The dramatic increase in college course offerings about the decade of the 1960s is a result of both to student curiosity with its protest movements and of faculty composition. Some feel the courses are essential to student understanding of modern life, whereas others feel more research is needed. (MSE)

A graduate of a course in history's great ideas and the processes of thinking about them encourages the development of similar courses, arguing that important aspects of intellectual development are being ignored in the current college curriculum. (MSE)

Women's Studies programs contribute little to scholarship but instead act as forums for consciousness raising and advocacy of a policy agenda. Women and feminism can be the subject of respectable course work, but such work is best undertaken in traditional departments. (KH)

The historical and potential modern role of rhetoric in a liberal arts education is examined, and it is concluded that the cultivation of the liberal arts is crucial to the courage to be and to become. (MSE)

This is a workshop designed to help high school change teams increase their understanding of personalized learning and learn ways to adapt existing practices to improve student engagement. The series draws from six years of assisting schools that have been struggling to find ways for their diverse students to meet uniform expectations. It is also…

This workshop stresses the importance of advisories to the learning process. It stresses that relationships and the personalization of learning are fundamentals to the learning process both in and out of school. It suggests that advisory groups, even in large schools, create the conditions for improving student achievement and behavior and enrich…

This paper discusses vocationalism versus a utilitarian view of the university in the context of funding and inclusion of pre-professional writing courses in a liberal arts education. It begins by describing a situation in which pre-professional writing courses for medicine, law, and business might be eliminated, based on their vocational…

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…

The innovative energies directed toward high school and freshman college geography in recent years could now be turned to upper division curricula with advantage. (Author)

Discusses the formation of a conceptual framework for studying mathematics by stressing six principles. Instruction structured on these principles is illustrated and a curriculum for the first two collegiate years is outlined. (JP)

A description of the problems involved in developing an educational media course for pre- and in-service classroom teachers. (AK)

A description of an individualized instructional program in which undergraduate students perform an instructional role. (AK)

The author reviews the relevance and importance of including the entire range of piano skills in the curriculum of non-piano music majors. (JG)