Higher education should serve the long-term intellectual needs of the student. The only way to measure real learning is by what it does to the individual student's intellectual growth. A three-step approach to internalize, integrate, and subjectify knowledge is discussed. (MLW)

Subject matter in general education is simply the vehicle for instruction. Beyond the disciplines themselves, general education should provide seven forms of competency: vocabulary, learning skills, methods of inquiry, perspective, understanding of limitations, ability to find implications, and sensitivity. (MSE)

Techniques for initiating good discussion in class include: examining goals and values, noting concrete images in text, generating questions among students, finding illustrative quotations, small group discussion, generating truth statements, forced debates, role playing, non-structured scene-setting, and eliciting opinoins of the text. (MSE)

The slow evolution toward "unbundling" education, or making it readily available without the traditional class and campus structures, has begun. The ultimate stage is granting of degree credit based on examinations only, with no requirements to buy any instruction. Intermediate steps in the process take a variety of innovative forms. (MSE)

The faculty peer review system described assumes cooperation between employees and employers toward individual and departmental goals, and provides measures of change in objectives or behavior. Experiences at San Jose State are reported and a President's scholars review form is included. (MSE)

Thirty-six high-achieving students at San Jose State College were surveyed on the quality of the university's instruction, with the intent of compiling a monograph of the results to stimulate campus-wide student-faculty discussion of ways to improve teaching. The questionnaire is included. (MSE)

In the Adopt-A-School Program, college art faculty establish relationships with local elementary and secondary schools, act as artists-in-residence, and use the schools as bases of operation for teaching methods courses for majors and nonmajors and for working with student teachers. (MSE)

North Texas State University's recently established faculty development program includes efforts at the university, college, and department levels, such as discussions with consultants, sharing of papers and presentations previously given by faculty members at a one-day conference, and weekday retreats to examine goals and curriculum. (MSE)

The role of college faculty as mentors to students in individualizing instructional programs is discussed, and its problems and future examined. With the present uncertain future of faculty careers and the trend toward new instructional delivery methods, the future of mentoring is also seen as uncertain. (MSE)

Single-issue politics is seen as a threat to both political parties and universities. Single-issue politics rests on the following bases: moral principle, constitutional rights, and protection of a way of life. Single-issue groups will attack a special weakness of universities--their role as developers of moral virtue. (MLW)

The history of Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) programs is outlined. The areas in which teaching shortages continue to exist are identified and MAT programs are urged to work to alleviate these shortages. Teacher shortages for prison inmates, youngsters with reading and language handicaps, and ghetto children are described. (MLW)

A significant number of educational innovations are aborted because of political problems. Trying to change people's behavior or to get extra funds for educational change creates political problems. Some steps by which educational innovators can reduce the political problems inherent in their work are provided. (MLW)

The key to teaching history successfully is giving students the ability to apply the process of historical analysis to any material they encounter. A special interest history course at Boston College focused on assassinations in Europe and America in the twentieth century. (MLW)

The use of "The Adams Chronicles" series as a foundation for studying history is discussed. The programs were seen as providing an opportunity to create for the students an experience in historical study that would overcome barriers to understanding and enjoyment. (MLW)

Five-tiered conceptual model of a course on the history of the Holocaust is presented. The Holocaust is outlined in historical perspective as an example of inhumanity to humans, as a unique event in world history, as social science process, and as a moral and ethical problem. (MLW)