INTRODUCTION Shared governance is one of the most widely discussed and misunderstood topics in postsecondary education today. Lacking precise definition and often interpreted in ways that support special interests, it can have different meanings for different audiences. Some view it as a system of self-government in which policies, procedures and decision-making involve the entire organization....

Community colleges are significant in the landscape of undergraduate STEM (science technology, engineering, and mathematics) education (9), including biology, premedical, and other preprofessional education. Thirty percent of first-year medical school students in 2012 attended a community college. Students attend at different times in high school, their first 2 yr of college, and postbaccalaure...

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Medical educators and public health experts have been calling on medical schools to enhance their teaching of population-based medicine for the greater part of the past decade. In June 1998, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) emphasized the importance of integrating a population health perspective within medical school curricula with its publication of Report II of the Medical ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES US medical school curricula continually undergo reform. The effect of formal curricular approaches (course organization and pedagogical techniques) on competence in medicine as measured by the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE) Step 1, 2, and 3 is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of formal curricular appro...

OBJECTIVES This study examined whether colleges with larger enrollments of students from demographic groups with lower rates of binge drinking exert a moderating effect on students from groups with higher binge drinking rates. METHODS The study analyzed data from 114 colleges included in the 1993, 1997, 1999, and 2001 College Alcohol Study surveys. RESULTS The binge drinking rates of White,...

Looking back on the development history of business administration majors in colleges of China, the author conducts an analysis on the distribution of colleges offering business administration majors and market demands for these graduates, according to the results of market survey. It finds that there is a large gap between market’s requirements on business administration graduates and their re...

The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of enrollment in community colleges on students’ subsequent earnings. I estimate the effect...

We develop a model of affirmative action as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous underlying abilities compete for seats at vertically differentiated colleges that use color-sighted affirmative action policies to evaluate applicants. Students make costly human capital investments before applying, and these investments are both intrinsically productive and serve as signals of abili...

American Council on Education [2] American Council on Education Department Chair Services [3] American Council on Education Office of Women in Higher Education [4] Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) [5] Association of American Universities (AAU) [6] Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) [7] Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and...