Free from the comforts of home, many students are experiencing being on their own for the first time. One of the challenges they face is budgeting. This becomes particularly problematic when an expected budget item changes. This study examines how students at a small Midwestern liberal arts college meet the budgeting challenge. Do students plan and budget for discretionary items differently tha...

Liberal arts education, also referred to as general education, provides students with knowledge, skills and values that enhance their ability to participate in society and to use their minds effectively. In most jurisdictions, however, paraprofessional education has not included any significant component of general education; programs remain, for the most part, focused on technical “know-how,” ...

The engineering, arts and science disciplines involved in media training, research and education at Arizona State University have come together to create the Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) graduate education and research program. The education component of this program consists of formalized graduate concentrations within existing degrees that allow faculty and students to combine extensive ...

1 d With the recognition that there are inherent occupational and environmental hazards in the visual arts comes the challenge of finding suitable ways to educate future artists, provide for regulatory compliance and help reduce the potential for accidents and injuries in the studio. Owing to the diversity of activities, products and processes used in the visual arts, meeting this challenge is ...

The Albright Creative Research Experience (ACRE), a campuswide program that invites faculty members and students from all disciplines to apply for grants that support collaborative research, has evolved, expanded, and drawn strength from an increased number of diverse projects in the arts and humanities (Figure 1). In fact, since the inception of ACRE in 1997, research collaborations in the art...

The hierarchical nature of higher education, in which schools compete in small enclaves for the best students, and competition for higher rankings among private, non-profit liberal arts colleges has prompted some schools to drastically increase their tuition in order to correspond with the price changes of rival institutions. Since top liberal arts schools operate with sizable excess demand for...

We developed and offered a sequence of neuroscience courses geared toward changing the way non-science students interact with the sciences. Although we accepted students from all majors and at all class levels, our target population was first and second year students who were majoring in the fine arts or the humanities, or who had not yet declared a major. Our goal was to engage these students ...

The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effects of contextuallybased multiple meaning (i.e., words with multiple meanings) vocabulary instruction on the vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension of students. Third and 5th grade students received either contextuallybased multiple meaning vocabulary instruction embedded in the standard language arts instruction offered to all stu...