Innovation Abstracts, Vol. IX, No. 1-28.

This series of one- and two-page abstracts highlights a variety of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the community college. Topics covered in the articles include the use of Hollywood films as a tool for teaching history; displaced homemaker programs; the relationship between teaching and scholarship; helping students write for the real world; incorporating art assignments in science classes; increasing written output among academics; low-cost/high-impact marketing; the practicality of the liberal arts major; learning biology through writing; the instructional skills workshop as a mechanism for instructional and organizational renewal; the START program (Success through Attrition/Retention Techniques) at Jefferson Community College (Kentucky); the partnership exam at Ashland Community College; the "high tech" classroom as a theater for the mind; teaching critical reading as a way of teaching critical thinking; the Faculty Mentor Program at Austin Community College (Texas); writing as a way of learning; implementing a community college wellness program on a shoestring budget; in praise of exhibits; teaching mathematics as a language; beating the high cost of microcomputers; the New Mexico Junior College Part-Time Faculty Program; transitions from the classroom to consulting; bringing faculty together with the "Faculty Forum"; getting students to think; writing in the quantitative classroom; mid-course evaluations; the laboratory practical final; and tips for teaching excellence and student motivation. (UCM)