Newsletter Index - Volume 15

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Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1993

Call for Papers for fifteenth annual conference of the AIS, October 7-10, in Detroit, Michigan. sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Wayne State University.
Review of Literature and Technology, Research and Technology Studies, eds. Mark L. Greenburg and Lance Schachterle.
Integrative Studies Core Program at Michigan State, by John T. Greene, Director of Integrative Studies
Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science- a new journal in its second year edited by Nikki R. Keddie, professor of history at UCLA.
Integrated Studies at UND- program started in fall 1986. The freshmen anticipating teaching are encouraged by teaching educators to take a semester of their general education requirement in "Integrated Studies."
NSF IDS Program- soliciting proposals for a new funding program in "Collaborative Research in Geosciences, Geography, and Mathematical Sciences." Applicants contact H. Jean Thiebaux at the NSF.
Arts Network- AIS conference in Pomona held a special significance for the arts. The Arts Network is now firmly established, is quite healthy and primed for rapid growth.
Job Wanted by Robert Domaingue, Ph.D. in Adult Education.

 

Volume 15, Number 2, May, 1993

Kenneth Boulding, In Memorium, (Died quietly and peacefully at age 83 after a ten month bout with cancer on March 18, 1993)
Systems-Based Gen Ed Science by Professor Len Troncale (The ISGE at Cal Poly Pomona; grants received from NSF to develop three courses for non majors that present science, not by discipline but by 12 common features such as chaos across disciplines.

News in Brief:

  • The University of Chicago Press launched new quarterly journal, Perspectives on Science; Historical, Philosophical, Social, devoted to studies on the sciences that integrate historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives.
  • Textbook produced, Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical, of interest to interdisciplinary social scientists. by Richard D. Wolff and Stephen A. Resnik, professors of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
  • The Institute for the Study of Postsecondary Education announces third annual conference on "Interdisciplinary Curricula, General Education, and Liberal Learning".

Volume 15, Number 3, October, 1993

Wide & Narrow Interdisciplinarity (A need to distinguish between "narrow" and "wide" interdisciplinarity and integration), by J.S. Kelly, Miami University.
Position Available (Social Sciences faculty position Beginning August 15, 1994 at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC.
Institute Journal (Excerpts from one journal by 1992-93 Institute Participant, Sheryl St. Germain, University of Southwestern Louisiana.
MINDSCAPES: The Epistemology of Magoroh Maruyama, a much needed tool for understanding the diverse cultural and personality types that interact in today's world. Edited by Michael T. Caley of Science Alberta Foundation, Canada and Daiyo Sawada of University of Alberta, Canada.

News in Brief:

  • Job Wanted by Petter Tommerup, Ph.D. from UCLA
  • Ingrun Lafleur, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of History at SUNY Plattsburgh, and long-time enthusiastic member of AIS, died June 7 at age 52 after a long bout with brain cancer.
  • IUC Courses, a partnership of colleges and universities that develop and use media assisted course package for adults.
  • AGLSP Conference, annual conference of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs was held in Washington, DC October 28-30, 1993, on the theme of "Reflections on the Good Society."
  • SLS Conference, annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science held November 18-21, 1993, in Boston featured a wide array of almost exclusively interdisciplinary sessions.
Student Pugwash, USA's Eighth Annual Conference on "Science and Technology for the 21st Century: Meeting the Needs of the Global Community"

Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1993

Call for Papers for AIS Conference (Sept. 29-Oct. 2, Pittsburgh, PA)
Two Positions Available at Wayne State University (Two tenure-track assistant professors).
Review of Knowledges : Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity, by David Sebberson, St. Cloud State University.
1993-94 AIS Officers- Elected in September and Installed in October.
The Nature of Integrative Study (presented as an aid to those interested in integrative dimensions of thought.) by long-time AIS member, Joseph Engleberg. Principles for Interdisciplinary Education from Jerry Gaff's AIS Keynote Address on October 8, 1993, at the AIS conference in Detroit.
New IDS Journal, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, (a new semi-annual journal published by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, edited by Patrick D. Murphy and Cheryl Burgess.)

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