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)

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)

To improve dwindling engineering enrollments at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), students studying under the WPI Plan are awarded the B.S. degree on the basis of demonstrated competence rather than the accumulation of a required number of perscribed courses. (Author/PG)

Analysis of curriculum, enrollment, and faculty data from four private liberal arts colleges and two private research universities investigates the most cost-effective curriculum design, using simulation models. It is concluded that simpler college curricula, with fewer courses, less specialization, and more consolidation will yield smaller, less…