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Philosophy And The Liberal Arts, Michael J. Buckley S.J.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The focus of these remarks is a simple, general question: How should philosophy be taught to college students? Notice that the possibility is simply taken for granted. We do not ask if we can teach but how we can teach. Is this to treat philosophy like any other field within the humanities or sciences? We give instruction in mathematics, physics, history, English literature; can we not also teach philosophy? An etymological rephrasing would suggest this assumption is open to serious reservations. How can college students be taught "to love wisdom?" Can so radical a personality-commitment be taught, be the product …

The Small Liberal Arts College: No Apologies Needed, Leonard Tompos

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The question of the small college's future likely will be determined by the individual colleges themselves. If they make themselves irrelevant to their students, as well as to society at large, the small college may at best then hope for a hand-to-mouth marginal existence. But such a situation would, indeed be ironic. The irony would lie in the fact that the small, so-called liberal arts college seemingly can most effectively offer not only the type or quality of education most needed today in our society, but also can provide the optimum educational settings and conditions.

Hegel And The Rebellion And Counter-Rebellion Of Youth, Rudolf J. Siebert

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Can the philosopher and educator Hegel help American youth overcome romantic subjectivity and liberate itself toward a rational and free existence? Can he help them in the dramatic social development from civil society to the real non-repressive supra-national or even continental state? To lead Hegel and American youth into a new and honest encounter would be very worthwhile and necessary, but difficult. This new encounter would presuppose the success of an even more difficult task. This would be to let American youth take root in that healthy confidence, which Hegel characterized as threefold: 1) confidence is science, 2) faith in …

Perspectives Vol. 3 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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General Symbols And General Studies, Larry Tyler

Perspectives (1969-1979)

An inherent difficulty in trans-disciplinary general education programs is the lack of a theoretical framework from which to display the points of unity and convergence between those uniquely human endeavors that, in slavish compliance to custom, are yet discussed as distinct and separate concerns such as science, art, mysticism, philosophy, and so on. This lack of a general theory makes all attempts at integration seem strained and artificial. However, clues, hints, and some significant beginnings toward such a framework do exist in the work of several writers. A synthesis of those sources seems, perhaps, in order.

Getting With Spaceship Earth, Noel Mcinnis

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The environment into which we are born remains invisible to us unless one of two things happens: 1) we leave it, or 2) it changes drastically. Quite recently, both of these things have happened to man-on-earth. Man left the earth long enough to look it over, and brought back pictures which make it difficult for us to overlook the planet as formerly. And those of us who stayed on earth discovered our planet by virtue of the fact that its feedback is doing things to us which were entirely unintended in our doings to it. The coincidence of these events …

Perspectives Vol. 3 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Ex Oriente Lux: Eastern Teachings Offer A Renaissance In Higher Education, Henry Winthrop

Perspectives (1969-1979)

With Yoga and Karate the educational staple of all citizens, the achievement of the good life is assured. When that time comes the words of one of our patriotic songs will carry their most impressive meaning. "Oh, beautiful for spacious skies" will then refer to the first national community that succeeded in making full est use of man's hidden powers via the method of universal spiritual education.

Team Teaching At The College Level By Horatio M. Lafauci & Peyton E. Richter, David Hargreave

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Team Teaching at the College Level. Horatio M. Lafauci & Peyton E. Richter. New York: Pergamon Press, 1970. x + 157 pp.

Thoughts About A General Studies Program, Ollin J. Drennan

Perspectives (1969-1979)

One of the often repeated goals of a program of general or liberal education is that of promoting an awareness of the meaning of being human. The following thoughts were stimulated by the question "What does it mean to be human?" They represent an exploratory, not a definitive, statement. If they excite a response, they will have served the purpose for which they were placed on paper.

Respite For Sciolism, David S. Deshon

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Higher Education: Demand and Response, Edited by W. R . Niblett; San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1970. 267 pages.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, January 1971, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Name Three Instructional Facility Components
• Winter Enrollment At 20,897
• 1,389 Degrees Conferred in Dec. Commencement
• Higher Education in U.S. Seriously Threatened By Public Disenchantment
• WMU Yearly Impact On Kalamazoo Area Is $75.2-million
• Present Three Notable School of Social Work Colloquia
• WIDR Receives Award for Christmas Seal Fund Drive
• WMU Is Foremost US Center on Korean, Philippine Studies

The Roads And The Purposes, Edward H. Levi

Perspectives (1969-1979)

We are all concerned about the ability of education to respond to diverse tasks which have been placed upon it. These tasks require many more kinds of institutions, much more flexibility in the kinds of programs and means of instruction. Some means has to be found, and I do not believe the road of subsidy, by itself, will accomplish it, to encourage the appearance and participation of these institutions, and the trying out of programs and methods of instruction.

A more open system has risks, but it could reassemble to greater advantage the strength which is there. Obviously, such an …

What Is Relevant In General And Liberal Education, Benjamin E. Mays

Perspectives (1969-1979)

We hear a great deal today about relevant education. We often hear our students say that this course or this curriculum is not relevant to our needs. They are all too often right. Our courses of study should meet the current needs of our students and prepare them as much as possible to do the work of the world that needs to be done.

Scholarship And Ideology, Bhikhu Parekh

Perspectives (1969-1979)

One of the most distinctive characteristics of the modern university is the tremendous emphasis placed on research, on "expanding the frontiers of knowledge." The faculty has argued, and the university authorities have in many cases accepted, that research is the only worth-while academic activity and that the university largely exists simply to promote it. In its name the faculty has sometimes even ignored, with official connivance, many of its academic obligations. Although, from the standpoint of the university, teaching is more important, research has become a new industry, a new god whose directives, it is believed, only the illiterate could …

Learning To Swim, Richard R. Williams

Perspectives (1969-1979)

For, regardless of the current flurry of excitement concerning new directions in teaching and learning, I feel that we are still adrift and perilously off course when it comes to assessing what is in our best interest. Almost everyone nowadays is talking about educational reforms and there is a good deal of agreement that change must be in the direction of fostering more humanistic, life-enhancing processes. More often than not, however, what we term bold new ventures into self-discovery, enhancement of growth, or whatever phrase suits our taste, are actually old and quite stale wines in new wineskins. An old …

Perspectives Vol. 3 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Education For Wholeness, Arnold Gerstein

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The education of character does not mean the learning of maxims or habits and their inter-relationships. It means not remaining in and with ourselves. In the context of my teaching, it means not interfering with the independence of the student to form and to ask questions about that which he wants to know or become aware of now, that which disturbs or delights him now, and that which he may come to know tomorrow. Interference occurs when we manipulate the student to our way of seeing the world and man, rather than opening him up and drawing him in. This …

Perspectives Vol. 2 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Western Michigan University Newsletter, December 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Physical Sciences Complex Dedicated
• Dr. Maurice Seay Named Acting Dean College of Education
• Six WMU Faculty Members Receive Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Awards
• WMU Alumni Association Events
• Women Urged to Begin Search for Fulfillment In Meetings at WMU
• Our Ecology: Concern At WM Continues as Do Probing Meetings

A Study Of Factors Related To Student Ratings Of College Instructors, Ronald M. Wolthuis

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Student Attendance And Attrition Of The Entering Class Of 1966 At Western Michigan University, Michael W. Moran

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, October 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Fall Enrollment Soars to 21,713
• WMU Trustees Approve New Approach to Open Visitation
• Dr. Lloyd Swierenga Named Pres. Miller's Admin. Assistant
• Social, Civic and Political Involvement
• Whirlpool Grant Aids Student Volunteers
• Dow Chemical Co. List of Gifts to WMU Mushrooms
• WMU Upward Bound Program Receives U.S. Education Office Grant
• Large Mott Foundation Grant Assists WMU Comm. School Development Cen.
• WMU, Berrien County Churches Aid Migrant Worker School Program
• WMU Hosts First Seminar on Consumerism Held in Michigan
• WMU Aids in Laser Cane Research to Aid Blind
• WM School of Social Work Receives $160,000 to Develop Training Program

Faculty Publications 1968-69, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1968-69 is the seventh major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University . These included, respectively, materials that were published between July 1, 1957 and June 30, 1961; July 1, 1961 and June 30, 1963; July 1, 1963 and June 30, 1965; July 1, 1965 and June 30, 1966; July 1, 1966 and June 30, 1967; and July 1, 1967 and June 30, 1968 . This compilation is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues .

Western Michigan University Newsletter, September 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Apollo 13 Astronauts Made Honorary WMU Alums
• WMU Seeks to Integrate Political Issues With Fall Semester Material
• WMU's First Upward Bound Graduate Is Also First in State
• Annual Fund Drive's Most Unusual Donor Was a Sailor
• Student Environmental Cleanup Activities

Western Michigan University Newsletter, August 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Record Summer Session Enrollment
• Dr. Milton Brawer Record Summer Session Enrollment Named As First WMU Ombudsman
• Trustees OK Name Changes for Three WMU Departments
• WMU's College Level Examination Program Aiding Many Adults
• Departments of Speech Pathology-Audiology and Special Ed. Share Grant
• World Pollution Has Not Yet Reached Irretrievable Point, Says One Expert
• WMU's First Annual Folk Festival Termed A Great Success

University Magazine Vol. 28 No. 3, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• A Matter of Survival-Ours
• Black Americana Studies
• Bronco Sports
• Alumni Report
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• Alumni Association New Life Members

Western Michigan University Newsletter, July 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Thomas Coyne, Ass't. to President Miller, Named WMU Vice President
• Dr. James Griggs Ends 14 Years as Education Dean
• Spring Commencement Was WMU's Most Prestigious
• Spring Session Enrollment Was Another Record
• A Look at Student Activism
• Dr. Hellenga Is New Placement Director

Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Undergraduate Catalog 1970-1971, Western Michigan University

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Brown And Gold - 1970, Western Michigan University

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