New Directions in the Humanities, a series of five-day regional conferences, involved 300 faculty and administrators from more than 90 institutions. It provided information about established NEH-grant programs to colleges whose humanities programs needed innovation or massive support. (LBH)

Contends that the National Endowment for the Humanities is biased against scholarship by young persons on experimental literature. (DD)

Reports on the formation of a faculty seminar designed to explore areas for interdisciplinary scholarship and to develop courses out of the ongoing concerns of an active professional colloquium. Describes studies pursued by participants and courses that have arisen as a result of the seminar. (GW)

Historians have extended the study of religion into the 20th century, and in social sciences many scholars are reassessing their theories about the secularization of American society. Recent trends in scholarship have also facilitated the rediscovery of the Bible and other religious texts. (MLW)

Describes nine ERIC documents, selected specifically for secondary and college-level history teachers, and provides ordering information. The documents cover such topics as teaching about the U.S. Constitution, Asian studies, writing strategies in advanced placement history courses, the Northwest Ordinance, and critical thinking. (GEA)

College education is essentially concerned with argumentation about interpretations. It depends on and trains for the capacity to assume different points of view simultaneously in order to interpret and predict, and it should celebrate playful acts of imagination. (MSE)

Discusses a Vassar College workshop and the debate it generated over the depth and breadth of computer knowledge needed by humanities students. Describes two positions: the "Holistic View," which emphasizes the understanding of the formal methods of computer implementation; and the "Expert Users View," which sees the humanist…

This bibliography is designed as a research aid for those planning to introduce or modify a course to teach the use of the computer to students in the humanities. Divided into two sections, the first covers articles and books that deal with designing and teaching these courses; the second is a list of background readings. (GEA)

This discussion of the use of optical scanning and computer formatting for retrospective conversion focuses on a series of applications known as Optical Scanning for Creation of Information Databases (OSCID). Prior research in this area and the usefulness of OSCID for creating low-priced machine-readable data representing older materials are…

Explores the relationship between the scientific method as it is represented in social sciences and the "humanistic methodology" of history, and other humanities. Maintains that students preparing to be teachers should recognize these methodological sources for developing teaching strategies and activities. (JDH)

Liberal-arts colleges dominate the list of institutions with the highest percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.'s. A study based on a comparison of the number of bachelor's degree recipients who earned Ph.D's between 1951 and 1980 is described. (MLW)

A curriculum design that focuses on the human sciences, the disciplines that concern themselves with the social and individual activities that are distinctively human, would be a better approach than the current separation of the humanities and social sciences. (MSE)

Presents descriptive data from a survey of Chicano faculty at baccalaureate-granting institutions in the Southwest. Focuses on (1) educational and career patterns of Chicano faculty, and (2) personal and institutional features of Chicano faculty participation in postsecondary educational institutions. (Author/GC)

Outlines the special summer humanities institutes for secondary school principals that began at three universities in 1984 and were funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (MD)

Concern for the state of the humanities is a choice, not a necessity, for research administrators, but by fostering the humanities in any way, research administrators can nurture a vital tradition and a resource that contributes to the institution's basic purposes. (Author/MSE)