Addressing Economic Change through the Three-Year Option.

Autor/in	Lerstrom, Alan C.
Titel	Addressing Economic Change through the Three-Year Option.
Quelle	(1994), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Acceleration (Education); Bachelors Degrees; Campuses; College Admission; College Planning; Curriculum; Educational Economics; Higher Education; Paying for College; Policy Formation; Quality of Life; School Policy; Student Costs; Undergraduate Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Acceleration; Beschleunigung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Studienplanung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Bildungsökonomie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Studienfinanzierung; Politische Betätigung; Lebensqualität; Schulpolitik; Studienkosten; Grundstudium
Abstract	A committee at Luther College (Iowa) was appointed to explore the 3-year option for a bachelors degree with regard to curriculum, finances, admissions, and student life. The committee, composed of administrators and faculty from Luther, examined 3-year programs that operate now or are being discussed at several other colleges. They found that these programs have relatively low participation rates, that similar programs begun in the 1970s are now gone, and that, at many campuses, 3-year options may be primarily public relations tools designed to attract students. In examining curriculum and the 3-year option the committee found there would be no change in requirements or increase in faculty size. In examining finances, the 3-year option was estimated to cost 80.05 percent of the 4-year cost and if the college adopted the program it would have to find ways to cope with the 20 percent loss of income from 3-year students. Impact on admissions was found to depend on the number of participating students. With regard to student life, specific problems were not anticipated though students at a 3-year program at Albertus Magnus College (Connecticut) reported a rushed pace of life, erosion of traditions and sense of community, and perception that the school might be a "degree factory." (Contains 14 references.) (JB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC