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Reflections On General Education, Ollin J. Drennan

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Life is a series of events into which an individual enters, modifying each event by his memory and his expectations. Each of us finds ourselves involved in all the things that happen to us almost as though we were observers standing aside and watching as well as participating. Through our culture we learn to separate our thinking about our lives from the living of them. Often our living seems to flow inescapably and inevitably along and all we can do is learn to understand the more important parts of it. That we might affect the way that flow of events …

Austin College's New Design To Instruction, Frank Edwards

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 2

In terms of the nature of the institution, we're an undergraduate liberal arts college. We offer a pretty full spectrum of concentrations. We're divided organizationally into three operating areas, the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, and offer some 20 to 25 areas of concentration, pretty much the conventional ones. But we also--and especially in our new program-have many ways in which students …

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

University Magazine Vol. 31 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• Retired Professors
• David Quint Was Not A Name
• The Healing Generation
• WMU Sports
• Alumni News
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Developing General Studies: Recollections Of A General Studies Chairman, Benjamin P. Mehrling

Perspectives (1969-1979)

1) General Studies as Introductory Studies

2) General Studies Courses as Common Studies

3) General Studies as Survey Studies

4) General Studies as Nondepartmental Studies

5) General Studies as Interdisciplinary Studies

Developing Relationships Between Two-Year And Four-Year Colleges, Richard E. Wilson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Featured Address of this issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

This is a time of crisis, a crisis of immediate and direct concern to us- to all people who are interested in general education, in liberal learning, in educating people for a free society, and in the development of liberated, liberal, humane persons.

Shifting Ideals In Higher Education, Frederick F. Ritsch

Perspectives (1969-1979)

If a controlled equalitarian democracy is a real or even a present danger in higher education, then those in the academic professions should move now to at least clarify the meaning of a higher education. This could mean a much greater vigilance with regard to what is included under the heading of a university degree; it should certainly mean reconsideration of some areas which now receive higher education validation. It would mean our classrooms be less concerned with reinforcing the immediate than with the identification and elaboration of new and more productive modes of living. It would demand that higher …

Tarrant County Junior College's Program Of General Education, Charles N. Johnson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 3

I hate to start out on a negative note, but I must say that it is entirely possible (and I'll include our programs at Tarrant County Junior College) that community colleges have probably never tried general education. General education, of course, has many interpretations and definitions, but the one I'm speaking of we haven't yet tried.

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 1 And Supplement No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Volume 5 No. 1 Spring 1973

Supplement No. 1 Summer 1973

Don't Just Talk About It, Daniel R. Kroll

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Like the weather, everyone seems to be talking about General Education but no one seems to be doing anything about it. For that matter many administrators wonder just what General Education really is. When an educator can remark that "General Education is anything outside a student's major," it is time for a redefinition of the constituent which distinguishes a baccalaureate degree from a trade school diploma.

Program Of Agls Annual Meeting

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Thursday, October 18th

Friday, October 19th

Saturday, October 20th

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The University Of Utah's Program Of General Education, Oakley J. Gordon

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 1

In order to present an idea of the course which the University of Utah has followed in regard to general education, Professor Gordon first read a portion of a paper which he had presented at a meeting of the American Association for Higher Education in 1970. See what he said in 1970, and then see what kind of prophet he was in …

The Presence And Promise Of The New Consciousness, Benjamin Mehrling

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The counter culture controversy-that is, the claims and denials over the arrival of a new kind of person, a new breed, a new sensibility- widely discussed in the late sixties, has reached a new level of intensity. The critics are now taking the initiative, putting forward arguments intended to show either that the youth movement has been faddish, ladened with contradictions, and a luxury of the "elitists," or that it never did exist except in the imaginations and wishes of its identifiers and "discoverers."

I believe the critics have largely failed to take into account just what the discoverers of …

Jonathan Harvey Coxgull: An Experiment In College Teaching, Francis L. Gross Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

As a postscript I might add that my description of our classroom was not a chance prescript to this essay. It was intended as a symbol. It is a symbol of impersonality and sameness. My students study and live and eat in a decor similar to that room. There are roughly 20,000 of them at my school. They are strangers both to me and to each other on the first day of class each semester. If I am to get them to share experiences, and hence to aid each other in the learning process, I must somehow be an agent …

Creating A Climate For Learning (A Human Relations Approach), Robert W. Hayes, William E. Davis

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Studies seem to indicate that the traditional aptitudinal criteria for predicting academic success are severely limited in their ability to predict those who will succeed and those who will not succeed at the college level.

Underpinnings For A "University Education", Charles O. Houston

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Environmental Essays on the Planet as a Home, by Paul Shepard and Daniel McKinely (editors), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971, 307 pp., Illus.

The Social Question In Liberal Education, Dale Porter

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In her book On Revolution (1965) Hannah Arendt makes a distinction between liberation and freedom which I want to relate to the function of liberal education in contemporary American society. The dilemma implied by that relation was developed by my students in a recent class discussion; it is on their behalf that I present it here.

Perspectives Vol. 4 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives consists of papers and discussions from the Annual meeting of AGLS of Rochester Institute of Technology, Oct. 26-28, 1972.

Western Official News, November 16, 1972, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustee Action Delineates Western's Role in Michigan's System of Higher Education, Faculty Position Reductions Listed for Colleges, Board Sets '73-'74 Budget Request at $46,308,990; Up by $5,092,000, Smoking Regulations

Western Official News, October 31, 1972, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Approve Affirmative Action Policy In the Field of Employee Relations at Western, Faculty; Staff Vehicle Registration, Student Recruiting- Step-Up Designed To Encourage Beginners and Transfers To Consider Western Michigan University, Affirmative Action Coordinating Committee

Western Official News, October 12, 1972, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty Reduction Committee Sets Criteria and Guidelines, Applications for sabbatical leaves, The University curriculum committee, Outside speakers invited by student organizations, Course offerings; office hours; meeting classes, Traffic, parking and pedestrian ordinance, Free inquiry in the classroom

Faculty Publications 1970-71, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1970-71 is the ninth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

A Study Of The Ombudsman In Higher Education With Emphasis On Western Michigan University, Charles F. Hewitt

Dissertations

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The Relationships Between Two Methods Of Teaching College Biology In Achievement And Attitude, Judson M. Vander Wal

Dissertations

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A Study Of Non-Transferring Community College Graduates From Selected Michigan Community Colleges, Paul Richard Heath

Dissertations

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University Magazine Vol. 31 No. 1, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Fine Arts
• Detroit Symphony Residency
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Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Undergraduate Catalog 1972-1973, Western Michigan University

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• University Calendar
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Faculty Recognition Dinner 1972, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner

May 13, 1972

Honored Retirees

• Hugh G. Archer
• Harriette V. Bartoo
• Jacob P. Dewitt
• George O. Egland
• Leonard C. Kercher
• Myrtle B. Powers
• Maurice F. Seay
• M. Elizabeth Smutz
• Carl B. Snow
• Edwin B. Steen
• Adrian Trimpe

Yearbook 1972, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

1972 Western Michigan University Yearbook.

University Magazine Vol. 30 No. 4, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• From Speech to Communication
• Up With Technology
• WIDR / WMUK
• Sports
• Alumni News
• Alumni Association, New Life Members
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• In Memoriam