Practical teaching is an important part of teaching activities in colleges and universities. Based on the characteristics of vocational colleges, the article expounds the importance of practical teaching in the teaching system of vocational college. Meanwhile it makes an analysis on the current situations and development demand of vocational college, discusses how to make more students make ful...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This Is the first story In a three-part series Investi­ gating the policies for the admis­ sion of women and minorities into undergraduate colleges and uni­ versities. The first story will cover the admissions policies for women at Notre Dame. The second story considers the policies for admitting minorities to the University. The final article exam ines the policies for admitting...

Remembering often occurs as an act of communicating, during which memories can be implanted, reinforced, and suppressed. I will discuss how these consequences of conversational remembering shape the memories of speakers and listeners and how they promote collective remembering and collective forgetting. Their effects on collective memory are discussed in terms of collective identity and collect...

Sweet • Medical education Higher education accreditation is rapidly shifting from structure and process evaluations to outcome measurement. As educators are frequently asked to look at their outcomes, so too are the educators’ accreditors. In its current regulations, the United States Department of Education (USDE) requires its recognized accreditors to look at student achievement. The AOA Bure...

Prior research suggests that statewide affirmative action bans reduce minority representation at selective colleges while leaving overall minority college enrollment unchanged. The effect of these bans on racial segregation across colleges, as measured by standard exposure and dissimilarity indexes, has not yet been estimated directly and is theoretically ambiguous due to a Ushaped relationship...

The Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education (U.S. Department of Education, 2006), which is come to be known as the “Spellings Commission,” identified the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) as one of “the most comprehensive national efforts to measure how much students actually learn at different campuses” and that the CLA, “promotes a culture of evidence-based as...

We study college admissions problems where unacceptable agents may exist on both sides. We explore two types of conditions for the core to be a singleton. We first consider conditions on the colleges’ preferences in problems where the sets of agents and the colleges’ capacities are arbitrarily fixed and the students’ preferences are chosen freely. We next consider conditions on the colleges’ ca...