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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED165510 AUTHOR: Martorana, S. V.; Kuhns, Eileen
TITLE: Academic Programming. AAHE-ERIC/Higher Education
Research Currents, September 1978.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 6 p.; Best copy available
AVAILABILITY: Publications Department, American Association
for Higher Education, One Dupont Circle, Suite 780,
Washington, D.C. 20036 ($.40)
ABSTRACT: This review of academic programming considers
changes that have occurred as a reaction to real or
perceived shifts in institutional and social conditions and
values, program design, and program approval, review, and
evaluation. Among the conditions influencing programming
decisions in the late 1970s are open-access policies,
affirmative-action policies, the new majorities of
part-time
and female students, the demand for noncredit and
nontraditional educational opportunities, developments in
collective bargaining, and geographic duplication of degree
program. The curriculum for American undergraduates
typically contains three components: general education, the
major concentration, and electives. It is shown that the
undergraduate career is now divided almost equally among
these three components, and that a growth in
elective-taking
has been at the expense of the general education component.
Curricula have been redesigned to serve the increasing body
of adult students, since the number of traditional-age
college students has been declining. Program approval
refers
to a state agency's giving permission to an institution to
offer a program. Program review involves analysis of an
institution's existing programs, by a state agency, by the
institution itself, or possibly by an accrediting group. In
practice these terms often are used interchangeably.
Publications and studies in various states on program
review, approval, and evaluation are cited. A bibliography
is included. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adult-Students; Curriculum-Development;
Educational-Assessment; Educational-Demand; Elective
Courses; General-Education; Majors-Students; Nontraditional
Students; Program-Design; Program-Evaluation; Student
Characteristics
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Curriculum; *Curriculum-Design;
*Curriculum-Evaluation; *Educational-Change; *Higher
Education; *Undergraduate-Study
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