University-level institutions should include, in courses in the various fields, consideration of the teaching of these subjects. Curricula need not be suddenly revolutionized, but they should be gradually altered toward the needs of teachers. Cooperation between school and university is suggested, including joint seminars and practice teaching…

Proposes that all community colleges establish a minimum of one course in mass communications to help students understand the function of the mass media in contemporary society. (GW)

Discusses the development of Pilipino American studies based on the author's personal teaching experiences at UCLA. Recommends content for a comprehensive course and emphasizes the need for sensitive teachers. (LHW)

Medical educators urge that medical students be familiar with medical care costs and the impact of these costs on the delivery of health care. A survey on whether medical schools offered courses that discussed health care delivery systems, government health care policy and legislation, and medical economics is discussed. (MLW)

A 1985 survey by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California indicates that the number of campuses offering at least one credit course in gerontology has nearly doubled in the past 9 years. Courses are now available at most large campuses and are evenly distributed…

The future of geriatric education is mixed, with an increase in social recognition and support, but with uncertain public funding and reluctant acceptance by conservative clinical schools and professions. The recognition of the importance of integrated health care will support interdisciplinary education but strong vested interests in disciplinary…

Record maintenance with periodic record audits, conducted by student peer auditors, became part of the curriculum of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. A review to determine whether the quality of record keeping in the dental clinics had improved as a result of the audit program is reported. (MLW)

Calculus provides the language for expressing the differential equations that govern change and also the methods for solving them. In order to insure that more Americans qualify for science-related careers, the way calculus is taught must change. (MLW)

Describes the University of Arkansas at Monticello's development and implementation of a new general education curriculum. Explains the rationale for change, process of moving the faculty toward reform, and future directions of the curriculum. (DMM)

Carving up the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum to accommodate the expectations of all its constituencies will serve no one well. It is the faculties' responsibility to decide the aims, contents, and direction of the liberal arts. (MSE)

The rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of liberal education continue to stand in tension as they have since antiquity. The tension arises from the inherent difficulty of reconciling reason and language, the two poles of the Greek concept "logos". (MSE)

Not all of those teaching the humanities agree on a common agenda for the future, with traditional categories of instruction being encroached upon by new areas of scholarship. In the humanities, authority will no longer rest in the content of traditional texts, but in the activity of interpreting texts. (MSE)

There must be a return to classic texts in humanities instruction, but the selection of those texts is no longer simple, because of questions about (1) identifying which are classics and (2) connections made between the classic texts studied and a student's personal life. (MSE)

It is necessary to find ways to make the university a learning community, not just a place for teaching and research to coexist, accompanied by extracurricular activities. (MSE)

A framework for understanding what and how knowledge is acquired in different university disciplines is presented and tested on a variety of courses representative of several disciplines. Variables examined include concept familiarity, generality, and abstractness; differences in logical structures of disciplines; and methods considered important…