Sent to GMU 27 September 2007. This is one the Papers by Other Authors which Warfield calls "Comparison Papers." Warfield adds them to his collection of teaching materials with the hope that researchers will identify them as a CONTRAST to his own methods and even study them for errors of thinking. He won't say which of the papers by others in his Collection are junk and which are good stuff, plans to leave that investigation to the future scholar. However, I did get out of him that this is at least one report which he does not admire because it falls far short of what is available today in processing this kind of knowledge. Quote from the report: "The Association for Integrative Studies, a professional organization for educators in interdisciplinary education and scholarship, commissioned the task force on interdisciplinary general education accreditation guidelines in response to a request from the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). There is no authorized accrediting body for interdisciplinary education, and this organization is not in a position to act as one by overseeing site visits by teams. Our task was to develop appropriate criteria of accreditation for interdisciplinary general education. The criteria we offer are advisory. Nonetheless, the recommendations of the task force may be taken as state-of-the-art counsel that can be published and endorsed by other professional groups such as AAC&U." Warfield's off the cuff comments ( I couldn't get him to even write a short note, much less submit a formal review or critique): This is an example of what a group of liberal arts people think is a good way to do things across disciplines. It is good to compare this paper with my system, which is better. The AIS society has ignored everything I have been trying to teach for the last 20 years. What are your documents or books that would apply to this particular AIS report? Everything I’ve written has been of that nature. For one thing, they start out wrong, by being constrained as to WHAT’S IN A DISCIPLINE which is an unwelcome constraint.