Academic freedom is an institutionally specific type of liberty. It gains its character from the rules of evidence and reasoning used by communities of scientists and scholars to determine the relative value of truth-claims. One of the finest virtues of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Statement on Academic Freedom and…

This article presents a statement of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which was endorsed by member representatives at the association's 2006 annual meeting. In their statement, the Board of Directors revisit the basic principles and discuss the role of academic freedom. Four misconceptions about…

Higher education's objectivism must allow a place for alternative modes of education that allow value judgments to be made about knowledge and experience by individual members of the academic community. (HS)

The obstacles to change are analyzed, with some hints for surmounting them. Topics covered include: nontraditional studies, legal restraints, education vouchers, administrative organization, and the middle college concept. (LBH)

If we continue to educate too narrowly, too technically, too reductively, or continue to ignore a student's character, the skills and values of adaptability, and the contextuality of survival problems, then our college deserve not to survive as liberally educating institutions. (Author)

Conflicts between cognitive and affective functions of education are addressed, and it is suggested that colleges must promote the dynamics of learning and teaching, the involvement of students in the intellectual, emotional, and valuing activities that are a part of all liberal education. (LBH)

It is argued that a partnership of education, industry, and government is needed to redefine productivity in terms appropriate to the probable future. (Editor/LBH)

An aggressive reaffirmation is offered of the strength and relevance of liberal education as the foundation stone of freedom. (Editor/LBH)

Detailed examination of the history of four typical mainstream colleges in a critical period provides useful connectives to widely held beliefs about the role of the liberal arts college in the evolution of American higher education. (Editor/LBH)

Business schools have incorporated a new field of study, often called "business and society" or "business and its environment." Its aim is to understand the social, political, cultural, legal, and ethical environment in which business operates, and to help solve human and social problems facing business. (Author/LBH)

There is evidence that the engineering community is responding to objectives of integrating liberal education and increasing social consciousness of professionals. Rapid progress is not foreseen, however, since that would involve changing attitudes of engineering faculty. (Author/LBH)

If society wants knowledgeable citizens who happen to value and to need a profession or some way to make a living, then for that society liberal education still has a vital function. The restoration of the humanities to a central position in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Florida is described. (Author/LBH)

Just as the mission of a community college cannot be implemented without liberal education, neither can the missions of AAC be successful without community college involvement and participation. An increasing number of college students seeking baccalaureate degrees are beginning their college education in community colleges. (Author/LBH)

A strenuous challenge is made on the grounds of public policy to the justification of a state university college whose central program is close to the traditional pattern of liberal arts education. It is contended that the State University system of New York should look to the City University as a model rather than move in a more exclusive…

In an effort to relate higher education more effectively to the modern world and to instill in it a greater degree of social responsibility, alternative models for liberal education are suggested that use new knowledge and disciplines and address social and environmental opportunities, along with economic, political and international issues, and…