The ability to think in a foreign language is reflected more accurately in the ability to speak and write the language. Colleges and universities need to supplement the Test of English as a Foreign Language with tests of English conversation, specialized vocabulary, and written composition. (MLW)

An exercise designed to provide students with an opportunity to take responsibility for learning an assigned reading and to share ideas with their colleagues is described. The exercise also provides a safe atmosphere in which to practice communication skills, critical thinking, and decision making. (MLW)

Eastern Michigan University's opportunity program for underprepared students, called the Promote Academic Survival and Success (PASS) program, is described. The improvement of the students' reading and writing skills was emphasized. This was seen as the most direct way for the students' to achieve academic competence and self-integration. (MLW)

Little effort has been made to combine the "writing-to-oneself" process with an exercise in creative thinking as an effective way to teach any subject or to learn a given subject. A program to combine writing and a creativity exercise to foster learning for students studying basic economics is described. (MLW)

University of California writing instructors must teach poorly prepared freshmen how to survive English classes and how to adapt the skills they learn to the rest of their university writing assignments. Reading, thinking, organizing, and stylistic problems are discussed. (MLW)

To help students write more effectively, a technique for writing from thesis statements is described that requires students to create a picture of a wheel. The hub is a word that is the essence of the topic; the spokes are concrete examples; and the tire is the thesis statement. (MLW)

The argument that liberal education (study of the philosophical and literary texts that compose the Great Tradition of the West) promotes political conservatism, a propensity to oppose the modern and particularly American progress toward achieving the ideals of democracy and equality, is discussed. (MLW)

Five different metaphors of evaluation are discussed: judging, criticizing, assessing, appraising, rating; the faculty can be evaluated for appointment, tenure, promotion, salary, termination, improvement. Faculty can be evaluated for research, teaching, and service, and they can be evaluated by other faculty, administrators, students, and outside…

A brief overview of how the School of Nursing at Ball State University successfully developed a merit and market system for allocation of salary increases is presented. A salary document developed includes: satisfactory standards, a market plan, a merit plan, and a procedure of implementation. (MLW)

Constructive communication can alter and positively affect student attitudes so that learning objectives for testing can be reclaimed and grades and their averages put in a more proper perspective. Communication with students about exams is necessary at the beginning of the course and before, during, and after tests. (MLW)

If colleges and universities want to share a leadership role in preparing students for successful careers in high technology, they must develop high quality programs that provide skills for careers in the corporate community and public sector, while providing a solid grounding in the liberal arts. Corporate leaders were interviewed. (MLW)

A "thinking-across-the-campus" for composition, intended to help students see and write afresh about the world as well as to better perceive basic compositional principles, is described. The analogizing/synergizing principle applicable to composition can work for the benefit of many courses. (MLW)

A program is described that set out to improve/enlarge the reading background of entering students by asking them to read 5-10 specific books before coming to college, featuring one book each year as the "common text," and providing a number of special seminars and activities based on that text. (MLW)

Four models for college and university teaching based on a review of adult learning literature and a recognition of the realities of teaching in a higher education institution, including typical academic regulations with some form of credit and grading procedure, are described. (MLW)

The extent and nature of sexual harassment of students by college faculty are examined, and practical suggestions for institutions to eradicate academic sexual harassment are made, including a published code of conduct and educational programs. (MSE)