Topics considered include governance, central office organization, administrative position analysis, faculty organization, faculty participation in policy formation and decision making, academic freedom, goals analysis, budgetary policies and methods, and decisions strategies. Adult and Higher Education Explores twentieth-century ideas and issues in adult and higher education. The majority of the literature and discussion concerns the university. Instructional Strategies in Adult and Higher Education Encourages a rational consideration of the problems of teaching adult and higher education settings. Students will be able to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, and common points of application.
Common strategy is used in the adult and higher education settings.
Students will be able to design and implement a variety of instructional strategies appropriate for adult and higher education settings. Students will learn how instructional strategies common to one discipline can be applied to other disciplines. Students will develop a workable strategy for helping teachers of adults and college students implement new instructional strategies. The student will examine realistic examples of decision making in such areas as budgeting, trustee relations, tenure decisions, faculty development, curriculum, and other areas. A study of the purposes, functions, curriculum, organization, and administration of American community and junior colleges.