A group of faculty, scholars, and publishers were the first of several advisory panels to be convened to examine critically the role and direction of the humanities in the United States. (MSE)

Criticizes the 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities report for blaming "vocationalism" for declining humanities enrollments in colleges. Unlike other disciplines, humanities leaders seem unwilling to seek clients or to engage in self-examination. What's needed is a renaissance of educational populism, or a repackaging of the…

The American concept of religion as privileged and private acknowledges that religion can be culturally significant but suppresses informed public discourse about it. The issue of religion polarizes American education, and its study is skewed at all levels of learning. Religion should be taught as a subject, not a method. (MSE)

Provides reflections on the meaning of excellence in art education. Identifies four propositions that distinguish excellence in art education. (JDH)

Maintains that junior college humanities courses must incorporate a global perspective and that the history of Western Civilization be taught within the framework of world history. Presents goals and methods for a world civilizations course. (JDH)

Describes two methods of invigorating student research in social studies. Showcase events are culminating activities or simulations which demonstrate student learning in an active, imaginative, and involving way. Snapshots are dramatic interpretations of specific moments in time. Examples of both methods are provided along with suggestions for…

Discusses the importance of historical study within general education. Reviews the rise and fall of the Western Civilization course as the core of general education in the humanities. Suggests ways a revised version of this course can be restored to a central place in the curriculum. (AYC)

The importance of research in the humanities is underscored, and it is proposed that humanistic research does not differ in nature from activities already accepted as research and should be supported with the same commitment and through the same agencies as research in the social and natural sciences. (MSE)

Argues that the social sciences and humanities bring different attitudes and methods to the problem of meaning and that both views are flawed. Concludes that a realignment of literary studies under the aegis of rhetoric is necessary. (FL)

The liberal arts are undervalued because many do not understand what thinking entails. Empirical reasoning is only one facet of thought; interpretation and evaluation are just as critical and are what the liberal arts teach. This imbalance that permeates the system of higher education is discussed. (Author/MLW)

Religion and science have become polarized in modern society, a conflict characteristic of the humanities generally. Comparative religion has a place among the other humanities disciplines, since religion and science have a relationship whose roots go to the basis of our cultural tradition. (MSE)

Offers advice to English department chairs on the behavior of academic departments. (AEA)

Presented is the thesis that the solution of environmental problems must deal with the cause as well as the symptoms. It is asserted that treatment of the cause will involve the reshaping of man's understanding of himself and his need for control and power through environmental education. (SL)

A report is made on the Conference on Alternative Careers for Doctoral Degree Recipients in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts, held in October 1975, sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan. (RM)

This report reviews the requirements for infrastructure for research in the arts and humanities in United Kingdom universities and colleges. It assesses the extent of remedial investment required and sets out the conditions needed to manage this research infrastructure on a sustainable basis. The requirements for arts and humanities research that…