The conference participants agreed on the great need for workers in the helping services. The manpower shortage continues to grow because of diverse pressures for new patterns in health, education, and welfare. The conference emphasized the role of liberal arts colleges in the education, at the undergraduate level, of helping service personnel.…

Describes efforts by the Association of American Colleges and Universities in its American Commitments initiative to foster diversity in the context of undergraduate courses that probe the complexities of such democratic values as equality, opportunity, freedom, and justice. (DB)

Discusses the Maury River Alliance (MRA), a cooperative program developed at the Washington and Lee University that involved local colleges, high schools, government agencies, and conservation groups. Addresses the connection between land use and water quality with a creative merging of technical, social, and educational aspects of local watershed…

The innovative energies directed toward high school and freshman college geography in recent years could now be turned to upper division curricula with advantage. (Author)

A description of an individualized instructional program in which undergraduate students perform an instructional role. (AK)

Describes strategic changes at Richland College including the consolidation and expansion of special programs through the Office of Academic Enrichment, and institutional improvements involving student learning undertaken during the process of re-accreditation. (EV)

Describes the process undertaken at King's College to create an invigorated teaching and learning environment, including a new Core Curriculum designed to ensure that students engage in cumulative and transferable learning in three general areas. (EV)

Reports on a study that investigated curricular patterns in undergraduate music education courses and attempted to determine predictor variables for these patterns. Concludes that although a core content can be identified, data indicates inconsistencies in curricula across institutions and a lack of agreement regarding priorities in some content…

In 2003, the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan, established the e-School, Japan's first complete undergraduate correspondence courses enabling students to acquire their bachelor degrees solely through e-learning. Supported by the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections, it has become possible to transmit…

This series of exercises is designed to provide undergraduate students with some experiences to deepen and clarify their understanding of the various approaches to personality. The exercises include the semantic differential, modeling, systematic desensitization, shaping, role construct repertory, free association, and approach-avoidance…

A comprehensive undergraduate engineering program must provide opportunities for the application of theoretical concepts to the solution of realistic engineering problems. As digital systems and computer engineering concepts are integrated into the undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum, many departments are revising their laboratory…

This monograph examines the literature on undergraduate curriculum improvement from 2 perspectives. One is the National Laboratory for Higher Education's assumption of the "intimate interrelationship" among teaching, instruction, and the curriculum. The other is that of the author who considers the topic within a framework of 4 components: the…

Discusses a program in which home economics majors are assigned several weeks of practice teaching in elementary school situations during their sophomore year. (Editor/SB)