Eight categories of demands being made by Mexican American students in higher education are discussed, and some leading questions which arise in each category are presented. (NQ)

The development of academic programs focused on alternative modes of inquiry, interdisciplinary problems and value judgments. (Editor)

Guidelines are offered to curb the competition between research and academic education. (HS)

In the last two years colleges and universities in 27 states have upgraded freshman admission criteria because of the inability of many high school graduates to do college work. However, the declining number of college-age students may contribute to the lowering of standards in the 1980s. (MLF)

To ensure that cooperative education is academically sound, a unique learning methodology has been developed. Students are required to express insights from the cooperative experience which illuminate, reinterpret, or extend classroom learning. (JOW)

Criticizes the view held by an increasing number of contemporary philosophers of education that the main focus of educational philosophy should be practical, rather than theoretical. Suggests that the primary aim of philosophers of education should be to contribute to the philosophical understanding of education, not to solving its day-to-day…

This second part of a three-part essay on information science education explores the external educational concerns of academic affiliation, degree level, admissions requirements, jurisdiction and financing. The present state of these topics is discussed and cogent questions are raised for future study. (RAA)

Academic advisement has traditionally been thought of as course registration and academic record-keeping. Advisement, however, should be redefined so that developmental functions are central in order to perform a much-needed service in higher education. Faculty and advisors will need to learn some unaccustomed roles and some new skills. (Author)

The traditions of mainstream undergraduate study and adult education are facing the same challenges as mature students become undergraduates and young people attend continuing education courses. One approach would combine the academic rigor and sustained study of the university tradition with the flexibility and creativity characteristic of adult…

Outlined is the status of science-technology-society (STS) education as an academic field of study in the United States. Its success as an academic field and unresolved questions regarding the future of STS are discussed. (KR)

Case Studies to Advance Skills and Employability is a project designed to introduce a vocational dimension into academic curriculum. Key employability skills are developed as students work on real-life case situations in such areas as public sculpture, waste management, human organizations, and environmental issues. (SK)

Asserts that student learning is strongly influenced by interaction with faculty, and suggests that John Henry Newman's experience of intellectual community in the faculty common room at Oriel College in Oxford serves as a model for faculty renewal. Suggests that any revision of the general education curriculum necessarily calls for the renewal of…

Reviews the lack of sociology in the academic curriculum. Interviews women academics who introduced interdisciplinary women's studies degrees in the United Kingdom and North America. Argues that the power of established disciplines to incorporate new knowledge illustrates how academic knowledge and institutions maintain their essential…

This paper takes the position that "the general phenomenon of meta-disciplinarity should find a place in contemporary investigations into the organization and production of knowledge." In the meta-disciplinary triad of art, science, and the humanities, the humanities originated out of a distinction between the human and the divine. The history of…

An academic discipline is created and embodied in discourse, which functions on two dimensions: the global, disciplinary level suggested by T. Kuhn and others, and the local, institutional level, such as the workshop or laboratory where practitioners carry on the discipline's day-to-day business of research, teaching, and writing. The discipline…