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Vann, Carl R.; Singer, Philip – Change, 1972
Author compares today's colleges with psychiatric hospitals. (HS)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Campuses, Classroom Environment, College Environment

Wong, Frank E. – Change, 1991
Cultural diversity is an urgent challenge to higher education institutions requiring a communitywide coordinated effort among community sectors. Pluralism is not an end in itself, but a means to the larger purpose of gaining intellectual growth and human insight. Diversity without community is anarchy; community without diversity is fantasy. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Environment, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change

Cross, K. Patricia – Change, 2001
Uses 9 years of applications of award finalists for the Hesburgh Award for innovation in undergraduate teaching to examine leading-edge efforts to improve teaching and learning in 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. Describes efforts in three major categories: improving teaching, redesigning courses, and changing the learning environment of…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement

Epstein, Helen – Change, 1976
Descriptions of Juilliard's reputation, student selection process, staff, and study program illustrate the pressures experienced by the student. The school emphasizes the traditional, nineteenth century role of the musician, which is thought to promote an aloof and remote sensibility of people to art. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Environment, Higher Education, Music Education, Music Techniques

Gamson, Zelda F. – Change, 1997
Colleges' and universities' commitment to community service is largely lip service. Conditions that would encourage more than just the very committed do not exist on most campuses. Communities are not voids to be organized and filled by the more knowledgeable; they are well-developed, complex, and sophisticated organisms that demand to be…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education

Scott, Joan Wallach – Change, 1991
Criticism of "political correctness" on college campuses is no longer an internal debate about curriculum. Journalists and politicians have entered the debate, and the entire enterprise of the university, including healthy skepticism, has come under attack. The challenge is to make the university a place where different communities are…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Cultural Pluralism, Higher Education

Daniels, Lee A. – Change, 1991
The debate over "political correctness" in higher education policy concerning cultural diversity masks the real issue of educating people to overcome cultural fear and prejudice. Johns Hopkins University's (Maryland) Human Relations and Campus Diversity Committee is an example of an emerging campus forum for students to discuss issues of…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Committees, Cultural Pluralism

Gamson, Zelda – Change, 1991
A conversation among senior student affairs professionals concerning college cultural pluralism and "political correctness" illustrates three stages of paradigm shift in higher education, including (1) a single dominant culture, (2) multiple cultures existing alongside each other; and (3) multiple cultures retaining their identities but…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Environment, Cultural Pluralism, Developmental Stages

Wagener, Ursula; Nettles, Michael T. – Change, 1998
Constituting only 3% of U.S. institutions of higher education, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) enroll about 16% of black students in college, and award about 27% of all bachelor's degrees to African-Americans; of African-Americans earning doctorates, 35% have baccalaureate origins in HBCUs. These institutions foster student…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, College Environment, College Role

Frazier, Nancy – Change, 1977
The educational philosophy at Hampshire College is reviewed along with a report of its current status. Student and faculty independence are emphasized. (LBH)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Environment, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)

Newell, L. Jackson – Change, 1984
A recently released National Institute of Education publication about the state of U.S. undergraduate education that gives 27 suggestions for their improvement is summarized and discussed. A number of criticisms are offered, including lack of documentation. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Environment, Futures (of Society), Higher Education

Goodman, Walter – Change, 1974
The University Centers for Rational Alternatives (UCRA) constitutes lobbies for rational thought and academic freedom in the university community. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Activism, Censorship, College Environment

Baldridge, J. Victor – Change, 1973
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Campuses, College Environment, College Faculty

Yudof, Mark G.; Busch-Vishniac, Ilene J. – Change, 1996
Discussion of the Total Quality Management approach looks at elements that can and can not be applied in the university context. The approach is seen to offer a technique and justification for constantly seeking improvement, fostering willingness to change, distributing decision making, promoting positive attitudinal change, and shifting focus…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, Educational Trends, Higher Education

Ryan, Mark B. – Change, 1992
By focusing more on the educational values of community life and development of the whole student, as exemplified in the tradition of residential colleges, educators can help make the modern U.S. university more student centered, building characters and sharpening minds. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, College Students, Educational Environment