Letter from Samuel Willard, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, November 30, 1802

Willard discusses President Willard’s son Sheafe, who he has been tutoring, explains his education and argues for well-rounded studies. He also mentions that Doctor Aaron Dexter, a lecturer on chemistry, gave him a recipe for paint “which I enclose [separately] in this letter,” as well as a recipe for mortar. He explains that his vacation plans are to teach at a school in Groton for eighteen dollars a month, and asks for a loan from his parents to pay a bill.

Does the growth in higher education mean a decline in the quality of degrees? CEPS Working Document No. 405/March 2015

In this paper the authors construct a theory about how the expansion of higher education could be associated with several factors that indicate a decline in the quality of degrees. They assume that the expansion of tertiary education takes place through three channels, and show how these channels are likely to reduce average study time, lower academic requirements and average wages, and inflate grades. First, universities have an incentive to increase their student body through public and private funding schemes beyond a level at which they can keep their academic requirements high. Second, due to skill-biased technological change, employers have an incentive to recruit staff with a higher education degree. Third, students have an incentive to acquire a college degree due to employers’ preferences for such qualifications; the university application procedures; and through the growing social value placed on education. The authors develop a parsimonious dynamic model in which a student, a college and an employer repeatedly make decisions about requirement levels, performance and wage levels. Their model shows that if i) universities have the incentive to decrease entrance requirements, ii) employers are more likely to employ staff with a higher education degree and iii) all types of students enrol in colleges, the final grade will not necessarily induce weaker students to study more to catch up with more able students. In order to re-establish a quality-guarantee mechanism, entrance requirements should be set at a higher level.

Architecture and Design, College of. Interior

Drawing class. 1949

The Eton system of education vindicated and its capabilities of improvement considered in reply to some recent publications.

Mode of access: Internet.

Historical sketch of Mount Holyoke seminary. Founded at South Hadley, Mass., in 1837. Prepared in compliance with an invitation from the commissioner of education, representing the Department of the interior in matters relating to the national centennial of 1876.

Mode of access: Internet.

Teaching Spanish in school and college to native speakers of Spanish = La enseñanza del español a estudiantes hispanoparlantes en la escuela y en la universidad.

Mode of access: Internet.

Counseling Hispanic college-bound high school students /

Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche.

Special education and the Hispanic child : proceedings from the second annual Colloquium on Hispanic Issues /

"August 1981."

Preparing Mexican Americans for mathematics- and science-based fields : a guide for developing school and college intervention models /

"Prepared with funding from the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education under contract no. NIE 400-83-0023"--T.p. verso.

Research and intervention : preventing substance abuse in higher education /

"FIRST 94-7001"--P. [4] of cover.

Light and shadows on college athletes : college transcripts and labor market history /

"OR91-504"--P. [4] of cover.

Industry-college relations.

Mode of access: Internet.

PJE. Peabody journal of education.

Published: Nashville, Tenn. : George Peabody College of Teachers, 1970- ; Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,

The use of computers in engineering education; report. 1st-3d; 1960-62.

Cover title, 1960: Electronic computers in engineering education; report.