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The Ursinus Weekly, February 24, 1977, Alan Stetler, Cindy Shelmire, George Geist, Ann Weibezahl, Robert Brancatelli, Donald R. Whittaker, Robert Schuman, Stephanie Dent, Gregg Lecheler, Joseph Saraco, Lawrence Mroz

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus news in brief: Weekly to accept applications; Poli. Sci. Washington trip; Ursinus to exhibit frakturs; More on absenteeism; Pre Legal meets • U.S.G.A. election results • Wismer, sunshine discussed • James Craft interviewed • Dining hall probed • Letters to the editor: Information please!; TGV and South Africa • Wild blue yonder • ELO Lives!! • Cassandra • Denenberg speaks • Photos • Immaculata here tonight • "Up" for the match • Swimming "bare machine" rolls on, but men lose • Elsewhere in UC sports scene

The Ursinus Weekly, February 9, 1977, Alan Stetler, Sharon Tuberty, Ann Weibezahl, Cindy Shelmire, Stephen M. Lange, George Geist, Mary Beth Kramer, Barbara Ann Vincent, Mark T. Di Marcangelo, Donald R. Whittaker, Andrew Schwartz, Joseph Saraco, Lawrence Mroz

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus news in brief: Summer employment outlook; Temple adopts plus, minus grades; U.S.G.A. releases absenteeism data; Craft named exec. assistant • Cafeteria trials successful • Testing rule changed • Calendar to be reviewed • S.F.A.R.C. discusses counseling, vandalism • Comment: A short lesson in Weekly economics • Ursinus: a suburban wasteland • Our common cause • Transcript hassles • Forum review: Musical notes • Let's line up for Wismer • TGV • Seniors plan dinner dance • Art exhibition • Pre-Legal group meets • Basketball loses again • Commentary: Is a new coach needed? • Swimming teams resume seasons • …

1977 Ruby Yearbook, Iris S. Polaski, Barb Lanoce, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1977 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Toward A New Synthesis In The Post-Disciplinary Era, Hoke L. Smith

Perspectives (1969-1979)

When we discuss the relationship between general education and work, our own semantic myths can easily trap us. General education, liberal education, and career education are labels which we have used to categorize bundles of learning experiences. Although frequently useful to simplify thought, the educational concepts behind these labels often represent illusory rather than actual goals and their meaning assumes a protoplasmic character, visible but elusive, constantly shifting in shape. Current attempts to define and clarify the relationships among general, career, and liberal education are hindered by the rapid educational evolution now occurring, as American postsecondary education moves from the …

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor's Page for Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1

Cooperative Education - General Education: A New Synthesis?, John J. Romano

Perspectives (1969-1979)

When I first proposed this paper some months ago I had a number of specific purposes in mind. First, I'd grown interested in the development of a concept in American higher education which has been termed cooperative education. Secondly, I wondered about the linkages between cooperative education and what traditionally we have called general or liberal education. Thirdly, I wondered if the linkages between these two concepts were of recent origin or have they existed for a long time without formal recognition. Fourthly, I wondered if this " new synthesis" was something that could have a significant impact on the …

Commentary On - "The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four Year Experience At Whittier College", Eugene Wine

Perspectives (1969-1979)

I read with interest Michael McBride's article on the exploratory year at Whittier College. While I am sure that Whittier is satisfied with it and that it contains a number of innovative ideas, such as the "initial module" in various disciplines, I want to speak to the three assumptions upon which Professor McBride and his colleagues rejected any common interdisciplinary general education course for Whittier. I do so because the assumptions are so widely held and because Professor McBride states them so succinctly. I also speak to them as an admitted partisan of a common transdisciplinary general education core course …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The Editor's Page for Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 2

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Perspectives For Moral Education In Higher Education, William P. Frost

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Much of the literature on moral education is of a psychological nature with an emphasis on the individual's responsibility to the challenges of the social environment. The valuable is perceived in terms of (1) the development of the person as (2) a member of society. These publications fail to identify perspectives according to which living and growing become meaningful. Paul Kurtz recognizes this shortcoming.

Many people in post-modern society -young and old - lack direction in their lives, a meaning or purpose. Often it is the " liberated" individuals who seem most vulnerable to a confusion of values and to …

Preliminary Program: Association For General And Liberal Studies 17th Annual National Conference

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Preliminary Program

Association for General and Liberal Studies

17^th Annual National Conference

Weber State College - Ogden, Utah 84408

October 27, 28, And 29, 1977

"General Education: Diversity by Design"

Agls And General Education - Reflections By The President, A. J. Carlson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The Association for General and Liberal Studies serves as "a forum for professional people concerned with undergraduate general and liberal education in each of the several divisions of the curriculum." At least, that is what the Bylaws indicate. But as I talk to people about the organization several more specific questions keep emerging: " What exactly is AGLS anyway?" "Why should I spend $10 a year to support AGLS?" " What is Interdisciplinary Perspectives?" These questions suggest that the Association has as its first problem - to use the current jargon - a very large "communication gap."

English Literature As A Liberal Study In Primary Teachers' Colleges., D. M. Murison

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

In 1972, in a survey of literature teaching in Victorian primary teachers' colleges, all but one had a year of compulsory adult literature. At the time, most English lecturers considered this to be essential. However, now much has changed, and literature lecturers, faced with offering courses which are no longer compulsory, have thought again.

The Woof And The Warp, S. R. Wiersteiner

Perspectives (1969-1979)

What is the mission of the university: To prepare for life, or to prepare for a career? If one follows the secular press and pursues the various journals concerned with higher education, one is struck with the " either/or" nature of the articles and comments concerning the goal of a university. But should it be an " either/or" question? Can the preparation for life's work be divorced from the preparation to enjoy that life to its fullest? The whole cloth is not made from only the woof, it must also include the warp.

The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four-Year Experience At Whittier College, Michael J. Mcbride

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Most students begin college with little idea about the field of study they will eventually pursue. Some have made a decision in this area , but often have only a vague notion of what is implied in such a decision. Yet, in both cases, the general pattern of liberal arts colleges is to put such students into a general studies program for two years consisting of required or strongly recommended courses. While students may gain a broad educational background, those with little idea about their future area of concentration must base a decision regarding the " major" on a brief …

Innovative Adult General Education: The Detroit Experiment, David W. Hartman, Richard T. Bohan, Otto Feinstein, Sandra Loehr, Linda Michalowski, F. Richard Place

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Increasingly, universities have confronted a changing population of undergraduate students. They find themselves under considerable scrutiny, from legislators, taxpayers and potential students. Concurrently, the impetus to re-appraise the mission of undergraduate education, so as to insure its accommodation in our changing society, is in need of refocusing. The issue of who comes to the university, and for what end, stands foresquare in the face of faculties, administrators and elected guardians of higher education, now more than ever before. Again we are charged with providing curricula and format that are relevant enough to retain the attention of today's new student, that …

Philosophy As Humanistic Model, Gary R. Sudano

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Science and philosophy both reach "straight into experience and arrange it with new meaning."² The novice in philosophy is struck by its attempts to provide answers to the essential questions of life. Indeed, he often becomes impatient with philosophical theories which seem to backtrack and are analytic rather than speculative, and philosophy instructors are careful to balance critical activities with answer-generating activities in the classroom. In most cases the student tends to pass lightly over the former in order to get to the meat of the latter. This is the first at traction of philosophy for students, if there …

Improving Humanities Education: Philosophy And Design, Ronald W. Carstens

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Both the Hebrew notion of the fall and the Greek concept of hubris have taught us that human endeavors are essentially acts of pride and possibly acts of arrogance. I suppose that a paper entitled "Improving Humanities Education" would be judged to be as at least impertinent in as much as it suggests that the teaching of the humanities can or ought to be improved. But I believe it is possible to improve the way that body of human intellectual and artistic study of man as man we call the humanities is addressed and actualized in the formal process of …

The Human Experience, Dimensions Of Love: An Experiment In Interdisciplinary Studies, Patricia Ernenwein Zevin, Gene Sager, Brenda Montiel

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Dedicated to the support of interdisciplinary studies as intellectually sound and academically necessary, this paper is an expanded version of the presentation made by the authors during the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of General and Liberal Studies (October 27-29, 1977, Ogden, Utah). The subject of the conference, "General Education: Diversity by Design," seemed to the Interdisciplinary Studies team at Palomar College (including, in addition to the authors, Donna Tryon, Art, Richard Peacock, Film, and Don Piche, Philosophy) to be particularly appropriate to efforts there to establish a series of interdisciplinary courses in a thematic, team-taught design focusing on …

Convention Report: Focusing On General Education At Chicago Aahe, Peyton Richter

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The spotlight during discussions of general education at the AAHE 1978 National Conference on Higher Education in Chicago (March 19-22) played back and forth upon Harvard's Dean Henry Rosovsky and the Harvard Report on the Core Curriculum. A modest but confident pragmatist, Rosovsky, as a panelist at a major session of the conference, began by reminding us that welcoming college graduates each year to the company of educated men and women makes sense only if we know what an educated person is. He and his committee, after much discussion and deliberation, had decided that an educated person: (1) must be …

Opinion Writing For Publication, Richard P. Bailey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

So, when the "writing crisis" hit the pedagogical fan, I was ready with an "innovative" method (so dear to the hearts of educators) for teaching writing. What had lurked in my mind for years pushed its way from subconscious to conscious - i.e ., the only completely satisfying reward for good writing is publication. Students who are given a better reason for writing than the bored approval of a graduate student and/or an arbitrary grade by a young instructor marking papers and time until a section of English Lit. 5,000 opens - students with appetites whetted by the dream of …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor's Page from Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 3

General Education For Living And The Value Of Work: Are They Compatible?, Noojin Walker

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Almost ten years ago the United States Commissioner of Education, Sidney Marland, introduced into the educational vocabulary a new expression - career education. Since then we, in higher education and especially liberal arts and general education, have given little thought to the concept. Because all of us know that vocationalism has no place in a liberal arts education. Consequently, career education also has no place. Yet over the last few years I have observed what appears to be an erosion. Some faculty have moved from hostility to indifference, to cautious support, and, in some cases, to active support of the …

The Ursinus Weekly, December 16, 1976, Alan Stetler, Cindy Shelmire, Stephanie Dent, Ann Weibezahl, Steven Schirk, Andrew Schwartz, Joseph Saraco, Ralph Mchenry

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus news in brief: Career seminar held; Insurance coverage modified; Correction • Tuition, Gourman discussed • Richter talks to USGA • Dept Chairmen react to SFARC letter • Letter to the editor: Reply and support • Student Activities Committee Fall 1976 allocations • Casino Night action • Ursinus replies to Gourman Report • Messiah performed • U.C. runners compete • B-ball needs time • Another super hockey season • Ursinus indoor track • Swimmers splash to two victories

The Ursinus Weekly, December 2, 1976, Alan Stetler, Bonnie Dixon, Irwin H. Wolfert, Stephen M. Lange, Barbara Ann Vincent, Kamala R. Chapman, Donald R. Whittaker, Donna L. Phillips, Joseph Saraco, Andrew Schwartz, Warren Fritz

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus news in brief: Field hockey places second; Take 'em to court?; McCarthy addresses Pre-Legal group; Forum Committee finalizes program • Alumni Directory published • Board plans tuition increase; Welcomes two new members • Career night planned • RPR addresses faculty • CR's make a difference • Letters to the editor: More on "Fritz"; A backside view of Wismer cafeteria • Comment: A tale of two students • Musical notes • Forum reviews: Tapestry, Mostovoys • Two gentlemen at Ursinus • Movie review: Network • Union board meets • Philly Co. • Bears 0-9 ... but the future looks brighter …

The Ursinus Weekly, November 11, 1976, Alan Stetler, Sharon Tuberty, Richard P. Richter, Samuel S. Laucks Ii, Donald R. Whittaker, Steven Schirk, Joseph Saraco, Mary Beth Kramer

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus news in brief: U.S.G.A. passes resolution; Sigma Xi to host speakers; Switzer named to federal board • U.C. student's paper honored • Ursinus installs Richter • Gourman Report slated • Academic Council reports • Comment: Congratulations President Richter • Letter to the editor: Response to "Trees" • Founder's Day: A presidential inauguration • Text of Pres. Richter's inaugural speech • U.C. band advances • Review: Al Stewart • The Wismer approach to gourmet dining • Devils beat Bears • Volleyball season wrap-up • X-country runs eleventh in MAC • Elsewhere in MAC

The Ursinus Weekly, November 4, 1976, Alan Stetler, Cindy Shelmire, Irwin H. Wolfert, Graham Phillip, Kamala R. Chapman, Donald R. Whittaker, Robert Brancatelli, Jonathan Zap, Joseph Saraco, Keith Wright, Kevin Davies

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus news in brief: S.F.A.R.C. approves letter; Ursinus to install new President; Schwalm invites students; Temple U. presents Brecht • Alarms, finance discussed • U.S.G.A. meets • Law professionals hosted • Comment: Why more trees? • Plant talk • Letter to the editor: Rules blasted • Photo concert • Bause files for patent • Marathon man • Harriers win one of three • Widener rips Bears • Hockey wins continue • Soccer loses two

The Ursinus Weekly, October 28, 1976, Alan Stetler, George Geist, Donald R. Whittaker, Stephen M. Lange

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus News in Brief: Fourteen chosen for Who's who; P.M. Rabin "dismayed"; Garnet squad spoils Homecoming • McCarthy rep visits Ursinus • State candidates view higher education • An evening of one acts • Comment: Exercise your right • GOP and Dems: Aimless search?? • Letter to the editor: Election explained