Yale's Media Design Studio, founded in 1974 with financial support from several foundations, aims to bring scholars and media people together to develop, design, and produce materials in forms other than print. A genuine collaborative effort exists between the academic and the media artist, creating films from submitted proposals. (LBH)

A midstream report of an ambitious attempt to make the University of Massachusetts School of Education the flagship of teacher-training reform. (Editor/IR)

When traditional methods of teaching composition--such as those based on great books or emulation of models--failed, the author found that television was useful for teaching necessary skills. His University of Michigan freshman composition course, based strictly on television programs, is discussed. (JMD)

An approach to the teaching of composition undertaken by the University of South Carolina writing laboratory is described in which the objective is to educate students and teachers in the composition process and to discover more about how writing is learned. Focus is on helping people learn to think. (LBH)

The overseas studies program and cross-cultural general studies for freshmen at Lewis and Clark College are described. The overseas program sends students abroad "regardless of class status, grade point average, or major." All the general studies sequences are team taught, without a primary text, using a comprehensive reading list. (MLW)

Discussed is the difficulty encountered in teaching humanities to underprepared students at Florida A & M University, where 90 percent of the students are in the special admissions category that permits enrollment of students who score below the entrance requirement. Administrative neglect of the humanities is also addressed. (JMD)

Eastern Michigan University's experience with use of hypothetical classroom cases to promote discussion of teaching among faculty is examined. The technique has been found to be useful, adaptable to a wide range of disciplines and needs, and an effective catalyst in efforts to improve instruction. Case writers may benefit most. (MSE)