The New School's Human Relations Center has produced some highly imaginative educational services for urban and suburban women. (Editor)

Discusses an essay assailing the new pluralistic consciousness as a danger to individuality and personal autonomy. (Editor)

Liberal arts colleges, with an emphasis on development of the whole person and on freedom of the mind and spirit, provide a significant link with the traditions of democracy. (Author/KE)

A faculty member at Amherst discusses the challenges that have shaken his "self-edifice." He says there was strain "in the scrambling, adjusting, re-doing, remodeling of the mind, and in the constant collisions with past fatuity and obliviousness." Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is recommended. (MLW)

Timothy E. McCracken and W. Allen Ashby, English composition professors at Union College, are interviewed as to their methods, attitudes, and philosophies of teaching. They suggest that a student needs a sense of himself as a prerequisite for writing. (LBH)

It is proposed that the institutionalization of instruction has brought with it a reduction in the pleasure of teaching itself and also in the excitement of learning. Common doubts and conflicts for college faculty are discussed. (MSE)

Writers and artists near or in retirement need some device for keeping the creative forces alive. A project proposed by William Plater at the University of Illinois calls for a series of contemporary, or living, history courses by emeriti professors whose own contributions may have shaped their fields. (MLW)

The role of the mentor is traced in the literature of adult developmental psychology. Four primary elements of that role are: pointing the way at a developmental crossroad, offering material and/or emotional support, challenging, and letting go at the appropriate time. (MSE)

Examines the various stages of human development (as outlined by Erik Erikson and others) with their psychological stresses of recurring crises of identity and expectation and explores some of the implications for education's best serving human needs. Focuses on early childhood, late adolescence, middle age, and old age. (JT)

A questionnaire survey of graduates of University of Michigan's Residential College during 1971-1974 indicates that those students were not disadvantaged in the competition for postgraduate and occupational opportunities. The strengths of RC and other experimental colleges lie in their energetic cultural, social, and political life. (LBH)

Notes a chasm between cultural and occupational aspirations (for self-realization) and the existing job market. Suggests the opening of a new sector of people work, e.g. services for the very young and very old, urban and community task forces, political participation groups, agencies for intergroup conflict resolution, etc. (JT)

Temple University's Faculty Seminar is an ongoing group of concerned faculty trying to do something about the problems facing higher education. Temple's Gateway Program offers a seminar, mentor system, and other services to help university staff assess their own capacities, goals, and lifelong learning needs. (Author/MSE)

A former college president's wife outlines the traditional role of the president's spouse and her experiences and perceptions of its pleasures and problems. Among the topics discussed are the lack of job description, time constraints, effects on personal and family life, effects on relationships, public relations, entertaining, and supervising the…

Traditionally, the goals of a liberal arts education have been expressed in terms of "self-actualization,""self-realization," and other terms implying self-fulfillment. The reality is that focus on measurable "achievements" tends to put students out of touch with the functioning of their own psyches. (MLW)