The faculty development movement of the 1970s and 1980s is taking new directions. One model that enhances intrinsic motivations to teach well and uses institutional structures to encourage autonomy and personal initiative holds promise for undergraduate instruction. (Author/MSE)

Presented is a case study of a three-year comprehensive review and renewal of an undergraduate psychology department at a medium-sized urban university. Discussed are the antecedents or context of the review, method of review, the three stages of the renewal and revision procedure, and caveats culled from the experience. (RM)

An interview with Martin Meyerson, the President of the University of Pennsylvania, who discusses undergraduate and graduate options, grading, free learning and the role of the university president. (PG)

A re-examination of undergraduate education is necessary. Traditional four year programs, degrees available, examination requirements are among the variables which should be approached with flexibility and innovative attitudes. (Author/JB)

Discusses problems with undergraduate and graduate programs in mathematics and the physical sciences. Suggests that the BS/MS option is one way to address the problem of naive, haphazardly educated BS graduates entering narrowly focused Ph.D. programs. Argues for the need for refocusing Ph.D. programs on the needs of the student. (JRH)

By embracing and practicing a philosophy of shared governance, Kean College successfully implemented an assessment program and revamped its undergraduate curriculum. (Author/MSE)

At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, charged that students are not required to devote adequate time to general education. Changing the way the major is organized, he said, is difficult because change goes against in-grained traditions and structures. (MLW)

Discusses the future of the home economics profession and argues that those who receive graduate degrees will be critical to that future. (JOW)

Ownership and articulation of general education can transform an institution.

Academic sociologists have recently increased their focus on improving high school sociology. Reform efforts include networking between teachers and universities, improving curriculum, and enhancing teacher training. I propose that this list be expanded to include setting curricular standards. Current trends in educational reform center on…

This research uses a conceptual model to examine the influence of a change in accreditation standards on a representative national sample of 203 engineering programs at 40 institutions. Based on data collected from 147 program chairs, 1,200 faculty, 4,300 graduates of 2004, and 5,500 graduates of 1994, the study investigates the differential…

The author asks whether higher education reform has run out of new things to say. The final two decades of the twentieth century were a remarkable period for innovation in undergraduate education. Many of higher education's earlier waves of reform had focused on curricular issues, on what should be taught. The new reformers by and large ignored…

In this article we examine the recent development of Education Studies as an undergraduate subject of study in England. The evolution of Education Studies is inextricably linked to the political context which it exists to critique. Changes within teacher education have spawned education studies in a number of guises. It is only latterly that…

The Strategies for Change and Knowledge Utilization (SfCKU) watched nine colleges as the individual schools deliberated internally regarding any proposed programmatic change that would have substantial impact on undergraduate education. SfCKU would thereby gain access to decisionmaking in complex organizations. This document details the activities…

Seventeen suggestions to create an exciting innovative learning experience for undergraduate liberal arts education are listed. Suggestions concern curriculum and scheduling, requirements, work-study and professional programs, course content, and living-learning and study abroad programs. (MJM)