This report on reforming the undergraduate curriculum begins with a review of the development of curricular theory and an examination of both the current issues in the reform debate and the attendant roadblocks to achieving real curricular improvement. Section I outlines some curricular proposals that could conceivably serve as models for the…

With a new accepting opinion toward religious studies, already exemplified by courses and departments in secondary schools, universities, and state colleges, a need exists for the expansion of religious studies in the junior colleges. Teaching religion, especially the history and study of comparative religions, is considered legal as long as…

In 1969 Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, launched a new integrated curriculum that emphasized interdisciplinary studies and increased student freedom and responsibility. All traditional, discipline-oriented graduation requirements were eliminated in favor of new nondepartmental courses, more electives, and more individual faculty attention for…

New York City's Experimental Elementary Programs are examined, with particular focus on why the funds allocated went for "business as usual." (RC)

Questions are posed concerning the "back to basics" movement and rural schools. (KR)

The author describes how he developed a method of evaluating and comparing management courses of different types and lengths by applying an ordinal system of relative values using a process of transmutation. (MS)

The author shows how an ordinal system he developed for evaluating different types of management courses can be used to establish the value or success of a certain subject in a variety of courses. (MS)

Annotated list of organizations and periodicals concerned with innovative education. (PG)

Lack of adequate planning and internal cooperation caused the death of an experimental college. (HS)

Constant change and innovation is the major theme of the main campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and its network of campuses, field centers, and widespread job and foreign study linkages. (HS)

Deep Springs College, an experimental junior college founded in 1917, is now facing a financial crisis that may cause it to close its doors. (HS)

Suggests that participation in small scale change, rather than observation of it, is the only adequate model upon which the practitioner can base his response to larger demands. (Author)