Relevance and Higher Education: Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 1968

Authors

Walter D. Weir, University of Colorado

Date of this Version

1968

Document Type

Book

Citation

RELEVANCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION EDITED BY WALTER D. WEIR NATIONAL COLLEGIATE HONORS COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, ANNUAL MEETING, 1968

Abstract

The papers in this volume were presented at the third annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Washington, October 18-20, 1968. The papers indicate our focus on the problems of the relevance of curricula to learning and the relevance of higher education to the world. Black and white students alike urged us to make our programs, our curricula, and our concerns more relevant to the moral and social issues of our time, more relevant to a truly liberal education.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1- Relevance: An Introduction • Walter D. Weir

Chapter 2- And Lose the Name of Action • James L. Jarrett

Chapter 3- Conversation, Cooperation, and Community • James H. Robertson

Chapter 4- Rigor, Relevance, and Revolt • H. C. Taylor, Jr

Chapter 5- Responses from the Conference • Harold D. Hantz, Joseph Cohen, & Floor

Chapter 6- On Relevance and Meaning in Higher Education • Harold D. Hantz

Chapter 7- Relevance and the Role of Honors • Myron J. Lunine

Chapter 8- Relevance: The University and the Business World

— Closing the Communication Gap Between Business and Education • Nils O. Eklund, Jr.; Response • Robert O. Evans

— How to Tell Educators From Businessmen • Ralph E. Boynton & Response by Myron J. Lunine, with Further Responses by David V. Harrington, John A. Hague, David Wildermuth, & Final Response by Ralph E. Boynton

Chapter 9- A Student View of Relevance • David Wildermuth

Chapter 10- Relevance In Action

— Toward a Relevant Curriculum • John A. Hague

— How Do We Go About Encouraging Creative Achievement? • David V. Harrington

— Is Completely Independent Study Possible? • Frederick Sontag

— The Kentucky Colloquia-A Search for Relevance • Robert O. Evans

— A Program Emerging • Thomas W. Phelan; Response by William W. Kelly

— Honors Programs in Vocational Curricula • M. Jean Phillips

— The Honors Program and the Student • Robert Cumbow

— Fashioning an Honors Program: Report on a Calculus of Relevance • Kyle C. Sessions and L. Moody Simms, Jr.

— Once-Only Activities Are Relevant • J. O. Kopplin

— TIPS: A Program in Liberal Studies for Honors Students • Robert Lowell Stevens

Chapter 11- Presidential Address: Growth of Honors Programs • Vishnu N. Bhatia

Appendix

Program of Meeting

NCHC Institutional Membership