CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
- A for Creativity, D- for Communication
by Carol Schneider
FEATURED TOPIC: Expanding the Horizon of Liberal Education
- THE FUTURE OF LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE HEGEMONY OF MARKET VALUES: PRIVILEGE, PRACTICALITY, AND CITIZENSHIP
By Grant Cornwell and Eve Stoddard
Liberal arts education has both economic and educational meaning, meanings often not in harmony with one another. Can it retain its place as foundational to all human relations, including markets?
- LEARNING FOR HEADS, HANDS, AND HEARTS: RANDOM RANTS AND REFLECTIONS ON LIBERAL EDUCATION
By Peter A. Facione
Is there a crisis in liberal education? If there is, why do so many things ring of achievement? There are problems, and solutions point to what finally liberal education means.
- PREPARING STUDENTS FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
By Michele Tolela Myers
The goals a society sets for the next generation are those of a parent, writ large.
- BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE
By Raymond Lou and Karen L. Mendonca
In educating large numbers of first-generation college students, public state universities set a standard of liberal arts education as a goal. Achieving that goal requires a model of liberal with professional education. The California system provides a model for developing such a holistic education.
- COMMENCEMENT: A CALLING TO THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Alfred H. Bloom
- DESIGNING 21ST CENTURY LIBERAL EDUCATION
By Andrea Leskes
The National Panel of Greater Expectations is engaged in articulating the aims and purposes of undergraduate education for students of the twenty-first century. In an interview, the Director of the project explains the context for this initiative.
PERSPECTIVES
- HUMANITIES AND HUMAN CAPABILITIES
By Martha Nussbaum
The "capabilities approach" asserts the needs of human beings for a range of human activities as the basis of what development might deliver to people.
- TECHNOLOGY AS A MIRROR
By Judith Ramaley
Lessons learned--from start-up through implementation--at the University of Vermont as it promoted the use of technology for enhancing learning, serving on-campus students, and extending professional education beyond the campus.
MY VIEW
- SPEECH OR WRITING: E-MAIL AS A NEW MEDIUM
By Kathleen Boone
Electronic communication, a hybrid of both speech and writing, leads to questions--some based on mixed experiences--about the similarities and differences among these forms.
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