Investments in the select few who already are or will become academic leaders are essential but insufficient. Investments also need to be made in collective leadership because leadership is an activity or function, not merely a person. Both good leaders and collective leadership are needed in the never-ending journey toward selective excellence. A…

The core curriculum accompanied the development of the academic discipline with multiple names such as Kinesiology, Exercise and Sport Science, and Health and Human Performance. It provides commonalties for undergraduate majors. It is timely to renew this curriculum. Renewal involves strategic reappraisals. It may stimulate change or reaffirm the…

One of the purposes of professional education is to educate professionals to honor their social responsibility. This paper presents three stories that identify important preconditions in education for social responsibility. The preconditions include socially responsive faculty and field integrity. Each story includes morals (i.e., lessons about…

Discusses emerging trends within helping professions that cause some academic units within higher education to decline or disappear while others thrive. Investigates patterns in causes and correlates of resource declines, program terminations, and organizational realignments. The paper notes universities' social responsibility to support helping…

Five articles on service-based scholarship present broad issues confronting higher education, with a focus on physical education, and explore problems associated with current models. The articles note the need to move toward a more service-based model with significant connections to the community and society and present various barriers to the…

The human capital model is described as it relates to health promotion and exercise behavior change strategies, and possible limitations are discussed. An alternative called the human development-potential perspective is presented. The alternative model broadly frames health in socioecological terms with economic, moral, and sociocultural…

The relationship between general, liberal and professional education is discussed within the context of reforming undergraduate education. Physical education professors and administrators are encouraged to actively participate in education reform and to consider their role in general education programs. (JL)

Professionals often neglect problem-setting because of a preoccupation with problem-solving. Missions, goals, and objectives are products of problem-setting that are important to the process of professionalization. Professionals should become more reflective and reflexive in their approach to problem-setting. (Author/DF)

Many academic fields claim jurisdiction over health research and practice. The paper examines dominant conceptions of health as a personal quality or state of being, noting the market-oriented, competitive relationship among fields. It presents a socioecological conception of health which emphasizes individuals but also includes societal and…

Sargent and other human service professionals have pursued visions of a rational, regulated life, a vision entertained by many professions. The paper critiques the human capital model (which unites these professions and delivery systems), presents a human development perspective, identifies its assumptions, and sketches its life-enabling…

There is growing consensus about schools' roles as the national agenda emphasizes economic and social improvement via school reform, prioritizing relationships among schools, families, agencies, and health organizations. As schools are being reinvented, educators are examining the impact on physical education, particularly the relationship between…

Integration is suggested to handle faculty specialization and fragmentation in higher education. First, however, the roots and processes of specialization and fragmentation must be analyzed beginning with relationships among professionalization, problem setting, and paradigmatic communities. An analytical frame of reference emphasizes…