Ten years ago, AAC&U (then AAC) issued a landmark report, "Integrity in the College Curriculum: A Report to the Academic Community". Anticipating the academy's sternest external critics by nearly a decade, "Integrity" offered a sweeping and incisive critique of curricular practice throughout higher education. "As for…

Not all of those teaching the humanities agree on a common agenda for the future, with traditional categories of instruction being encroached upon by new areas of scholarship. In the humanities, authority will no longer rest in the content of traditional texts, but in the activity of interpreting texts. (MSE)

It is necessary to find ways to make the university a learning community, not just a place for teaching and research to coexist, accompanied by extracurricular activities. (MSE)

The author defends and clarifies a previous assertion that college faculty may need to be taught to take advantage of classroom opportunities to make insights and awareness clear to their students. (MSE)

The decline in the instruction of "close reading" and in interest in the power of language is to blame for students' frustration with and lack of interest in literature. Students want to believe in literature and language but don't know how. (MSE)

If college faculty and institutional commitments to academic integrity were to achieve a status similar to that of academic freedom, there could be a transformation of the intellectual community. Faculty must see academic integrity as a complement, not a challenge, to academic freedom; a closer affinity of the two may further energize both. (MSE)

Describes the development and design of the "master learners" program at Fort Lewis College (Colorado), in which faculty members from varied teaching backgrounds are given release time to participate as students in a year-long Human Heritage course to show freshmen how a master learns. The program has evolved into an exemplary faculty…

Electronic Networking for Interaction (ENFI) is a technique for providing immediate electronic feedback on student work to promote open-ended learning. The approach suggests a growing range of applications of new technology for student assessment for improved learning. (MSE)

The problem in promoting general education across the college curriculum is fundamentally attitudinal. Faculty must (1) recognize that general education coupled with a major is good vocational education, (2) prepare themselves to teach general education, and (3) convince students of its value. (MSE)

The role of colleges and universities in promoting the health of their students and of the community's youth is examined, and initiatives to develop partnerships with community groups are discussed. One suggested approach is to integrate health-promotion activities into the college curriculum, through public service projects and coursework.…

The Association of American Colleges and Universities' statement calling for a national dialog about effective higher education is presented. It examines the considerable task institutions face in educating a generation of students in an era of near-universal postsecondary education, fundamental choices to be made, mixed signals in public policy,…

The faculty's primary function in the private, liberal arts college is to foster its own and the students' independent judgment, not to provide an educational smorgasbord. It should focus on the original subject matter of the liberal arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, and reasoning about truth, goodness, and beauty) and promote dialog.…

The underlying goal of the scientific literacy movement, to provide science education so all US citizens can reach independent judgments on science-based societal issues, is an unrealistic social goal. A better approach is to develop awareness and appreciation of the scientific enterprise, focus on technology as a practical imperative, and develop…

Since World War II, US higher education has enjoyed a broad public consensus about its basic goals, values, and methods. That consensus is breaking down; and to preserve the best of higher education's heritage, the central tenet of the old consensus, that college opportunity should be as widely available as possible to those who could benefit,…

In an interview, two college students discuss aspects of the college experience, including the transition from high school to college, the most helpful general education and other courses, choice of major, classroom communication, curriculum relevance, effective teaching methods, and particularly important experiences and skills learned. (MSE)