Interest in creating conditions that enhance student learning and support students in achieving their educational goals is at an all-time high. The pool of prospective undergraduates is larger and more diverse than ever, and four-fifths of high school graduates will require some form of postsecondary education to acquire the knowledge and…

Despite the importance accorded to helping students make conceptual connections and arrive at a more sophisticated understanding of how ideas, concepts, theories, and explanations interact with and inform one another, educators have few maps to help them describe the process by which students learn to make these connections. Through skill theory,…

Four issues of a quarterly newsletter address programs, issues, and concerns of women students, faculty and administrators in higher education. Each issue contains many brief reports on events, news, litigation, legislation, and campus programs on the following topics: sexual harassment, working in academe, news from around the campus, sexual…