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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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The Degradation of Undergraduate Education.
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Eble, Kenneth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
Increased emphasis on research and grantsmanship leaves college faculty with little time or inclination for undergraduate teaching. Concern for education has given way to concern for power. Higher education is now only distantly connected with shaping a citizenry. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Role, Educational Change
The Art of Deliberalizing: A Handbook for the True Professional.
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Booth, Wayne C. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
This tongue-in-cheek committee report from a fictional liberal arts college illustrates how college ranking scales, projects for image enhancement, and similar activities that preoccupy today's college administrators detract from the main business of undergraduate teaching and liberal education. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Role
The Transforming of the American Mind.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
A discussion of the increasing conservatism on college campuses looks at education's heritage of cultural geneticism and at the role of the humanities in higher education. It is concluded that cultural diversity must be included, not superficially but in every aspect of the college curriculum. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, College Role, Cultural Pluralism