The humanistic orientation of students at different points in their law school experiences was examined to determine whether this value changed markedly from entrance to graduation, and whether alumni practitioners and teachers held the same or different views from their students.

During the sixties, community college planners were conservative in their attitudes toward integrated humanities or interdisciplinary courses, but two-year college enrollments have changed and so have those attitudes. Examples of current approaches are described. (LBH)

The National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., a major center of intellectual thought that has been established through a predominantly private effort, is described. The creation of a national center for the humanities, site selection, applicant selection, and the endowment campaign are discussed. (MLW)

Students in the best universities do not believe in anything, and those universities are doing nothing about it. The great questions--God, freedom, and immortality--hardly touch the young. The universities have no vision, no view of what a human being must know in order to be considered educated. (MLW)

This seven-item annotated bibliography reviews such issues as career education, experiential learning, computer literacy, and community involvement as they relate to course content and methods of teaching.

The new Rockefeller Foundation's Commission on the Humanities' report is discussed. Some of the commission's recommendations include: improved quality of elementary and secondary schools, strengthening of humanities research, reaffirmation within education of the values of the humanities, and closer collaboration of educational and cultural…

Educators of the eighties and nineties, it is suggested, are responsible for making sure that Americans enter the twenty-first century with a view as wide as the world. The widest and most neglected frontier of United States educational reform is seen as a global perspective on all studies. (MLW)

How best to organize the university in the interest of global awareness and ways in which existing and potential capabilities for international studies can be translated into reality are discussed. The world view, global awareness, and the international dimension, it is suggested, must grow out of a perceived need. (MLW)

Traditionally, the goals of a liberal arts education have been expressed in terms of "self-actualization,""self-realization," and other terms implying self-fulfillment. The reality is that focus on measurable "achievements" tends to put students out of touch with the functioning of their own psyches. (MLW)

With the help of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a plan to infuse preprofessional training with the humanities is now halfway through its second year of operation at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Participating students and faculty in medicine and health-related fields, law, engineering, and business are participating in this…

The relationship between leadership and liberal learning is discussed. The education of leaders is seen as having become denigrated as elitist, and liberal learning attacked as useless and aristocratic. It is suggested that the goal of mass higher education can be achieved without abandoning a commitment to the education of leaders. (MLW)

A view of events at City College of New York during the 1970s when an open admissions policy was initiated is discussed by the eighth president of the college. At CUNY, the objective was to provide remediation, counseling, and tutoring in order to maximize the possibility of success. (MLW)

The Council on Learning's national conference of a representative segment of academic leadership held a discussion to elicit comments on the Council's Education and World View project. Internationalization of courses, language requirements, multicultural education, community colleges, teacher education, and undergraduate education are discussed.…

The future of liberal education is dictated by several needs: to rediscover man and the meaning of human life; to give meaning, purpose, and direction to our days; to reinvigorate our society and our world. Liberally educated students must learn to think, to express themselves, and to evaluate. (MLW)