The role of higher education is discussed in this essay with regard to the "new mission" of basic learning skills. It is suggested that teaching basic skills should be pressed back on the precollegiate educational units where it belongs, and that colleges must defend the idea that they are institutions for higher studies and advanced intellectual…

It is important for universities to examine the role they have played and are playing in national life. The author suggests the establishment of a group of interdisciplinary seminars at various universities across the country, staffed by existing faculty and postdoctoral students, and concerned with examining crucial Canadian problems. (Editor/LBH)

Academic institutions can assume responsibility not only for analyzing major social issues and ideologies but also for offering opportunities to students to experience and involve themselves in them. (Editor)

Leading scientists and humanitarians were asked questions regarding the intellectual split between their Two Cultures (see C. P. Snow). Positive efforts in the integration of the sciences and humanities were described in education news media, and national programs. A call was made for the development of a Third Culture--social science. (CS)

The university needs to enter into a dialog with the public on higher learning's role. (Author/PG)

Discusses the changing work ethic and the role of the public schools, the junior colleges, and the four-year colleges in educating adults for careers. (Author/SP)

Institutions of higher education have offered much in the 20th Century, but failure to respond to serious societal needs has been even more prevalent. (HS)

A critical review and redefinition of the role and responsibility of the university in society are needed. (HS)

This charter explains what is being done to promote high standards of service for all who use technical colleges in the new further education (FE) sector in England--students, employers, and other members of the local community. It sets out the standards one has a right to expect from colleges in the FE sector and other organizations involved in…

This topical paper is a record of the events leading to the creation of a statewide system of publicly supported comprehensive community colleges for Virginia. Commission and legislative reports are reviewed, as are contributions made by influential state legislators, educational leaders, and outside consultants. The plan finally enacted provided…

The role of the institution of higher education in inservice teacher education is examined. (JD)

Efforts to protect students' consumer rights may encounter difficulty because of the heavy burdens now being placed on colleges and universities. Five ways that the concept of consumerism breaks down the educational setting are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Discusses the survival of colleges and universities as dependent on public support. (PG)

The future of the "liberating institution" is addressed. The university should obligate itself to develop new disciplines of knowledge that reflect the need to relate knowledge to virtue and to relate the new consciousness of equality to knowledge. (LBH)