The effects of pluralism on today's college campuses are intense. The place held by religion in this context is often awkward, but as a dimension of diversity and a potent force in human interaction, it deserves the same tolerance as any other aspect of pluralism and should not be trivialized. (MSE)

Historically, by focusing on entering student characteristics, higher education has looked at the problems students bring to an institution. It is time to shift the framework from just assisting or accommodating those who are different to creating a campus world that is not alien and promotes success. (MSE)

The higher education community is urged to adapt the university to the 21st century. Five specific ways to initiate this change include: sharing expertise within and beyond the university, reflecting on the breadth and relevance of one's work, using new technologies to extend teaching and communication, diversifying the scholarly community, and…

Problems associated with the establishment of speech codes on college campuses, in response to hate speech, are examined. An inventory of speech regulations already in effect at 384 colleges and universities, by Arati R. Korwar, is also presented. The summary organizes behavior and related policy into 13 categories. (MSE)

Reviews the contributions that academic deans can make to community colleges' scholarly endeavors (e.g., developing the college's intellectual climate, supporting professional development opportunities, fostering student scholarship, and undertaking his/her own scholarly activities). (DMM)

Discusses Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" and its implications for higher education. Examines Bloom's analysis of historical changes that involved universities in societal pressures, thereby weakening them. Supports Bloom's mandate that universities delineate their function and measure achievement against the fundamental…

Reviews the major themes that need to be addressed in nurturing scholarship at the community college (i.e., a broad definition of scholarship; faculty ties to the disciplines; leaders as scholars; professionalization of the college culture; and the development of a community of scholars). (DMM)

To address the sources of stress in academic life requires an understanding of the multiple worlds within which faculty work and which create the complex tapestry of their lives. The use of short-term and long-term strategies can help faculty gain more control over the elements in their lives. (MLW)

Steps in making a higher education institution a multicultural place of learning include expressing mission in terms of human cultures, developing faculty for excellence in multiculturalism, evaluating curricula with regard to different ways human cultures have focused on issues, ensuring that perspectives offered are not monocultural, and…

Describes the present impossibility of receiving a liberal education in the United States, except by chance. Calls upon Catholic institutions of higher education to begin rectifying this problem. Cites the work of Allan Bloom, Richard Neuhaus, Aristotle, and Thomas Jefferson. (CH)

A college professor examines her feelings about working in a university, her attempts to create a more supportive and congenial relationship with fellow teachers, and the frustrations of an environment in which colleagues are out of daily communication because of workload and the need and ability to work at home. (MSE)

The traditional college classroom has a distinct culture to which educators have been blind, assuming that the classroom is culturally neutral. It often constrains the success of students from other cultural backgrounds. The alternate cultures of white women and men and women of color have implications for improvement of instructional design.…

Anti-intellectualism and negative public attitudes about the professoriate are traced to four sources: (1) unquestioned supremacy of economic over cultural capital in the United States; (2) lack of organizational vehicles for faculty to contribute to social change and public debate; (3) unfair competition from policy institutes and foundations;…

A university-educated art historian examines her transition to teaching at a small southern college. Challenges faced included a new clientele of students, the metamorphosis from graduate student to content expert, committee demands and overcommitment, and finding a personal niche. Significant benefits of small-college professional life are also…

The revolution in higher education being produced by advances in information technology brings these challenges: understanding what new skills students must master; making the distributed-learning environment an asset for interpersonal interaction; creating physical and virtual campuses that complement one another; creating large-scale…