The document addresses remedial or developmental programs in postsecondary California education. It also presents the results of the 1998 basic skills survey of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges' Basic Skills Ad Hoc Committee. Basic Skills courses usually refer to precollegiate basic skills courses. These are courses designed…

This issue of "New Directions for Community Colleges" focuses on the community college curriculum. The articles are based on a study of the college catalogs and course schedules from 164 colleges. The featured articles are: (1) "A Historical and Contemporary View of the Community College Curriculum" (Gwyer Schuyler); (2) "The Liberal Arts"…

This paper describes a successful learning community and curricular experiments with basic writing implemented on a college campus as an example of curricular structures that enable faculty and staff to work together to address students' individual needs. The paper begins by discussing learning communities as effective and flexible institutional…

This guide is intended to help college faculty and administrators initiate, plan, and conduct faculty development and curriculum projects concerned with incorporating the content and perspectives of women's studies and ethnic studies into college curricula. It describes the major stages and components of successful curriculum transformation…

A survey of University of Maryland students indicated a need and desire for women's studies courses; differences in male and female response regarding the proposed courses are noted. (NJ)

Reports the development of African and Afro-American Studies in a consortium of six black colleges, reviewing adopted approaches in respect of the project's major thrusts: faculty development, curricular development and cultural enrichment in the areas of the social sciences, literature, arts, humanities, and the life sciences. (Author/JM)

An analysis of speech communication programs in Western Canada, their current status and future possibilities. (RN)

Offers an untraditional approach to the freshman year in college based on various notions including the formulated concept of Functional Potential (FP). (DS)

Special Urban Issue. Papers on Urbanizing Society distributed in 1970 by the National University Extension Association (NUEA). Copies of the total report are available from Institute for Community Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48823. (DS)

Author emphasizes the need to reevaluate Social Foundations courses and to rethink about where such courses belong in a student's education. (Author/RY)

After surveying critically recent innovation in college teaching, the author concludes that: a teacher's responsibility is to arrange optimum conditions for other people to learn. He creates relationships between himself and students and among students themselves in which students share power and responsibility as well as information in the…

Examines major factors leading to increased public concern about environmental problems. Explains objectives of environmental education program at the University of Michigan. Proposes solutions to resolution of environmental problems. (LK)

Criticizes role of junior college as supplier of workers and technicians for American business-industrial complex. (RT)