A sarcastic essay outlines ways in which the college faculty member can avoid carrying out committee service responsibly. (MSE)

Author recommends that a labor-management relationship between faculty and administration would be more honest than the vagaries of the current relationship based on democratic pluralism. (HS)

A university journalism professor explains the concept of "public journalism," a movement in support of socially constructive journalism, and by extension, the idea that scholarship and public service can be integrated in scholarly activities that benefit the larger community. (MSE)

With higher education now undergoing fundamental changes, it is time to consider a new system of faculty roles with distinctive pathways that allow teachers to pursue what they do best (teaching, research, or professional service). Faculty members would choose an area of emphasis for a specific duration and retain the option to continue on that…

Five faculty members were interviewed about the impact of campus assessment activities on their roles and responsibilities. Three areas of concern were students (what they need to know and what can be expected of them); teaching (how classroom methods follow from higher expectations of students); and faculty roles and responsibilities. (MLW)

The "Yeshiva debate" over the nature of faculty governance will continue to rage within academe. Unions will argue that faculties must bargain collectively with or without the protection of NLRB legislation; small private colleges may submit that they cannot afford bargaining costs and refuse to bargain. (MSE)

Four elements that exercise a perverse influence on academic managerial behavior are identified: lack of objectives and performance criteria, collegiality and shared governance, disdain for administration, and productivity in academe. Three steps necessary to reconcile good management with subcultural values are identified. (MLW)

The relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency and the academic world became evident to the author during a 1974 convention of the American Historical Association, at which he found that academic studies could be legwork for policies implemented by the CIA's operational branch. (LBH)

Analysis of data on faculty workload, time expenditures, and pay support the idea that the college faculty reward system tends to emphasize the discreteness, not the mutuality, of teaching and research. Most institutions expect faculty to make conscious choices between those activities rather than assume that one reinforces the other. (MSE)

One key to the understanding of the current style and character of American educational practice and purpose lies in the history of the professions--the growth of the professionalized specialists who define modern society. (MLW)

It is proposed that cooperative learning and collaborative learning are related but essentially different processes, developed for educating people of different ages, experiences, and levels of interdependence and based on distinctive assumptions about the nature and authority of knowledge. Moreover, cooperative learning may undercut collaborative…

It is proposed that, in the near future, universities will undergo a major transformation, similar to but much more complex than those in the nineteenth century; and a new, deeper conception of scholarship is needed. The transformed scholarship would be multicultural in nature and would integrate facts and values. (MSE)

The commonly cited prescription for improving higher education, increasing the time faculty spends teaching, could lead to an impoverished learning environment because it ignores the rich learning opportunities afforded by the full complement of faculty life, which integrates teaching, research, and service. The traditional approach reflects…

Radical changes in academe as a result of the Cultural Revolution, many of which are still felt on Chinese campuses, and the desire to rebuild the scholarly structure are discussed. (MSE)

A discussion of the emerging uses of technology in the college classroom looks at current impact, new directions, and challenges. It looks at which educational problems seem responsive to technological innovation, faculty role, organizational arrangements that facilitate adoption and maximize impact, and costs. (MSE)