Offers six organizational principles for restructuring liberal education focusing on educational coherence and commonality, institutional commitment, alternative models, undergraduate educational needs, and political responsiveness. (DMM)

The author cites reasons for having academic teachers on advisory committees: strengthens the link between academic and vocational courses and links the hands-on aspect of vocational education to academic skills. The author suggests ways to help select academic teachers for vocational advisory committees and to involve these teachers in vocational…

Details the process used to evolve a significant comprehensive liberal arts program at The University of Iowa. The process included four evolutionary stages: reassessing cooperative education, reappraising the University and its changing needs, building consensus among faculty and the administration, and integrating cooperative education into the…

If planning is to succeed in higher education, radical changes must be made in the way in which the process is conceptualized and implemented. Philosophical assumptions and operational guidelines are identified, and a strategic planning process model is described. (MLW)

Curriculum integration (CI) is an educational strategy aimed primarily at students who take significant numbers of both academic and vocational courses either as part of a formal program or on their own. Its goal is to enhance the learning of these students by breaking down the traditional barrier that exists in most schools between the two…

A hypothetical conversation which suggests that librarians are perhaps better equipped than teachers to advise students about what they should read because today's teacher is unable to keep up with what's coming out. Librarians can also provide the students with lectures. (CH)

Discusses the importance of the good noninnovative'' high school in the educational system. (Author/DN)

Defines the concept of comprehensive high school, reviews the inadequacies of the present system of academic and vocational high schools, and discusses changing high school programs to satisfy student needs. (JM)

The guidance concerned with vocational education is involved with many different groups in the school and community. (BC)

A student's priorities should stress his formal education rather than emphasize student affairs and community involvement. (LN)

Higher education's contemporary emergence as a scholarly specialty is compared with the development of some other specialities--economics, political science, sociology. An interpretation of how fields become disciplines is offered and some parallels between the social sciences at the turn of the century and higher education today are explored.…

After introducing the scientific method, nonscience students are given a two-part assignment: writing a research proposal and conducting the proposed research. Eight examples of student research projects are provided, including general comments about and student evaluations of the research project assignment. (JN)