Surveys
French, Laurence – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
The empirical testing of an objectively designed approach to student evaluation of sociology professors is reported. It combines the concept of student sub-cultural perception with the research method of matched-paired comparisons. (LBH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professors, Rating Scales, Sociology
Crane, Robert M. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1972
Teachers of the future must be better prepared than ever before, and must be ready to continue their learning that they might be proper identity models for students. (HS)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Professors
Walsh, Garnar V. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1972
Reports on a survey of college students regarding what professors made them think and how the instructors initiated this response. (HS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Creative Thinking
D'Angelo, Edward – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Higher Education, Professors
