Describes the 14 winners of the 1989 EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL (National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning) Higher Education Software Awards. Highlights include curriculum innovation, collaborative programs on computer networks, interactive video, hypermedia, an increase in humanities participation, and general trends in…

CASE's 1989 National Professor of the Year was J. Dennis Huston, a professor of English at Rice University, who directs a new Humanities Foundation Course for science and engineering students. The one-year core course grounds science and engineering freshmen in history, literature, and culture. (MLW)

Reports on five National Endowment for the Humanities seminars held in Texas to exchange ideas concerning a law mandating a core curriculum in the state's college and university system. Questions centered on the ramifications for the curriculum, selection of courses for revision, and the role of the humanities in such a curriculum. (KO)

Aspects of English-as-a-Second-Language are discussed from the standpoint of a teacher-educator with a particular interest in philosophy, the arts, and humanities and what they signify for the schools. The idea of giving voice to all viewpoints and sociocultural circumstances is considered for content learning and heterogeneous grouping. (Contains…

Discusses humanities scholarship from the research library's perspective. Topics include reference versus citation; bibliographic authority and authority control; library collection development which reflects a variety of research methodologies; retention policies; and the derivative nature of reference and citation.(LRW)

In the humanities, scholars accord libraries high prestige and use them extensively. Despite the availability of electronic mail and digital libraries, humanists persist in more traditional forms of scholarly communication. Because it will be many years before print records can be given digital form, this population will likely continue library…

Discusses "Minds and Machines," a one-semester undergraduate course for nontechnical majors. Explains that the course examines how philosophical problems of knowledge, cognition, language, and human nature can be investigated with computer-related concepts and techniques. Describes experiments conducted during the course, including mind…

A San Diego State University (California) graduate course in the School of Public Administration integrates literature study with professional education. Its objectives are to give students vicarious experience with the frustration and alienation felt by potential clients and the dilemmas faced by conscientious administrators and to rekindle…

Humanists use a wide variety of textual, graphic, and aural materials in their research, each of which presents indexing challenges. Research into the nature of these materials and humanists' information-seeking behaviors indicate that indexing models from the sciences are not adequate. New controlled vocabulary and indexing frameworks are needed.…

Examines the number and breadth of liberal arts courses offered in community colleges in various disciplines (i.e., English, fine and performing arts, humanities, mathematics, science, and social sciences) and enrollment in these areas. Shows how with rare exception course offerings and enrollments have remained consistent over the period 1975-91.…

A snapshot of the changing Polish educational system focuses on elimination of uniform curriculum requirements, return of religious instruction, emergence of private and religious schools, removal of overtly ideological materials from history and literature curricula, and fears of a power struggle between the present postcommunists and new…

Argues that community college's liberal arts curricula should be as responsive to community needs as vocational curricula. Uses the evolution of developmental education curricula as a model. Discusses reasons for and obstacles to diversifying the tradition-bound liberal arts, recommending links between developmental and liberal arts curricula to…

This paper contends that the increasing interest in Black (African-American) studies can elevate the pursuit of unbiased views of the universe. As Black studies begin to influence existing paradigms of social sciences and the humanities, a more accurate picture emerges of how branches of knowledge were developed. (SLD)

Advocates a framework for African-American development and awareness in which African-American studies will play a decisive role in debate surrounding multiculturalism. Multiculturalism and African-American studies must be articulated within a general theory of educational democracy. African-American studies must also become a projection of what…

Describes online databases available through the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) that focus on research in the humanities. A survey of five databases (AVERY, ESTC, RIPD, SCIPIO, and AMC) is presented that includes contents, search capabilities, and record formats; and future plans are discussed. (12 references) (LRW)