Colleges and universities across the country are encouraging the integration of service-learning and community-based research into the curriculum, often by establishing centers to assist in that process. The goal of this paper is to outline a set of tasks for campus-wide institutional support of service-learning that are necessary and that can…

Attention shifted in recent years from design and implementation to use and usefulness of quality assurance. Scientific studies focus increasingly on quality assurance's impact on curricula and individual teachers. Which factors influence follow-up activities and what is their relation to improvement of education? One factor that we single out is…

In this article, the author contends that the vast majority of American historians no longer regard American culture--whether high culture or mainstream popular culture--as an essential area of study. The much-vaunted culture turn in the humanities has run its course in one of the first disciplines it influenced. Indeed, most of the books today…

A list of plays on the 1974-75 production schedules of United States colleges. (CH)

Since 1980, a large increase in the number of undergraduate students majoring in international studies at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) has occurred. This paper describes the historical development and present structure of this University's international studies program and the program's relationship to other academic departments. The advantages…

This paper promotes an undergraduate course that would discuss the great ideas of Plato, St. Paul, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, B. F. Skinner, and Konrad Lorenz. This course would help students understand human values and behaviors while focusing on historical, world, and national problems. Tentative solutions would then be…

Suggests that journalism departments should develop courses in the history of journalism and presents four historical themes. (RB)

This article asserts that more efforts must be made to increase the number of health education programs at the collegiate level. (JS)

This article explores the contributions of R. Tait McKenzie to the field of physical education and sport. A brief biography shows how McKenzie influenced the development of exercise in education and physical medicine. (DF)

Compared junior and senior college students who completed a career development course (N=44) with upper-level students who did not (N=26). Results showed the career course increased students' knowledge about themselves, the world of work, and job search skills. (BH)

The expansion in the fields of optical engineering and optoelectronics has made it essential to introduce optical engineering concepts into undergraduate courses and curricula. Because of limits on the number of course requirements for the BS degree, it is not clear how these topics should be introduced without replacing some of the traditional…

Reviews the history of the creation of the College of the Virgin Islands in 1963 to satisfy local needs. Describes its programs since then until the present. (EF)

Argues the need for reading courses in college that would have equal status with other required course offerings and that would go beyond remedial reading to develop reading rates, vocabulary, and study skills. (TJ)

Reviews British, U.S., and Australian standards and models of information literacy in higher education and discusses its place in the curriculum. Identifies problems with current practice, in particular, prescriptive guidelines that encourage a surface learning approach, delivery by librarians who may lack both educational training and power to…

Looks at the history of the rhetorical arts in Canadian college and university education. (RAE)