Article presented at the convention of the Music Educators National Conference (Seattle, March 17, 1968).

Extrapolating trends from the past, particularly since the middle ages and the renaissance, the author posits probable and possible structure, tendencies for the future role, activities, and content of American higher education. (SJL)

In our summer 2006 issue, we ran a comprehensive overview of how postmodernism has degraded composition on our campuses. Steve Kogan enlarges that indictment and charges that the movement has deliberately corrupted every area of English instruction--from the acquisition of skills and knowledge to the more fundamental mission of developing in…

Women's Studies programs contribute little to scholarship but instead act as forums for consciousness raising and advocacy of a policy agenda. Women and feminism can be the subject of respectable course work, but such work is best undertaken in traditional departments. (KH)

The historical and potential modern role of rhetoric in a liberal arts education is examined, and it is concluded that the cultivation of the liberal arts is crucial to the courage to be and to become. (MSE)

Presents the rationale and requirements for Idaho State University's newly-instituted Doctor of Arts degree in English. (RD)

Highlights major features of policy analysis as a field of study in higher education, focusing on 1) origins of the field, 2) major tracks of study, 3) approach and content of the subject matter, 4) developing relationships to public service, and 5) unresolved educational issues. (Author)

Philosophy should teach respect for reason, respect for the classics, and respect for the radical criticisms of the twentieth century. It is the only university discipline that takes the development of informed discretion as its primary pedagogical task. (MSE)

The role and function of the American university in a rapidly changing society are discussed. (DB)

Focusing on general education literature published in the last five years, summarizes current concerns. Focuses on definitions of general education, its content and outcomes, and new curricular developments. (DMM)

Some major circumstances that require the development of new curriculum models are briefly discussed, and a statement of what a curriculum model must include to be viable is presented. (Article originally published in 1965.) (AF)

The recent vehement and highly visible critique of the North American business school curriculum illuminates core tensions in the field of human resource development (HRD) related to the role and responsibility of the profession in for-profit organizations and the educative process by which future practitioners are prepared. If the business school…

Eighteen months after soundly criticizing a new Harvard general education that proposed to abandon the concept of a structured general education, substituting a minimum distribution requirement under which students could choose a few courses from hundreds offered by the faculty, the writer applauds the shift, encouraged by interim president Derek…

Some cautionary notes about interdisciplinary programs are offered. (JH)