Foreign language teachers' catalog course descriptions are criticized for using inappropriate arguments for them and for not clearly articulating the need for language study. These arguments favoring language study are categorized as sociopolitical, instrumental, and cognitive, and are examined individually. (MSE)

Despite mounting evidence suggesting that neither students' nor business's training needs have been served by it, the discipline of business administration has evolved rapidly and now links the fates of business and private higher education. There is potential for both to be improved. (MSE)

Radical college curricular experimentation in citizenship for education could make campuses more exciting places to teach and study. The curriculum can be designed around perennially important questions about community, loyalty, obedience, legitimacy, power, and justice. (Author/MSE)

The development of democratic values as preparation for citizenship is liberal education's true function. Values education should include these forms of inquiry: values analysis, awareness, assessment, alteration, and affirmation. Students can test values against the criteria of consistency, coherence, duration, adequacy, comprehensiveness,…

A conceptual model of curricular decision making that identifies curricular planning variables and clarifies the relationship among these variables is presented. Environmental inputs affecting decision making and design variables from which decisions evolve, and the relationship between input variables and curricular design are discussed.…

Contemporary arguments urging educators to return to the traditional liberal arts may be both misguided and overly simplistic. Because Western culture has undergone several felicitous intellectual revolutions (analytical, aesthetic, and professional), the modern liberal arts curriculum should reflect the agnostic, critical, perceptivist style of…

An institution's chief academic officer can encourage faculty to be responsive to student enthusiasm for experiential learning. Faculty participation in policy formation should be encouraged, keeping these standards close to all other educational standards. (MSE)

It is demonstrated that the Model Rule's policy of granting the courts final control over clinical cases and clinical legal education is simply a manifestation of their traditional authority over case conduct and the lawyers appearing before them. (Journal availability: Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA 24450, $4.00.)…

The failure of higher education to provide moral instruction has been responsible in part for the moral problems of this country. Higher education should assume this responsibility with renewed diligence through formal instruction and by colleges and universities being exemplars of ethical conduct. (Author/MSE)

A student leader and an administrator discuss the worth of values education to students of 1980, who are part of an increasingly relativistic, unsettled society in which economic matters have assumed primacy. (Author/MSE)

Considers the cultural heritage and special needs of small town and rural Americans, and stresses the importance of developing curricula and delivery systems that assist people to maintain and renew their rural life-styles and environmental conditions. (MB)

Reports the results of an informal survey of instructors and students of astronomy and authors and editors of astronomy books. Finds that not a single instructor respondent reported being satisfied with the books themselves and not one author or editor reported being satisfied with the market. (DDR)

Cornell University (New York) was among the first to remove normative religious instruction and mandatory religious practice from their previous pervasiveness in higher education. This has removed from the university the responsibility for safeguarding the cultural authority of religion and allowed religion to enter the realm of ideas to be…

This concluding chapter offers thoughts about educational philosophy and how higher education might view technology as it moves between the seemingly paradoxical ideas of making the academic experience more user-friendly and making distance education available to the masses. (EV)

Discusses the changing role of the cataloger and the lack of comprehensiveness in cataloging and classification courses offered in graduate library programs. The information that should be covered in introductory courses is outlined and the value of such courses to catalogers and noncatalogers is explored. (36 references) (CLB)