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Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 2

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The New Context Of General And Liberal Education, Harold L. Hodgkinson

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The keynote address for the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies at Oklahoma State University, October 18-October 20, 1973.

An Interdisciplinary Humanities Program As An Approach To Literature, Frederick F. Ritsch

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Let me conclude with a statement from Maxwell Goldberg, the author of Design in Liberal Learning: "Without becoming amorphous or aimless," writes Professor Goldberg, "we are trying to replace the static, mechanical, closed-system, monistic, and self-contained routine thinking of conventional liberal learning with the open-structured, pluralistic, multilinear, multilectic thinking of the new liberal learning." He provides us with an excellent metaphor here: the concept of "freedom flowing into form."* And I might add, in our case we do not seek a "new humanism," but rather seek to revitalize the presentation of that humanism which is an integral part of …

Liberal Arts And Livelihood: A Dual Design For Higher Education, George E. Lamore Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

True, there have been exceptions, and every educator thinks he is one, but generally speaking, the Liberal Arts student or graduate is deeply confused, disappointed and frustrated. He is aware that his college has taught him to think, but not to be a person or to do a job. For education to neglect these dimensions of the heart and hands is to produce something more tragic than the multiple amputee. It is to produce a truncated head, absolved from personhood and detached from practicality.

Reflections On General Education, Ollin J. Drennan

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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.

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

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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

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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

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Volume 5 No. 1 Spring 1973

Supplement No. 1 Summer 1973

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

General Education: What Type Of Structure?, Woodburn O. Ross, Lawrence E. Taliana, Harold Schroeder

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Panel 1 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting, which was held at Southern Illinois University, October 21^st through 23^rd, 1971.

General Education And Specialization: Are They Meeting The Needs Of Society?, Midge Smith, Midori Y. Banks

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Panel 2 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting, which was held at Southern Illinois University, October 21^st through 23^rd, 1971.

The needs of society will best be met when the needs of all its members are being met.

Do general education and specialized education meet the needs of contemporary society? It is easier to evaluate specialized education. As to general education, we must first ask ourselves pertinent questions, such as "What are we actually expecting general and liberal education to do?"

General Education And The Quality Of Human Living, Thomas J. Musial

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Because Willis Nutting is now also my good friend and neighbor, I have had the continuing good fortune of watching him implement the precepts of his book. He has never allowed me to forget that a man is a person before he is a civic leader or an expert, and that it is therefore more sensible for educators to give priority of concern to the man himself, so that if possible he may become wise and understanding. He has convinced me that it is by no means certain that the kind of training necessary to make a man a specialist …

Violence And General Education, Alan Downes, Wolf D. Fuhrig, J. Warrren Brinkman, John Noonan

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In this era when technology transforms the world at an accelerating pace, offering us ever-larger magnitudes of potential disaster, it is questionable whether my students can survive the next fifty years if they remain in the grip of the traditional orthodoxies, the folk knowledge, the myths which allow the same elites to retain control. Only if my students are trained to order their priorities and test their predictions free of the covert command and metaphysical traps of ideological language-only then can they see the alternative options open to them. The ambient status quo is, after all, merely one violent option. …

Perspectives Vol. 4 No. 2

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General Education And The Environment, Barry Commoner

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Featured Address presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting, which was held at Southern Illinois University, October 21^st through 23^rd, 1971.

Enriching General Education: Seeds And Plowshares, J. W. Brinkman

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In the years during which debate over the purpose and content of general education has raged, every conceivable bit of curricular gimmickry has been proposed and often tried. With few exceptions most of these efforts were possessed of at least one common feature- they were conventional or quasi-conventional academic, classroom or laboratory experiences. Until recently little attention was paid to the possibility of employing a broad range of non-academic experiences in the total general education component of the college program of study. What follows is a suggestion of experiences or activities of a non-academic type which could be adapted to …

Law , Justice And Education, James Ahern

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James Ahern is the former Chief of Police of New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest. He was a featured speaker at the Annual Meeting of AGLS at Rochester Institute of Technology, October 26-28, 1972.

Strange Bedfellows: Academic Freedom And Violence, Glenda Lawhorn

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Although we are at the present time experiencing some relief from the violence of student unrest, the American society, especially the most formally educated part of it, seems to be even more confused than usual. On practically every campus in America, learned professors who vociferously decried the student's use of strikes as a means of gaining power are arguing in the same breath for the use of collective bargaining and the threat of strikes as a means of gaining power for themselves. More than ever, professors, college administrators and trustees are paying lip service to the idea of academic freedom, …