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79 FROM THE CAMPUSES The Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages will be held on the Carroll College campus at Helena in April of 1968. Idaho State University has recently completed its second annual Summer Program in American Studies. The focus of this year's program was the 1920's. The program included class lectures, discussion groups, and individual study. The faculty for the institute were Charles G. Cleaver (English, Gn'nnell College, Iowa), who taught American Studies; Sven Liljeblad (Professor Emeritus, anthropology, Idaho State University), visiting lecturer; Herbert W. Schneider (philosophy, Claremont Graduate School), visiting lecturer; Alfred Frankenstein (art and music critic, San Francisco Chronicle), visiting lecturer ; and Leedice Kissane (English, Idaho State University), coordinator. The name of Colorado Woman's College , Denver, was changed on 1 July to Temple Buell College. President Eugene E. Dawson announced that under its new name the college, "with a substantial new endowment, will continue to be a selective four year liberal arts college for women on a residential campus." The Spanish-Portuguese department at Brigham Young University is again sponsoring a residence program in Mexico this summer. Nearly 70 students will participate, and courses will be taught in Spanish, Latin American history, archeology, anthropology, and political science. Lyman S. Shreeve of the Spanish and Portuguese department will head the program. The German department at Colorado College is investigating the possibility of a study abroad program for Colorado College as wefl as for other colleges in their region. The program would be located in southern Germany or Austria. The Colorado State Legislature has audiorized Metropolitan State College to offer junior and senior years in its curriculum. The Classics department of the University of Arizona will offer this fall, in addition to its present classics degree major, majors in both Greek and Latin. Fort Lewis College of Durango, Colorado , has been awarded a federal grant for $31,286 for a program of extension classes for public school teachers from the San Juan Basin in teaching English to Indian and Spanish-speaking students . Classes will be taught at Ignacio, Durango, Cortez, Farmington, and Shiprock . Gina Harvey of the Fort Lewis faculty will be the instructor for the program. She is a specialist in teaching English as a second language. The report of the joint program of British University Summer Schools (Edinburgh, London, Oxford, Stratford ) shows that from its beginnings in 1947 to 1986, 5,630 American students have attended one or another of the summer sessions. Of these, 104 have come from the Rocky Mountain area. This is half the national average, and is understandable considering the wide differences in orientation and in expenses of travel from those of the eastern seaboard towards Europe. The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado has recently resolved to drop the freshman English composition requirement beginning in the fall of 1968. The 1988 50th anniversary of the Modern Humanities Research Association , which is to be observed by an international meeting in Cambridge University , expects 300 delegates, including about 120 from America. It will be housed in the colleges of St. Catharine's and Kings, some ancient buildings of historic interest and the newest to be finished just in time for the meeting. The dates are now set for 26-31 August 1968; the cost, including room, meals, and conference fee, about $55- $60. For information: J. C. Laidlaw, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England. The theme of the 10th Annual Institute in Technical and Industrial Com- 84 RM-MLA Bulletin September 1967 munications was "Communications in the Coming Decade." The conference was held at Colorado State University 12-16 June and the keynote speaker for the meetings was S. I. Hayakawa, Professor of English at San Francisco State College. The one-week seminar was held to acquaint administrators, writers, educators, and business leaders with new ideas in communications. An invitational conference based on the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald will be held by the English department of Wichita State University in October. The conference will include high school students from the area. Arthur Mizener (English, Cornell University) will be guest lecturer and consultant. A content analysis conference is planned for 17-19 November at the University of...

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