Biology education in Britain has developed since the eighteenth century from dependence on medicine and economic botany to a vigorous and autonomous field. This progress is due partially to the influx of European ideas, individuals, the imported rigors of the physical sciences, and various other external factors. (Author/MSE)

A method for assessing scientific performance based on relationships displayed numerically in published documents is proposed and illustrated using published documents in pediatric oncology for the period 1979-1982. Contributions of a major clinical investigations group, the Childrens Cancer Study Group, are analyzed. Twenty-nine references are…

An historical discussion of the application of psychological research and theory to education determines that educational psychology has not been developed separately from psychology. (ND)

The author reviews a book that explores the liberal assumptions about progress, freedom, technology, and equality that underlay the policy of liberal, twentieth-century educational reformers. (GW)

This book portrays the intersection of two impressive currents in contemporary intellectual life, cultural studies and educational research. Despite important contributions from a number of scholars, commerce between these two fields has, until recently, been disappointingly scarce. Yet as the rich array of essays in this volume suggests, fruitful…

This third report in a congressionally mandated study focuses solely on the issue of direct instructional expenditures and the factors associated with the comparative magnitude of these expenditures are 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. The data source is multiple cycles of the Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and…

This book attempts to construct a deep and broad understanding of interdisciplinary work and the types of scholarships collected under that rubric. The conceptualization of interdisciplinarity is based on interviews with faculty who are engaged in its practice. The chapters are: (1) Considering Interdisciplinarity; (2) Disciplining Knowledge; (3)…

This collection is designed to assist new and experienced faculty members who are teaching in interdisciplinary settings and who want to advance the integrative learning of their students and administrators who want to encourage integrative and interdisciplinary teaching in their institutions. Following an introduction, Laying a Foundation for…

This annual volume brings together papers related to the history of higher education in the United States and abroad. The papers are: (1) "Before and after Humboldt: European Universities between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (Robert Anderson); (2) "The Independent Intellectual as Academic Gadfly: One Variety of…

In the fall semester, 1999, a random sample of 814 undergraduate college students attending a southern land grant university were asked to complete a Learning Style Profile (LSP). Students were aged 17 to 58 years, with the mean age being 23. The LSP measured students' perceptual response study and instructional preferences. Inferential statistics…

This discussion paper examines the trend toward increased interdisciplinarity in the academy. Part 1 provides an overview of current trends, with emphasis on three areas: disciplinary change, interdisciplinary fields, and general education. It addresses the question of why interdisiciplinarity is taking hold in the academy today. Part 2 presents…

This collection of essays contains responses to a request to examine the emergence and formation of "cultural studies" within the university and the implications of cultural studies for an economics of "disciplinarity." The majority of the contributors are from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Following an introduction…

This paper speaks to the question of just what people in a human communication studies department do. The paper traces the study of communication historically, beginning with classical times in Greece and "impersonal communication," when the first formal education in communication was not theoretical, but applied. The paper points out…

This annual report is a summary of the Council's activities during the fiscal year including the most recent audited financial report for the organization. The 2003-2004 Annual Report provides their accredited institutions and the public with an overview of their four statements of value intended to express what is important to ACICS within the…

Twenty nine faculty members at Yale were asked how they chose their fields, at what age they did so, and what teachers and books influenced their choice. Their brief answers make up the article. (MS)