This essay explores the concept of mentoring communities in the context of Christian higher education. It delves into the importance of forming mentoring communities for faculty, administrators, and students that embrace love, empathy, and a shared commitment to justice, particularly in light of systemic injustices within academia and in the…

The Catholic Intellectual Tradition should animate the academic life and educational mission of Catholic colleges and universities. A clearer focus on the catholicity of the tradition -- its aspiration to wholeness -- will help us better understand what it means to engage the tradition in the heart of the institution's academic mission. The…

In this essay, Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz explore the higher education aims of advancing truth, respecting speech, and fostering inclusive learning environments in the context of controversial invited speakers on college campuses. They consider the case of Charles Murray's visit to Middlebury College in 2017. They argue that…

Are the humanities relevant enough to the average undergraduate to be included as a required part of a general education program? The University of Idaho (UI) is currently ten years into the challenge of implementing a cross-disciplinary, university-wide general education program--the UI Core--that has the attention, if not always the support, of…

This study contributes to the reconceptualization of student personnel work by examining the views of college and university presidents on the goals of student affairs programs, and by determining the views of chief student affairs officers of their program goals. (Author/LA)

In an information age, the university's most significant contribution to society is to improve intellectual productivity through the learning process. Many applications of computers and word processing to learning have been ineffective because they have not addressed questions of intellectual productivity and have not reorganized learning systems…

This study investigated the accuracy with which administrators describe the college environment as it appears to students. Student personnel administrators projected students as viewing the environment significantly higher in terms of "intellectual stimulation" and significantly lower in "bureaucracy" than students actually did. (Author)

Investigated differences among student self-perceptions, administrator ratings of students, and student projections of how they are seen by administrators. Student personnel administrators, as well as the other administrators sampled, significantly underestimated students' self-reported intellectual orientations. Students projected administrators…

Feminist scholarship, as a contemporary current in academic life, is analyzed from the perspective of research on the formation of intentional intellectual communities. Interview data reveal that faculty conceive of their commitments and sense of community in ways that do not always correspond to idealized conceptions of academic organization.…

This bibliography contains 457 entries concerning women in higher education student affairs including books, articles, research reports, monographs, speeches and conference papers published from 1964 to February 1995. The majority of items were published between 1980 and 1995. The citations were obtained from searches of the ERIC (Educational…

The outcomes of college attendance that enhance postsecondary education's attractiveness to prospective students are summarized. Some examples of institution-specific outcomes that a college or university can use to differentiate its market segment position and enhance its attractiveness are provided. (Author/MLW)

Colleges of liberal arts and sciences within universities are suggested to be in a time of crisis. Instead of fighting with professional schools or professional programs for the time and attention of students, through cooperative planning, goals can be realized and numerous paths to educational ends can be created. (MLW)

The evolution of the Honors Program at the Community College of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) is described, focusing on faculty participation and program decisions. Central program features are practices that build an intellectual community among faculty and students, including an interdisciplinary curriculum, seminars and writing groups,…

A university president emeritus offers lessons on effective leadership, focusing on five areas presidents often neglect: personal exhaustion; muddled or lack of priorities; relationships with family members and friends; personal isolation; and intellectual starvation. Suggested antidotes include serious reading, continued teaching, participation…

This collection of 34 essays provides an overview of the debates and reforms under discussion in regard to undergraduate curriculum. Part 1 focuses on the purposes and objectives of undergraduate education, reviewing pivotal historical developments, changes in the curriculum due to social and historical forces, and traditional and innovative…