Classrooms should be liberatory spaces where people are nurtured and content comes to life. But students and faculty frequently note the charged nature of the classroom, especially when course content focuses on aspects of identity such as race and ethnicity or dynamics related to power and inequality. This article describes a Faculty Dialogues…

The development and structure of a computer literacy course, developed at Hunter College (New York) in 1991 and targeting women and minorities, are described. The course has been extremely successful and well received and has resulted in the opening of additional computer laboratories and scheduling of many new sections. (MSE)

Detailed examination of the history of four typical mainstream colleges in a critical period provides useful connectives to widely held beliefs about the role of the liberal arts college in the evolution of American higher education. (Editor/LBH)

The need for a more pragmatic approach to international studies is proposed, and six U.S. programs of cross-cultural or international studies are described. (MSE)

The experience of Iona College in implementing a curriculum integrating technology with science in a liberal arts curriculum is outlined. Development of a curriculum development plan including computer, energy, environmental, and health sequences, problems of integrating the curriculum, and faculty involvement are discussed. (MSE)

The history of Arizona International College, a four-year public institution with a multicultural and global emphasis, is chronicled. The college evolved as an alternative to Arizona's existing public institutions, with a curriculum emphasizing communication skills, problem solving, quantitative and qualitative analysis, technical literacy, moral…