G. Rumay Alexander is a leader working to transform nursing education and address systemic racism within the nursing profession and the health care system more broadly. At the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Alexander serves as clinical professor at the School of Nursing and assistant dean for relational excellence at the Adams…

In this article, the author shares his fear that students will become accustomed to an educational experience that lacks joy and fun as a result of the changes made to education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He and his teaching colleagues have noticed that when students are learning virtually, they act much more as receivers of knowledge than…

A tension exists on college and university campuses across America today concerning how to pursue liberal, rational, open learning and, at the same time, celebrate a spirit of academic community--in short, how to exercise free expression and maintain civility. In this article, the author begins with an exploration of the boundaries of free speech,…

In an interview, two college students discuss aspects of the college experience, including the transition from high school to college, the most helpful general education and other courses, choice of major, classroom communication, curriculum relevance, effective teaching methods, and particularly important experiences and skills learned. (MSE)

College students need to experience high expectations, through internal motivation or external encouragement, to be successful learners, and a healthy college or university community expects student participation in and sharing of leadership tasks. Goals for such expectations should be defined and communicated clearly through campus policy and…

It is the responsibility of faculty as a group to preserve academic freedom by recognizing, acknowledging, and withstanding the pressures against it at every level of the academic enterprise. (MSE)

A university academic administrator reflects on the multiple aspects of leadership and collaboration in creating a community of learning. Discusses characteristics of an academic leader, designing a learning environment, faculty as academic leaders, and the foundational place of liberal arts. (DB)

It is necessary to find ways to make the university a learning community, not just a place for teaching and research to coexist, accompanied by extracurricular activities. (MSE)

Suggests that rather than being led by the rhetoric of "Walden Two" experiments with incentives and rewards, faculty development can best be informed and guided by the motives that brought faculty to the profession: autonomy, community, recognition, efficacy. (EV)

Eleven colleges worked with the Association of American Colleges to design comprehensive leadership development programs for administrators, faculty, students, support staff, and nonteaching professionals. A variety of models were developed which are intended to maximize benefits to the institution through unique combinations of college community,…

Higher education institutions must make greater efforts to help the entire campus community understand that promoting cultural diversity enhances the education of all students. Only through such a unifying approach can divisive racial and ethnic conflict be avoided and the highest ideals of a pluralistic society be achieved. (MSE)

"Intellectual community" as commonly used is based on a notion of intellectual commonality. However, the liberal arts college has become more diverse. Until higher education can offer some models for combining the values of diversity, it ought not to promote the conventional ideal of intellectual community, which favors some values over…

Liberal arts faculty are ill equipped to teach their disciplines; they are equipped to transmit the latest research results as they define the discipline. Students are not well prepared to respond; they have not been encouraged to enter into others' thinking. Under these conditions, the prospects for intellectual community are not good. (MSE)

The liberal arts curriculum has inherited the discourse of generations, all the richer and more abundant for the contributions those generations have made to it from a variety of sources. This shared human experience is Black as much as it is White, female, or international. (MSE)

It is suggested that John Dewey would today emphasize the structuring of learning environments rather than the individual interaction of a teacher and a student, as he did in the 1931 Rollins College conference on progressivism in higher education. (MSE)