Presents excerpts relating to community and junior colleges from a President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies report. Encourages community colleges to increase enrollment in foreign languages and international studies and to develop a center for international studies. (CAM)

In its own fashion, philosophy encompasses everything and reflects the whole. Thus it has a special role in the liberal arts curriculum whose purpose is generality and breadth. Philosophy translates the generality of the liberal arts into reason and theory in an attempt to make the whole conceptually articulate. (JMD)

Despite recent attention to liberal and general education, the fine arts and their relationship to liberal education receive scant attention in terms of curricular reform at the institutional level. It is suggested that the fine arts should be an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum. (Author/MLW)

The cognitive skills approach to teaching college students, which seeks to train intelligence by explicitly developing learning and thinking skills, has been effectively used in the recent past and students taught by this method have spoken appreciatively of it. Intense verbal interaction is a distinctive feature of the approach. (MSE)

Describes North Carolina's efforts toward the articulation of vocational education programs between high schools and community colleges. Focuses primarily on the Articulation Research Project undertaken in Duplin County, its expansion to other areas of the state, and the three-tier program intended to build upon the Duplin project to include…

Higher education's problems of adjustment and survival during World War II are discussed. Topics include acceleration of college programs in general, emphasis of vocational training, and staff and equipment diversion from undergraduate teaching to the war effort. (Article originally published in 1942.) (AF)

A team of faculty members and graduate students identified major concepts and developed validated test questions for two widely used textbooks in personal hygiene classes in order to standardize norms for classes and supplement inadequate instructor's manuals. (JMF)

Reviews the historical position of community colleges toward general education and describes the present situation in terms of the results of a survey of 254 deans of instruction as to dominant curricular approaches, future plans, and perceived obstacles to change. Lists forces against and favoring general education. (AYC)

Considers some approaches in the area of specific academic course work opportunities in the development of a comprehensive human sexuality program. (Author/RK)

Describes a course developed in part to satisfy the requirement that a program in the principles of scientific integrity be part of any training program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. Contains 17 references. (DDR)

Analyzes the development of engineering programs in Portugal based on the experience acquired at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), the largest Portuguese engineering school. Describes the methodologies developed to monitor admissions and presents the analysis in terms of absolute and relative criteria based on course demand. (DDR)

Reports the status of peer-led learning, also known as Workshop Chemistry. This National Science Foundation (NSF) systemic-reform initiative focuses on general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. (DDR)

Reviews copious stream tables and provides a watershed approach to stream table exercises. Results suggest that this approach to learning the concepts of fluvial geomorphology is effective. (Contains 39 references.) (DDR)

Addresses what technology will do for higher education and what it cannot do. Advocates realism about its ability to make profits and improve pedagogical practice. (EV)

Using the example of an online service learning course, makes a case for the inclusion of service learning in higher education and the ability to do so seamlessly by using new communication technologies. (EV)