The 10 issues of this organizational bulletin for the 1995-96 school year present reports, reviews, and essays on issues concerning the advancement of higher education as well as organizational news items. Major articles include: "Bowling Alone"--An Interview with Robert Putnam; "Crossing Boundaries: Pathways to Productive Learning and Community Renewal" (Russell Edgerton); "'Read My Lips': The Academic Administrator's Role in the Campus Focus on Teaching" (Joan Deguire North); "Front-End Alignment/An Introduction to the Standards Movement" (Ruth Mitchell); "How Standards-Based K-12 Reforms Affect Higher Education" (Francis Griffith); "Student Collaboration: Not Always What the Instructor Wants" (Donald McCabe and Sally Cole); "Reassessing (and Defining) Assessment" (Thomas Angelo); "Just Say No' to Calendar Change" (Thomas Trzyna); "Distance Education: The Options Follow Mission" (Susan Rogers); "Resources for Learning about Distance Education"; "Giving Distance Learning a Try" (Norman Coombs and Edward White); "Crossing Boundaries" (information about the 1996 national conference); "Persistent Problems in Evaluating College Teaching" (W. J. McKeachie and Matthew Kaplan); "Closer to the Disciplines: A Model for Improving Teaching within Departments" (Deborah DeZure); "The Search for Next-Century Learning/An Interview with John Abbott" (Ted Marchese); "The Name Game: Forward to the Past/The Right Job Title Can Make a Big Difference" (Martin Schoppmeyer and Christopher Lucas); "The Partnership Terrain/Results of a Study of School-College Partnerships" (Louis Albert and Franklin Wilbur); "Transforming Assessment: High Standards for Higher Learning" (Thomas Angelo); "What Research Says about Improving Undergraduate Education/Twelve Attributes of a High-Quality Experience"; "The Baldridge in Education: Why It Is Needed and What the First Pilot Year Produced" (Daniel Seymour); "Assessment and CQI: Could Collaboration Be on the Horizon" (Monika Springer Schnell); and "Out of Africa: A Model for Others" (Linda Chrisholm and Louis Albert); "'Motor Voter': How the New Law Can Help Colleges Promote Civic Engagement" (an interview with David Warren); "An Agenda for Involving Faculty in Service" (Deborah Hirsch); "It Was Time To Act, and Southern University Did: New Orleans Partnership Prepares Young Professionals To Meet Urban Needs" (Deborah Smith);"Making Learning Communities Work/Seven Lessons from Temple's Effort to Transform the First-Year Experience" (Jodi Levine and Daniel Tompkins); and "Crossing Boundaries: Pathways to Productive Learning and Community Renewal" (excerpts from the 1996 national conference). (DB)