Learning Resources

Abstract: Subtitles: Four precepts; The importance of starting early; Is helpful action increasing?; To produce more black engineers. Pull quotes: "The training of engineers and scientists begins early." "A much greater investment by society is urgent." "Universities must plan now to train more black engineers and scientists." "Multiple approaches are necessary."

Abstract: Subtitles: Is a Core Possible?; How It All Began; Issues of Consensus and Debate; The Sticky One: Integration; Lessons for Those Planning a New Curriculum. Pull quotes: "Today's core curriculum must be rooted in each college's own academic focus." "The survey findings provided a powerful stimulus to curriculum renewal." "Those decrying lack of student choice were reminded that their own departmental programs were comprised of tightly prescribed requirements." "Integration among departments does not come easily to today's professors." "Potitical and intellectual risk taking is indispensable,"

Abstract: A review of “Assessing Educational Outcomes,” by Peter T. Ewell, (ed.), New Directions for Institutional Research Issue Number 47, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1985.

Abstract: Drawing on his experiece as Provost for Planning at West Virginia University, Raymond M. Haas deals in the following article with the importance of a proper charge to the Planning Office as a means of achieving integrated planning. He further proposes that the role of the Planning Office should be clearly coordinative in the nature--to the point where its only responsibility for actual planning should be in planning the planning process. Finally, he argues that "... integrated planning can be achieved only when planning is a regularly scheduled activity which occurs frequently, and which produces results that manifest themselves in the allocation, reallocation, and effective use of resources within the institution." The author's remarks have been adapted from his presentation at the Society's 11th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.