Considers the need to reestablish the position of philosophy in the humanities. Questions the value of detachment and specialization as traits of the professional philosopher. Urges philosophers to take themselves less seriously and approach their discipline with humor. (DMM)

Describes Monroe Community College's interdisciplinary liberal arts program, the Human Ecology Project, which explores the problems of energy and resource depletion and social and ecological imbalances; increases students' self-reliance in food, energy, shelter, and health care; and examines holistically the interrelationships of technology,…

Compares the passive experience of going to Disneyworld, which stultifies the imagination, sanitizes reality, and packages fantasy, with the more stimulating experience of reading the sections in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" that describes Altamont (i.e., Asheville, North Carolina) and serve to link imagination and life. (CAM)

The following analysis traced some of the history of general education in the two-year college, with an eye toward explaining why general education has reached its present low status in the hierarchy of community college concerns. (Author/RK)