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

Describes the new innovative college recently added to the Washington State System. (HS)

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)

How the author improved his teaching methods. (HS)

Questionnaire data indicates the 10 innovations in higher education most likely to receive support from administrators: field experience, independent study, instructional technology, innovative graduate programs, faculty promotion and retention, nontraditional studies, school-community relationship, student evaluation, educational philosophy and…

Explores how, although individual innovations like collaborative learning, service learning, or the use of technology in teaching are finding their way onto some campuses, a holistic approach that looks at teaching and learning strategies from an integrated perspective may offer the greatest impact. (EV)

The Colorado College plan divides the academic year into blocks of three and one-half weeks each, separated by breaks of four and one-half days. The results of this schedule are closer contact with students and faculty and more intense study. (Author/PG)

A thoughful scholar discusses the founding of a remarkable new learning community to aid mankind in facing the future. (Editor)

Discusses how dire, long-term financial pressures for both public and private colleges and universities could lead to a fundamental restructuring of their organizational and learning systems around the most promising innovations in teaching and learning. Offers three organizing principles and seven transformative actions. (EV)

Why is it so hard for colleges and universities to change? Why do even innovative institutions that invest considerable time and effort in attempts to improve performance often fall back into long-established patterns? Why is the whole of educational innovation often less than the sum of the parts? Consider three colleges and universities.…

Describes the Navy's Program for Afloat College Education (PACE) administered by Chapman College for Western Pacific ships. (PG)

Maharishi International University, a 4-year liberal arts college with a student body of under 500, is a university dedicated to the propagation of transcendental meditation. (Author/PG)