Discusses a Sloan Foundation undergraduate project conducted at the University of California at Santa Clara, with emphases upon interdisciplinary design. Indicates that engineering should be seen as a broad education for a technology dependent society, rather than education leading to a specialized, dead-end career. (CC)

Discusses the study of design problems by interdisciplinary student-faculty groups under the sponsorship of the Sloan Foundation and in cooperation with industry, government, and community organizations. Included is a list of design projects. (CC)

Describes a program called "Society-Environment-Science" which has been offered for three years at Lansdowne Senior High School (Baltimore, Maryland). It is a one semester, interdisciplinary course that is team-taught by a social-studies teacher and a science teacher. (JR)

Discusses the roles of engineers in medical centers, including technical support, instrument control and safety for the hospital, and teaching and research tasks. Indicates that engineering education should take responsibilities to prepare them to understand the human relations and organizational characteristics of their environment through course…

Describes the interdisciplinary language program offered at the University of Delaware. (RL)

This article, written in essay form, offers a bibliography of readings for teachers and students which was compiled for an American studies unit that focuses upon a three-fold approach: the theoretical and historical nature of growth, the evaluation of the entrepreneur's role in economic growth, and the image held of businessmen and business…

Describes the development of a model curriculum for a joint five-year program in engineering and social work at Washington University. (CC)

Presents ten brief reports of recent innovation in college science teaching, involving study courses, educational programs, demonstrating experiments, laboratory instruction method, and teacher preparation programs. (CC)

Discusses the necessity of informing parents of school operations and maintaining open channels of communication. (DD)

Community Quest is one of the most innovative projects in secondary curriculum and teacher education in Hawaii, and it allows students the opportunity to become involved in community-centered curriculum. (Author/RK)

Described is a program which stresses close cooperation among staff members at a special school for the multiply handicapped in order to provide an integrated program for the handicapped child. (DB)

Discusses current changes in American graduate education along the direction of the electrically-aided external programs. Indicates that the nontraditional study movement will not only benefit students, but will bring also opportunities for faculty to perform in a variety of professional ways. (CC)

Discusses experience of being a Ph.D. candidate in the Union Graduate School (UGS). Concludes that obtaining the UGS degree is not easy, but the program makes sense to the writer at his age and with his experience and interests. (CC)

With a renewed planning process Catholic higher education can withstand the tide of development our society is experiencing. (RK)