The Society for Religion in Higher Education is committed to religion as an expression of human aspirations rather than as an isolated discipline. (Author)

Arguing against the privatization of the humanities, the author describes a project conducted by the Public Program Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities designed to give academic humanists opportunity to meet with people in small towns. The audience participation programs focus on contemporary issues from the perspective of the…

The brief history of the American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities, a general membership organization for people from all fields, types of work, and institutions related to the humanities, is chronicled, and the conditions and factors affecting its successes and failures are discussed. (MSE)

An interview with the new chairman of the national Endowment for the Humanities. (HS)

St. Anselm College's new core humanities program includes as a language requirement a special culture and civilization segment. The Native Speaker Program is described. Students meet once a week with native speakers. The textbooks contain magazine articles from the countries under study. (MLW)

The question in a growing number of colleges is not what curricular changes ought to be made but what must be done to survive institutionally and individually. (Author)

St. John's College in Annapolis is closer to the nineteenth century ideal of the American liberal arts college than any other, offering a program of required study that includes the Great Books, language, science and mathematics. Its founding, history and philosophy are discussed. (Author/PG)

The cultures of the science community and the humanities community misunderstand each other at the core, but there is more misunderstanding on the part of humanists about science than the reverse. If humanists insist that technical specialists study ethics and esthetics, what are the humanists prepared to study in return? (Author/MSE)

The notion that the interdisciplinary enterprise involves abandoning a discipline for a consistently holistic stance is critiqued. It is suggested that there are ways of exploring interdisciplinary relationships from the perspective of a discipline. (MLW)

Attempts to bridge the "gulf of mutual incomprehension" between natural science and the humanities and suggests that exploration of recurrent themata may provide some keys to mutual understanding. (Editor)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has been very successful in emphasizing informal channels of research through public TV, libraries, museums and historical societies while continuing traditional, university-based research in the humanities. (Author/PG)

Four reasons for the value of a liberal arts education are discussed in terms of the liberal arts versus vocational educational controversy. (KE)

Some achievements made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities are reported and the shape and future of the U.S. commitment to the humanities are discussed. It is suggested that public policy should nourish excellence and creativity while expanding access. (JMD)

New Directions in the Humanities, a series of five-day regional conferences, involved 300 faculty and administrators from more than 90 institutions. It provided information about established NEH-grant programs to colleges whose humanities programs needed innovation or massive support. (LBH)

Highly specialized education is no longer relevant to the needs of our diversified society. A return to a broad, general education curriculum is needed. (HS)