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How Should Colleges Evaluate Faculty Scholarship?

By: James Werntz

From Volume 20 Number 3 | Spring 1992

Abstract: Book review: Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, by Ernest Boyer. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1991. 147 pages.

Planning Types: Academic Planning

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Attracting Black Students into Engineering

By: Phyllis Denbo

As a national shortage looms, universities try more daring approaches.

From Volume 19 Number 4 | Summer 1991

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."

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Can Colleges Go Back to a Core Curriculum?

By: Thomas Flynn

How to design a liberal arts education for the future.

From Volume 19 Number 1 | Fall 1990

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,"

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Cost and Productivity Analysis for Higher Education: A Look at the Boston College Approach

By: Eileen M. Doherty

From Volume 16 Number 1 | 1987–1988

Institutions Mentioned: Boston College
Planning Types: Academic Planning, Resource Planning
Tags: Academic Program Review, Cost of Higher Ed, Faculty Productivity

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Academic Planning in a Political System

By: John W. Moore

From Volume 14 Number 1 | 1986

Planning Types: Academic Planning
Tags: Decision Making, Engaging Stakeholders, Governance, Leadership Attitude Toward Planning, Organizational Culture, Theory

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Assessing Educational Outcomes

By: Homer C. Rose, Jr.

From Volume 14 Number 4 | 1986

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.