In this paper, we analyzed 50 faculty interviews to explore the function of colleagueship across different types of institutions. Our findings highlight that colleagueship served toward the improvement of teaching, disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning, securing one's research agenda, career management, and friendship. We attend to the…

The paper examines the role of experiential learning programs such as cooperative education and internship programs as a method of enhancing student learning and cognitive development in the liberal arts. The literature review begins by examining the goals of a liberal education as they relate to field experience. The outcomes of field experience…

Student development philosophy, based solely on the behavioral sciences and a romantic humanistic philosophy, is not adequate for meeting human needs in contemporary society. The concepts of holism, humanism, pragmatism, and individualism are all part of this student development philosophy but have been distorted. The literature on student…

Nursing literature from 1893-1923 is reviewed for insights into what nurse educators believed to be the role of liberal education in the nursing profession, the anticipated effects of liberal education on nursing, and the relationship of the articulation of these beliefs to the development of collegiate-level nursing programs. (MSE)

Important factors to be considered in the development of new career programs and sources of further guidance and information are reviewed. (MSE)

In the continuing conflict between liberal arts and vocationalism, important career axioms are suggested. Those who live only narrow vocational disciplines shall perish with them. Today's shortage is tomorrow's vocational surplus. One must not be unduly influenced by current vocational fads. Long-run intellectual adaptability produces maximum…

Traces the magnitude of the turn away from the liberal arts in American community colleges and suggests ways that faculty members in literature and the humanities might accommodate themselves to this change. (HOD)

Reform efforts in liberal education are usually launched without regard for the history and current scholarship of the field, leaving recreations of personal experience and political wrangling as the principal sources of influence on new programs. A reconsideration of liberal education, its role in the university and society, is discussed.…

Researchers identified two divergent theories concerning ethics education. The first states that ethics education increases an individual's ability to reason critically when confronted with decisions through the identification and analysis of problems and various outcomes. The second suggests that ethics training is about manipulating core values…

Reviews development of technological literacy in liberal arts curriculum, especially efforts of Sloan Foundation. Observes that few general education courses with technology content are taught by industrial educators; focus of the new liberal arts is on understanding how technology works; quantitative skills are vital; and social and human…

This article focuses on research identifying the value-added outcomes perceived by adults completing a liberal arts degree. These outcomes are compared with those of traditional-aged college graduates. The personal growth gains indicated by the adults provide support for justifying special degree programs. (SK)

In the vision of workplace past, work and education combined to improve productivity; in workplace present, workers are deficient and need specialized training. Workplace future must reconceptualize work, addressing race, sex, and class bias and making families and subsistence production, rather than commodity production, the centerpiece. (SK)

Traces evolution of the medieval university's role in providing professional education. Argues that medieval universities evolved from two types of institutions--guilds and cathedral schools--into institutions that offered training in intellectual professions (theology, medicine, and law) but required prior mastery in liberal arts. The European…

This study, a synthesis of 51 published prescriptive essays and program reports from 1978 to 1997, follows the development of honors programs in comprehensive community colleges. Despite arguments that programs of this sort betray the institution's democratic imperative by implying academic elitism, diverting needed funds from…

In working to integrate liberal and professional education in the undergraduate curriculum, the various faculties must begin to have systematic conversations with each other to discover their common ground and the potential for working together. (MSE)