Innovation implies a novel reordering of resources within a coherent process which leads to an identifiably different result. (Author)

Lack of adequate planning and internal cooperation caused the death of an experimental college. (HS)

Constant change and innovation is the major theme of the main campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and its network of campuses, field centers, and widespread job and foreign study linkages. (HS)

Deep Springs College, an experimental junior college founded in 1917, is now facing a financial crisis that may cause it to close its doors. (HS)

Attempts to bridge the "gulf of mutual incomprehension" between natural science and the humanities and suggests that exploration of recurrent themata may provide some keys to mutual understanding. (Editor)

The Mina Shaughnessy Scholars Program provides funds for innovators in postsecondary education to develop and disseminate their ideas. Its goal is to improve practice, rather than to advance knowledge, and the search is for practitioners who can make the most difference in improving postsecondary education. (MLW)

If higher education is to survive, the philosophy behind the product must change as well as the curriculum itself. (HS)

The author suggests that education researchers and supporters of research should be more modest about the potential of such research for solving all the problems of schools, colleges, and students. Priorities should include improving the quality of research, effecting demonstrably useful changes, and optimizing communication with policy makers.…

New Directions in the Humanities, a series of five-day regional conferences, involved 300 faculty and administrators from more than 90 institutions. It provided information about established NEH-grant programs to colleges whose humanities programs needed innovation or massive support. (LBH)

Etzioni, one of the most visible of the new genre of policy researchers, is a sociologist at Columbia University who founded the Center for Policy Research in 1968 with a federal grant. He feels that policy research that does not result in policy change can never be accounted wholly successful. (LBH)

The key to an American corporate renaissance is the development of "participation management" skills and environments that allow for the full use of ideas that arise from within the corporation itself. Companies must relearn to trust their people and encourage them to use neglected creative capacities. (Author/MLW)

The "Getaway Special" is NASA's semiofficial program for low-budget researchers, who can arrange bookings for their own space experiments on regular flights of the space shuttle. Information about arranging for NASA to take individual experiment packages is presented. (LBH)

Yale's Media Design Studio, founded in 1974 with financial support from several foundations, aims to bring scholars and media people together to develop, design, and produce materials in forms other than print. A genuine collaborative effort exists between the academic and the media artist, creating films from submitted proposals. (LBH)

Analytical view of a major interdisciplinary experimental program. (Editor)