Contents:
Local Wesleyan Links
National Institutes, Study Centers
Conferences
Specialty Topics: Ethics Across the Curriculum, Technology and Teaching, Distance Learning, Gerald Graff and "Teaching the Conflicts"
High School Curricular Reform, U.S. Government Pages
History of Liberal Arts Higher Education
Books, Articles, Online Journals
Miscellaneous Links

LOCAL WES LINKS:
Curricular Renewal Intro Page
"Wesleyan Education for the 21st Century"
"Curricular Renewal in the Liberal Arts and Sciences"
"General Education in the Sciences and Mathematics Committee Report"
A partial list of other liberal arts colleges and universities and their curricular renewal sites

NATIONAL INSTITUTES, STUDY CENTERS

• AERA--American Educational Research Association
  • AERA Special-Interest Groups list
• Nat'l Education Association: Higher Education
• The American Association of Higher Education (AAHE)
• The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (U.S. d.o.E.)
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RECENT AND UPCOMING CONFERENCES See the list of conference links for more

• February '99, Trinity College, Hartford: The Liberal Arts College in the 21st Century: Challenges and Responsibilities
• May 10-12, 1996, Augustana U. Coll., Alberta: Liberal Arts and the Future of University Education
• October '99, Jackson, Wyoming, NRMERA Conference: The Politics of Schooling: Creating Communities of Solidarity and Hope
• AACU's list of upcoming Working Conferences
• AAHE's list of past and upcoming Conferences

Ethics Across the Curriculum:

• Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, misc. Applied Ethics WWW resources--some dead links on here.
• More Ethics links from Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (University of Tübingen; German/English)--site includes lectures from June 1999 conference, projects on biomedicine and biotechnology ethics, online searches, etc.

Technology and teaching:

• Catalyst Method Guides--University of Washington
• Institute for Learning Technologies--Columbia University
• Senate Bill 491--Education for the 21st Century Act [note: timed cgi-bin query; search under "sb491"]
  Purpose: "It is the purpose of this Act to enable America's schools to use their computer hardware to increase student achievement and prepare students for the 21st century workplace."
• Educause--Internet technologies and education

Distance Learning

• "The Virtual Campus: Technology and Reform in Higher Education" [ERIC Digests]
• Education and Technology, Distance Learning: Online Calculus

"Teaching the Conflicts"

• A note on the term "Politically Correct"dd
• "Lecturer Challenges Teaching Trend"--an article about Gerald Graff. The University of Tulsa Collegian, September 6, 1996

HIGH SCHOOL STANDARDS, REFORM; GOV'T PAGES

U.S. Dept. of Education homepage

• The Nation's Report Card--Reading report (Acrobat format)
• Report on 8th-grade mathematics achievement
• USDE publications
• EDInfo Mailing List Archive--includes discussions of current issues facing k-12 education, some stuff on postsecondary ed.
• Office of Postsecondary Education--includes articles, initiatives, discussions of "early college awareness," distance learning, Higher Education Acts, teacher quality education.

• Center for Research in Educational Policy
• Funderstanding: About Learning: Curriculum Theories defined
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  Funderstanding's Discussion Board
  summary: Funderstanding is a platform for topics concerning U.S. education--mostly k-12--and lists as its goal, "to revolutionize the way people use learning to drive success."  Web pages include reviews of new teaching tools, list of multimedia educators' resources, and articles on "intellectual capital," "emotional intelligence," and current education theories.

HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION/ LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION

• History of higher education in the U.S.--Wash. State U. project
• History of the Ideas of University--U. of Northern British Columbia
• An outline of the Seven Liberal Arts of Medieval education

BOOKS, ARTICLES AND ONLINE JOURNALS

• Excite's list of online Education Journals
• Harvard Educational Review
• Chronicle of Higher Education--Subscription and password required; hard copies available in most academic offices at Wesleyan.
• The Journal of Critical Pedagogy
• Biology Education Review
• The Review of Higher Education
  • "Student Academic Underpreparedness"--J. Michael Pitts, et al. summer '99
    summary: A study surveying faculty in two open-admissions U.S. colleges on their observations of students' unpreparedness for college-level education. This article touches on the issues of faculty expectations, students' efforts in comprehension, and the dynamics between faculty, students, and administration in achieving a satisfactory provision of a college education.
  • "Restructuring U.S. Higher Education: Analyzing Models for Academic Program Review and Discontinuation"--Steve O. Michael, summer '98
    abstract: "The importance of program review and discontinuation in adynamic, growth-oriented higher education system like that in theUnited States cannot be overemphasized. This paper provides models helpful to the policy makers and scholars who are interested in program discontinuation. The paper also provides levels of policy decisions for program discontinuation and examines models that may be found appropriate and effective at each level.  The paper concludes with a set of program-discontinuation related recommendations."
• CNN: "Internet Changing Economics of Higher Education"--5/5/99 distance learning, adult education.
• Philosophical Choices: "'Our' world, 'my' world"--Mark Shadle
  summary: An overview of changing views of the nature of education, and an outline of different 20th century approaches and challenges to education and knowledge. Includes a call to students to "redefine their roles."
• Paul Axelrod: "Challenges to Liberal Education in an Age of Uncertainty"--Historical Studies in Education (English/French)
  summary: Evaluation of the education "crises" brought up by Allen Bloom and others; this article asserts that liberal arts education is "at risk" because of current economic and social change as well as intellectual. Includes a brief description and history of liberal arts education.
• "The Fate of the Notion of Canon in the Electronic Age"--Robert M. Fowler
  summary: the present and future states of the "literary canon" in the age of hypertext. Mentions Graff's "teaching the conflicts" as a method in accord with hypertext theory.
• Pedagogical Renewal's reading list  (under construction)

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

• List of Web Sites from Stanford's ED208B: Intro to Curricular Development