Traces the current status of the community college academic curriculum through data from several national studies conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges over the past 10 years. Sees the Humanities, Sciences, Fine Arts, Mathematics, and English Composition as the academic disciplinary core of the collegiate curriculum. (CBC)

A frequently used measure of comparative institutional achievement has been Ph.D. productivity. The National Research Council has collected data on the numbers of baccalaureate graduates from colleges and universities who have gone on to earn Ph.D.s. This report updates and substantially broadens the analysis of previous studies. (MLW)

Provides 32 essays on the importance of aesthetic education. Topics range from the role of private institutions in art education, to the nature of art criticism and to rationales for art education in the public schools. (JDH)

Quantification has traditionally been considered inconsistent with humanism, and humanists suffer from largely unarticulated fears about computer use in their discipines that prevent them from gaining the advantages of computers in humanities instruction. (MSE)

Describes a computing course which emphasizes practical applications of computers in the various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences; provides details of the course and its objectives; and presents recommendations based on experiences in offering the course for several years for professors wishing to institute such a course. (MBR)

It is argued that despite the decline of the humanities in higher education in the 20 years since the National Endowment for the Humanities came into existence, the agency has probably done much to promote the humanities and prevent further decline. (MSE)

Describes an exercise in which junior year nursing students, who had just completed a course involving the introduction of nursing diagnosis, go to an art museum and look at art from the point of view of nursing diagnosis. The author examines student responses and whether certain goals were accomplished. (CT)

This ERIC Digest outlines what world history is and why and how world history should be implemented into social studies curricula. The Digest offers suggestions on how to improve the study of world history in schools. Topics discussed in the Digest include: "What Is World History?"; "Why World History in the School…

This grant's goals for high school teachers were threefold: (1) in the core courses and elective classes to collaborate and create lessons with a central theme; (2) become proficient with computer technology and utilize Internet resources as integral components of their lessons; and (3) enrich, enliven, and update the content of their classes…

The first section of this two-part document, The Hermeneutic Struggle: A Teaching Method, explores the author's pedagogical explanation of a hermeneutic approach to teaching philosophy. According to the article, the teacher should come to the classroom and be able to approach the subject matter from the perspective of the beginner, yet, at the…

University teachers have a social responsibility to help other citizens, both inside and outside the classroom, formulate reasoned principles for themselves; for a faculty member to be an advocate for particular substantive positions is inconsistent with this responsibility. A checklist for precision in essay writing is appended. (MSE)

Optional interdisciplinary courses taught by foreign language teachers to college sophomores are described. The courses are English Word Power, Classical Mythology, Afro-French Literature in Translation, and two courses in law in literature. The emphasis was on integrating a humanities concept with a foreign language-foreign culture orientation.…

A humanities professor reflects on six years of teaching experience at a Michigan maximum security prison through the College Opportunity Prison Extensions (COPE) program. Describes inmate responses to five novels studied in a prison literature course and examines the parallels between the literary plots and the inmates' lives. (JP)

College faculty, particularly in the humanities, are finding institutions do not always treat substantial work with electronic media as a form of scholarship or service. While more humanities departments are embracing technology, faculty are finding involvement in innovative projects risky to their careers. Professional associations are criticized…