As the leader of the nation's only campus dedicated exclusively to early college, the author heads an institution that ensures students graduate sooner than the national average. As an academic who pursued her graduate work at Oxford University--an institution that confers most of its undergraduate degrees in three years--the author has had direct…

Where does course content fit into the context of modern theories and practices of a liberal arts education? Two camps within the academic community are described: those who feel responsible for the personal growth of their students and those who see themselves as dispensers of information. (LBH)

Wingspread Conference (October 1984) presentations are given: "Pilgrims and Immigrants: Liberal Learning in Today's World" (Frank F. Wong); "How Can One Know America, Who Only America Knows?" (Robert L. Nichols); "Internationalizing the Curriculum in the Natural Sciences" (Jack L. Carter); "International Perspectives on Campus" (Franklin M.…

Asserts that liberal education has the promotion of intellectual development as a primary goal, and that to encourage intellectual progress, a context of intellectual freedom is necessary. Offers a set of principles of academic freedom that it suggests are foundational to the promotion of intellectual development. (EV)

A general education program should impart: knowledge of the testing and generation of information, the distinction between findings and explanations of findings (which change over the course of time), and the ability to recognize that a "best" explanation for a phenomenon can exist among a multiplicity of explanations. (RJG)

Part I of this paper appeared in the preceding issue of Educational Review (November 1968).

The real intention of liberal education is the development of right intellectual reasoning about human experience, of which justice is the result. (MSE)

A graduate survey (n=575) of alumni vocational achievement, acceptance of responsibility in social groups, and further intellectual development was related to undergraduate grades. The only significant finding was an inverse relationship with involvement in community activities among males. (Author/PN)

A study assessed the relationship between the freshman-year experience and the importance students attach to the educational goals of gaining a liberal education, developing career knowledge and skills, enhancing personal knowledge and improving interpersonal skills. (Author/MLW)

A college, it is argued, should be a place where basic assumptions are examined; where trained minds weigh options; where schools of thought are developed; and where social, political, and moral ramifications of that thought are tested. (MLW)

Legal education is on one hand professional education in the traditional sense, and on the other a liberal education. Its ultimate concern is not with students' competence at imitating other lawyers, but with the development of an individual's own capacities, sensibilities, and styles. (MSE)

The structure and results of a college faculty workshop in designing subject-area courses to promote critical thinking skills and intellectual development are reported. (MSE)

The concept of general education, its specific goals, and its role in the college curriculum are discussed. The goals of general education appear to center around teaching students to think analytically and to synthesize ideas into a general understanding. It is suggested, however, that these objectives tend to get lost in the specifics of…

Four articles on higher education curriculum are presented. In "The Articulate Curriculum" an approach to curriculum description is presented that is designed to have minimal ambiguity concerning the intention, content, and processes of the curriculum and that will lead to questioning several discrete factors in the curriculum planning…