In 2001, the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) was created to "stimulate collaboration between selected liberal arts colleges and to act as a catalyst for the effective integration of emerging and newer digital technologies into teaching, learning, scholarship, and information management." In July 2015, NITLE…

A consortium of 12 4-year, private liberal arts colleges has sought to address the promises and challenges of information technology for undergraduate education. The effort has involved identification of faculty using technology in teaching, then of their individual strategies and techniques, and the establishment of a home page on the World Wide…

This volume presents selected proceedings of a conference which focused on the need to continue to link the mission and purposes of institutions with the national need for educated citizen/leaders. The first part of the conference provided the forum for informed observers from outside the academy to identify their perceptions of the liberal arts…

The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo,…