This article by José Antonio Bowen was presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the "Association of American Colleges and Universities" where the discussion included the question of how technology was bringing new tools and new competition to higher education, but was also changing basic rules about how "we operate" as human…

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…

Technological advances have made research-based learning possible now in ways that were unimaginable in previous generations. Such learning can and, the authors argue, should be at the center of the undergraduate experience. In this article, the authors describe an approach that combines research-based learning with student development theory to…

Keynesian pedagogy, in which the principle of reciprocal causation is coupled with the imperative of increasing personal self-esteem through education, is unworkable and unproductive even after two decades of use. (MSE)

Explains the Association of American Colleges and Universities' initiative to define the aims of twenty-first century undergraduate education, called "Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation Goes to College." Then introduces articles that describe successful change and innovation at three colleges. (EV)

Describes the seven steps over a course of several years, which enabled Worcester Polytechnic Institute to implement and sustain a reconstruction of undergraduate education to involve no set curriculum, but rather three qualifying projects. (EV)

The twentieth century's reinterpretation of knowledge has important implications for the structure of education generally and, in particular, for the humanities and the way humanists teach. Humanistic studies teaching human tradition, community, and solidarity will contribute greatly to undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. (MSE)

The 1972 report of the Commission on Institutional Affairs of the Association of American Colleges covers college teaching, academic tenure, collective bargaining, salaries, status of women, accreditation, status of 18 year-olds, and intercollegiate athletics. (PG)

Developments in humanities scholarship are moving in surprisingly congruent directions. Far from competing with proper attention to pedagogy, they provide solid bases for curricular coherence and teaching effectiveness. New integrative themes crossing disciplinary lines in humanities, focusing here on history, can help fulfill several humanities…

While university students are adept at acquiring knowledge, they are less and less skilled in critical thinking, and nearly illiterate in enlarged understanding, or contextual thinking. Higher education trains students to merely assume responsibility for tasks, not think about the larger realities of which they are a part. (MSE)

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)

Introduces the articles in the theme issue, exploring their contribution to the understanding of college students' stages of intellectual development and how college instruction should respond. (EV)

At Brooklyn College (New York), students' autobiographical narratives are used to help other students examine the structure of the world in which they grew up and to better understand the tension between the individual and society. In this way, sociology becomes more real and personal. (MSE)