Saying that the systems approach to teaching has not yet been sufficiently developed to revolutionize school curricula, the author advocates combining traditional approaches with in-school development of problem-solving packages. (Editor)

Issues concerning the college as a community of inquiry, scholarship, and learning are considered, based on a 1982 conference at Colgate University. The conference addressed the problem of non-community in the academy, along with different conceptions of solving this problem. Conference participants described both typical experiences of academic…