Accession 1974-02

Panel 1 Disciplines, Professions and Interdisciplinary Studies: The Prospects for the 1980's ( 2 tapes : Tape 2 (Labelled #1) Banquet Dinner Keynote Address by Ernest Boyer, President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Introduction by President Daniel J. Evans.

• Side 1: "Disciplinary Professionalism: Two Views on the Developing Context for Alternative Colleges,: Jeaane Hahn, The Evergreen State College, and Frederick S. Weaver, Hampshire College
• Side 2: Discussants: J. Peter Euben, University of California/Santa Cruz: and Rob Knapp, The Evergreen State College

Panel 2 Comparative Studies of Alternative Education Institutions: St. Olafs, Western College, Stockton College, and the Grand Valley State Colleges:

• Side 1:
  • "Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development in the 1970's: The Paracollege at St. Olafs and the Western College Program,: William Newell, Western College/Miami University
  • "Reaching Out: State College Faculty and Innovative Education," Ingrun Lafleur, Stockton State College.
• Side 2: Discussants: Virginia Ingersoll, The Evergreen State College; John Perkins, The Evergreen State College

Panel 3 Changing Demography of Higher Education: Models for Educating the Adult Lerner

• Side 1:
  • "Communal Learning Center for the Aged and the Undergraduate, 1972 to Present," Douglas Candland, Ernest Keen, Bucknell University.
  • "Prosperity in the 1980's for Lifelong Learning," Aldrich Paul, Edinboro State College.
  • "A Model College for the Urban Adult," Neil Cronin, College of New Rochelle.
• Side 2: Discussants: Jerry Gaff, Project GEM and Margaret Gribskov, The Evergreen State College

Panel 4 Institutional Models: The Evergreen State College

• Side 1: "An Experiment Maturing," Byron Youtz, The Evergreen State College
• Side 2: Discussants: Richard Jones, The Evergreen State College and Charles Teske, The Evergreen State College

Panel 5: Innovation in Very Large Universities

• Side 1:
  • "Marginality, Survival or Prosperity: Interdisciplinary Education at Large Research Unversities," Paul Von Blum, UCLA.
  • "The Federated Learning Community Model," Patrick J. Hill, Federated Learning Communities, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
• Side 2:
  • "Lessons from Twenty Years of Interdisciplinary Educational Experiments," Elizabeth Carpenter, University of Nebraska
  • Discussant: Stephen Monk, University of Washington

Panel 6: The Goddard-Pitkin Legacy

• Side 1: "The Goddard-Pitkin Legacy," Arthur Chickering, Memphis State University
• Side 2: Discussants: George Drury, Empire State College, Jackson Kytle, Antioch University, and Royce Pitkin, Founding and Retired President, Goddard College

Panel 7: Institutional Models: Stockton State College

• Side 1:
  • "Survivors and Survival: Holding on to the Dream at Stockton State," Kenneth Tompkins, Stockton State College.
  • Reconciling Access with Quality: From a Dream in the 60's to a Necessity for the 80's ," William T. Daly, Stockton State College.
• Side 1 & 2: Discussant: Richard Schwartz, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 8: Lessons from Failure and Strategies for Survival, Panel I

• Side 1:
  • "Innovative Politics in Defense of Innovative Education: A Case Study of a Faculty's Struggle for Survival,: Charles Grubb, Southwest State University of Minnesota.
  • "How Tradition is Harnessed to Serve Innovation: A Case Study," Gaylon L. Caldwell, Elbert Covell College, University of the Pacific.
• Side 2: Discussants: John Engoff, University of Vermont and Art Mulka, The Evergreen State College

Panel 9: Conditions that Stimulate Improvement and Innovation: The Role of Foundations and Governmental Change Agents

• Side 1: "Tension and Collaboration: Local Educational Improvement and National Change," Nancy Hoffman, Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education.
• Side 2: Discussant: Gail Norris, Council for Postsecondary Education

Panel 10: Institutional Models: The University of California at Santa Cruz

• Side 1:
  • "The University of California at Santa Cruz: Instutionalizing Eden in a Changing World," George Von der Muhll, UC-Santa Cruz.
  • Discussant: Bill Brown, The Evergreen State College

Panel 11: Faculty as a Factor in Experimentation

• Side 1: "The Professor as a Victim of his Training," Jonathan Fairbanks, Skidmore College.
• Side 2:
  • " The Labor Process at Hampshire College," Robert Rakoff, Laurie Nisopoff, and Frank Homquist, Hampshire College.
  • Discussants: Don Finkel, The Evergreen State College and David Walfish, The Evergreen State College

Panel 12: Experiments in Minority Education

• Side 1: "The Goodrich Scholarship Program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha," Phil Secret, UNO and Stone Thomas [The Evergreen State college]
• Side 2: Audience Discusiion

Panel 13: The Meiklejohn Legacy

• Side 1:
  • "Experiment at San Jose," Mervyn Cadwallader, University of Wisconsin at Plattsville. ]
  • "The Conditions For and Against Experimentation in the Experience of Alexander Meiklejohn," Cyntia Brown, University of California/Berkeley
• Side 2: Discussant: R. Freeman Butts, Stanford University

Panel 14: Lessons from Failure and Strategies for Survival, Panel II

• Side 1: "Gaining Support for Instructional Improvement in a Conservative Context," Nick Eastmond, Utah State University.
• Side 2: Discussants: Pete Sinclair, The Evergreen State College and York Wong, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 15: A Cross Generation View of the Conference: Trends, Questions and Implications for Following Through

• Side 1: A roundtable summary discussion chaireed by Ralph Crowley and Lisle Crawford of the AMECF (Alexander Meiklejohn Experimental College Foundation). Other participants will include Evergreen State College students, faculty and alumni.
  • Introduction and Questions
• Side 2: Circle Discussion