Provides selected references to help college faculty integrate women's studies into the college curriculum and gives examples of integration projects along with methodologies. Offers resources for integration into the liberal arts curriculum but does not include references for integration into specific academic disciplines. (LS)

Articles on the literary canon include: "Contingencies of Value" (Barbara Herrnstein Smith); "Canon Fodder, the Cultural Hustle, and the Minotaur" (R. T. Smith); "Curriculum Battles and Global Politics" (Betty Jean Craige); "The Feminist Challenge to the Canon" (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese); and "Education…

Philosophy is a basic subject that should be required in high school and in college. It is an essential element in an educated person's body of knowledge, interesting in its own right at the elementary level. (MSE)

Describes the ways regional/institutional and programmatic/specialized accreditation influence the community college curriculum. Considers effects on mission and goals, program review, general education and specialty requirements, remediation, nontraditional programs, contract education, and outcomes assessment. (DMM)

Measures of student achievement must be linked to the characteristics of academic programs. The Differential Coursework Patterns Project at Iowa State University was used by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as a method of linking outcome measures to program data. Results are discussed. (Author/MLW)

In two decades and despite some resistance, multicultural education has progressed from an idea to a concept that has achieved some institutionalization in higher education. Demographic and global economic change reinforce this trend. Institutions of higher education should have as a primary objective the graduating of students who have not only…

Addresses the epistemological questions that undergird curriculum debates in higher education over the value and vitality of a canon, a need for intellectual and cultural homogeneity, and the articulation of norms for scholarly inquiry. Challenges general education to communicate the value-ladenness of allegedly objective curricula, events, and…

The use of a learning community approach to college curriculum design is explored, and examples are drawn from the following Temple University (Pennsylvania) and the following Washington colleges: Evergreen State College, North Seattle and Seattle Central Community College, Tacoma Community College, and Lower Columbia College. Contacts for further…

Strategies for locating interdisciplinary knowledge and information for development of college curricula and instruction are outlined, including identification of existing curriculum models and syllabi (through publications, networking, and online searching) and finding literature on the concept of interdisciplinarity in the humanities, social…

Recently, higher education policy and practice has become dominated by materialism, individualism, and competitiveness, at the expense of attention to the affective aspect of student development and, in a broader perspective, to the emotional and spiritual divisions that threaten humanity. Higher education can and should be more constructive. (MSE)

"Politically correct" outlooks are to be neither wholly accepted nor wholly rejected; they are to be learned from. The self-scrutiny bred by concern about political correctness is an important part of the university tradition; and without it, colleges could not experience their current growing diversity. (MSE)

The roles of specialized, discipline-specific education and interdisciplinary study in German higher education are discussed, particularly as they pertain to the sciences. It is concluded that learning in the individual disciplines should form a basis on which interdisciplinary study builds parallel, social learning. (MSE)

Describes a study conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to investigate the liberal arts credit offerings of 164 community colleges nationwide. Considers the make-up of the college curriculum, trends in course level (remedial, standard, or advanced), average class size, and total enrollments. (DMM)

Increasingly, gay and lesbian college students are pressuring institutions to bring their practices more in line with their rhetoric in such areas as Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) eligibility, curricular reform for inclusion of gay and lesbian studies, and improvement in the campus environment for these students. (MSE)

A discussion of the increasing conservatism on college campuses looks at education's heritage of cultural geneticism and at the role of the humanities in higher education. It is concluded that cultural diversity must be included, not superficially but in every aspect of the college curriculum. (Author/MSE)