About the Contributors.

Preface.

Foreword.

Section I: Historical Perspectives and Institutional Examples.

1. Progressive experiments in higher education in the 1920s and 1930s (Steven R. Coleman, essayist).

2. The innovative colleges and universities of the 1960s and 1970s (Joy Rosenzweig Kliewer, University of Sarasota–California Campus).

3. Interdisciplinary education at Hampshire College (Ann P. McNeal and Frederick Stirton Weaver, Hampshire College).

4. Evergreen at twenty-five: Sustaining long-term innovation (Barbara Leigh Smith, The Evergreen State College).

5. Bridging theory and practice: Public service at The Evergreen State College (Magda Costantino, Emily Decker, Jeanine L. Elliott, Tina Kuckkahn, and Helen Lee, The Evergreen State College).

Section II: Powerful Pedagogies.

Part One: Learning Communities.

6. Learning communities: A convergence zone for statewide educational reform (Barbara Leigh Smith, The Evergreen State College).

7. Integration and assessment of service-learning in learning communities (Karen Kashmanian Oates, New Century College; Laura Gaither, Argonauta Interiors).

8. Liberal education, learning communities, and the transformative quest (Les K. Adler, Sonoma State University).

9. Toward an interdisciplinary epistemology: Faculty culture and institutional change (Grant H. Cornwell and Eve W. Stoddard, St. Lawrence University).

10. Voices in seminar: Ideologies and identities (Susan Fiksdal, The Evergreen State College).

Part Two: Rethinking Teaching and Learning.

11. Powerful pedagogies (William H. Newell, Miami University in Oxford).

12. Two ways to organize interdisciplinary study around inquiry (Donald L. Finkel, The Evergreen State College).

13. Multiple forms of communication in the classroom (Mark Pedelty, University of Minnesota).

14. Student-active science in interdisciplinary studies: Problems and solutions (Janet F. Ott, The Evergreen State College).

15. Increasing access in the sciences through interdisciplinary feminist perspectives (Gary L. Bornzin, Fairhaven College).

16. Building an organization that reflects interdisciplinarity (Anne G. Scott and Celestino Fernández, University of Arizona).

17. The academic department in a multidisciplinary context: An argument for the administrative holding company amidst communities of learners (Joseph J. Comprone, University of Connecticut–Avery Point).

18. The importance of organizational culture (Sandra J. Sarkela, SUNY Potsdam).

19. Reconceptualizing the faculty role: Alternative models (James R. Chen, Michael V. Fortunato, Alan Mandell, Susan Oaks, and Duncan RyanMann, SUNY Empire State College).

Section III: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead.

20. Interdisciplinary assessment for interdisciplinary programs (Karl L. Schilling, State Council of Higher Education).

21. Students on interdisciplinary education: How they learn and what they learn (John McCann, The Evergreen State College).

22. An ethnographic/folkloristic approach to analyzing and assessing the cultures of alternative institutions (Peter Tommerup, California School of Professional Psychology).

23. The interdisciplinary variable: Then and now (Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University).

24. An essay in guiding images for college teaching and learning (Robert H. Knapp, Jr., The Evergreen State College).

25. New directions for alternative education (Robert Benedetti, University of the Pacific).

26. Knowledge, politics, and interdisciplinary education (Charles W. Anderson, University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Index.