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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Cadwallader, Mervyn L. – Liberal Education, 1984
Radical reform of higher education is the place to begin an overall educational reform, but higher education reform will have to be internal to be effective, and the profession will have to carefully examine and redefine its goals and content first. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Role, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs
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Cadwallader, Mervyn L. – Liberal Education, 1983
It is argued that tenure is not, as traditionally claimed, essential for academic freedom, and that in light of social change and recent litigation, the modern democracy needs to put into practice a theory of academic freedom distinct from tenure. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Court Litigation, Democratic Values
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Cadwallader, Mervyn L. – Liberal Education, 1982
Radical college curricular experimentation in citizenship for education could make campuses more exciting places to teach and study. The curriculum can be designed around perennially important questions about community, loyalty, obedience, legitimacy, power, and justice. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Role
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Cadwallader, Mervyn L. – Liberal Education, 1982
Those believing that liberal arts, taught as the civic arts, should be a significant part of the college curriculum must insist on a radical change to a core liberal arts curriculum of one or two years within the university, to precede vocational training and specialization. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development