If higher education is to contribute to society's betterment, it must aim to produce people of character. This requires basic principles of liberal arts education including time, an appropriate setting, opportunity for observation, and conversation. Religious faith also makes a contribution. Although many colleges and universities attempt to…

Whereas higher education in general has not fully met its responsibility for preparing individuals for international citizenship, a group of 50 small, selective, independent liberal arts colleges has made a substantial contribution through their long-standing commitments to international matters in both curriculum and institutional environment.…

Many different kinds of incentives and support structures must be established in order to provide a campus environment in which instructional computing can flourish. Innovative academic computing programs at six liberal arts colleges (Colby, Hamline, Marymount, Smith, Swarthmore, and Wells) are reported. (Author/MLW)

A college, it is argued, should be a place where basic assumptions are examined; where trained minds weigh options; where schools of thought are developed; and where social, political, and moral ramifications of that thought are tested. (MLW)

Faced with changes in the 1980s, college and universities with religious ties must rethink both their identity and what constitutes the proper college-church relationship. Six components of program identity are identified: structural, communal, personal, moral, spiritual, and educational. Cooperative efforts to identify and discuss issues are…