Describes implementation through evaluation of the Nutrition Education Development Project, an innovative approach to preparing teachers for incorporation nutrition into the existing curriculum. (MA)

The Reading Improvement Through Art Program is an effort to adapt methodology proven successful with poor readers in elementary, intermediate and high schools. Describes this interdisciplinary program and calls attention to "the important relationships between visual and verbal learning". (Author/RK)

Admissions and public affairs offices often work together but usually at arm's length. New College of the University of South Florida, faced with severe staff and budget cutbacks, decided to formalize a closer relationship between the two offices to help increase enrollment. The relationship proved an effective, goal-oriented arrangement. (Author)

Using funding from Project SPEED, this program was able to substantiate both a significant change in the cognitive levels of knowledge about drugs and its effect in society, as well as significant changes in attitudes of students to that of a more accepting attitude toward drug users. (Author)

Describes problems encountered in a graduate level interdisciplinary environmental education program conducted at Johns Hopkins University. (SL)

Described is an interdisciplinary approach which provides pre-service teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students with the opportunity to learn media concepts and skills and translate them directly into practice. (CL)

The new University of the Arts was created by the merger of the Philadelphia College of Art and the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts. An increasing interchange among art disciplines is seen, but each student must also take liberal arts courses. (MLW)

Faculty and administrators at St. Joseph's College developed an advising approach using a team of faculty advisors from different disciplines to advise all incoming students. A description of the strategy and its results are presented. (Author/MLW)

Young people need to understand how we use our senses to relate to our world and how the arts and technology heighten sensory perception. A participatory exhibition involving art, music, science, and technology designed for elementary and secondary students by the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, is described. (RM)

The Delaware Art Museum believes that art is an important component to all parts of the school curriculum. To support the interdisciplinary uses of art, the Museum has developed tour programs, e.g., a geometry tour and a cultures around the world tour. These and other tour programs are described. (RM)

Describes On Lok, a long-term care approach which has assumed responsibility for providing all services needed by a functionally dependent adult population. Based on the first two years of operation, descriptive data on the service system, its development, participants served, services given, and costs are presented and interpreted. (JAC)

Experiential learning, or learning by doing, fits newer conceptions about the process of learning. John Dewey's emphasis on experience as the key to real learning, Paulo Freire's criticism of the "banking concept" of education, and David Kolb's description of the cycle of experiential learning have changed the conception of learning.…

Describes in general terms the nature of Alternative Schools, and more specifically discusses the program at Alternative School East, which serves four public school districts in the Philadelphia area. Outlines the curriculum and teaching methods used in biology. An interdisciplinary approach and learning activities in the community are…

Discusses implementation of an interdisciplinary bachelor of science degree program in Lamar University, Beaumont, with emphases upon the training of pollution and environmental quality control. Indicates that graduates' job opportunities are created by the enactment of recent laws for cleaner air and water. (CC)