Asserts that the distinctive moral traditions of faith-based colleges and universities can help them resist corporate demands on academia, but only if their faculties are allowed to question institutional policies. Describes five main sources of governance problems in religiously affiliated schools. (EV)

Asserts that to prevent incursions on academic freedom, faculty members must make a strong commitment of time and expertise to institutional governance, and they must promote regulations and behavior that support academic freedom. Describes how the administration, faculty, and board of Calvin College, affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church,…

The courts in the old British Commonwealth common law countries have been dealing with questions relating to visitorial jurisdiction in public universities. The visitor is a judge of facts who interprets and applies the laws of the university. A decision of the visitor on matters within visitorial jurisdiction is final and not appealable to the…

Focuses on the current trend to critique the governing assumptions of research writing at the same time that a critical research practice is being developed. The article argues that the genres of academic writing are more integral to intellectual practices than traditionally assumed. (31 references) (Author/CK)

Provides an overview of the First Amendment status of college print media, and then discusses the degree to which student-controlled electronic media outlets warrant comparable expressive rights. (SR)

Considers the importance of developing a well constructed publications policy and notes that a carefully designed policy will provide some mechanism for addressing questions regarding the inevitable conflicts that will arise when students express a desire to publish certain controversial material. (SC)

Five educators at a symposium suggested that giving academics training and support in their teaching roles might prioritize skills at the expense of disciplinary knowledge and threaten academic freedom. This article presents the contrary view that teaching can be improved by such courses and suggests that this point of view should be substantiated…

Explores why some professors find the oaths required by church-related institutions intellectually confining. (EV)

Three trustees and three journalists join in a roundtable discussion of how colleges and universities can improve relations with the news media. (EV)

Studies how experienced teachers of literature created a sense of continuity and coherence in a curriculum over relatively long periods of time. Finds that although the classrooms created a stable set of domain conventions, similarity in broad topics and goals within the curriculum masked great diversity at the level of classroom practice. (NH)

It has been 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in the "Tinker" case, upheld three students' right to wear black armbands protesting the Vietnam War to school. Recent cases involving sagging pants and an African headwrap (dress code violations) did not meet allowable "free-speech" requirements. (MLH)

Discusses information overload and society's and libraries' responses to technology. Considers eight values that libraries should focus on and how they relate to technology in libraries: democracy, stewardship, service, intellectual freedom, privacy, rationalism, equity of access, and building harmony and balance. (LRW)

Discusses Eighth Circuit Court's upholding of an Oklahoma nontenured second-grade teacher's claim of religious discrimination and violation of First Amendment right of expression when school board declined to renew her contract on recommendation of a principal concerned with parent objections to New Age thinking in a letter sent home attached to a…

Discusses how public colleges are increasingly clashing with the news media over compliance with state sunshine laws, particularly regarding searches for new presidents. Experts attribute the trend to increased competitiveness among institutions and a shift in public attitudes away from suspicion of government and toward privacy concerns. (EV)

Fr. Luigi Giussani was once asked the following question: "Do you consider yourself an educator?" He replied, "I would certainly like to be one, because a human relationship worthy of its name must include the communication of that truth which has become life experience." The purpose of this article is to examine the writings of Italian…