A national survey of faculty (N=2,311) teaching introductory college courses revealed 10 factors influencing course planning including: discipline-related content, student characteristics, facilities, resources, and campus support services. The strength of these influences differed substantially by discipline but only modestly by institutional…

Analyzes the development of education science based on a research project at the University of Freiburg (West Germany). Uses content analysis to examine doctoral and habilitation theses submitted between 1945 and 1985. Examines the extent to which the processes of differentiation, specialization, and formation processes can be reconstructed on the…

This article discusses the rationale for athletic trainer education and describes a degree option in physical education, exercise science and human performance, created at the University of Toledo. The human performance option includes a track which allows a concentration in athletic training. (IAH)

This article focuses on the epistemological changes evident in twentieth-century educational reform in China. Reflections on linkages between knowledge and modernization, based on sociological literature, are presented. The Chinese knowledge tradition, current changes in the higher education curriculum, and curricular experiments at six…

Responds to four conference papers (same issue; see CS 737 952 to CS 737 955) on the range of tasks confronting administrators of speech departments as they cope with current difficulties and look toward the next decade. Responds from the viewpoints of both the faculty member of a department and a dean or higher administrator. (MS)

A discussion of research needs concerning higher education-industry collaboration in Europe looks at the impact of such collaboration in five areas: institutional autonomy, the status of continuing education, relations between university and non-university education, relationships between basic and applied research, and disciplines not normally…

Follow-up activities are essential to maintaining a writing-across-the-curriculum program. La Salle University created a second stage of program development through new workshops and symposia, collaborative teaching and co-authoring, and opportunities for student involvement. (MSE)

An annotated directory of writing-across-the-curriculum programs in two-year and four-year institutions in the United States and Canada, based on a 1987 survey, is presented. Annotations contain contact names and addresses and information about program design and components. (MSE)

Two innovative projects at the University of Utrecht, women's studies and the management and policy program, and the role of incentives in these particular cases are evaluated. Problems with innovation and decision making, entrepreneurial innovation and the planning process, and the organization of innovative projects are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Observation of 401 college teachers indicates that teachers of different academic disciplines (arts/humanities, social sciences, natural sciences/mathematics) differ in the frequency of specific classroom teaching behaviors, but that what makes an effective teacher, in the perception of students, is consistent regardless of discipline.…

Maintains that the founding of the School of Music at the University of Illinois in 1892 was the result of a decade of effort by teachers, students, and administrators. Describes the history of music education at the University from the 1870s until the founding of the music school. Discusses the curriculum and music activities during the founding…

A discussion of the role of specialization within intellectual disciplines looks at three related aspects of any discipline (history, cognition, culture), then gives an account of an English course reflecting the author's specialized intellectual interest. It is argued that a better understanding of scholarly activity is needed. (MSE)

A former women's studies professor is critical of the field's current direction and its perceived intolerance of criticism. "Games" played by feminists are cited, including their use of language, rejection of any masculinism, reduction of all issues to gender alone, denial of biological reality, and fostering a politics of identity. A broader…

New data on the economic benefits of attainment of a bachelor's degree, based on some corrections in statistical analyses of national longitudinal data, are reported. Results and conclusions did not change substantially, with substantial variations found among fields of study but not across institution types. (MSE)

A discussion of undergraduate higher education in the United Kingdom focuses on the history of interdisciplinary study and its current state and future prospect. It is argued that, in the 1970s, higher education failed to analyze thoroughly the nature of disciplines, resulting in a decontextualized view of interdisciplinarity. (MSE)