The purpose of this book is to bring back to public attention seven thinkers who wrote about what they believed to be vital in higher education. Each chapter examines a particularly "key text," in which that thinker considers the nature of higher education. The background for the occasion of the delivery of that text as a speech or…

This collection presents 11 essays which consider a new framework for organizing, understanding, and sanctioning the future community college. In part 1, the following articles argue for an expanded collegiate identity: "The Presence of Access and the Pursuit of Achievement," by Richard C. Richardson, Jr.; "Urban Community Colleges and a…

The mission of Anchorage Community College is to reach out to the community to identify needs and anticipate trends so that, in cooperation with other agencies, it can enable the growth of individuals and the strengthening of the community by providing flexible, supportive, visible, and accessible comprehensive life-long learning opportunities.…

This is a report of a conference devoted to the establishment of short- and long-range goals to assert the rights of the college in its community and to determine corresponding responsibilities. Two basic concerns prompting the conference were: (1) the rapid change in the composition of the student body accompanied by changing needs; and (2) the…

A survey of the nature of values with a brief examination of the problem of relativism precedes a discussion of intellectual and moral values education as an appropriate responsibility for higher education. Higher education's opportunity to serve the needs of democratic society with its moral dilemmas is also demonstrated. (JMD)

If we continue to educate too narrowly, too technically, too reductively, or continue to ignore a student's character, the skills and values of adaptability, and the contextuality of survival problems, then our college deserve not to survive as liberally educating institutions. (Author)

The burden on education today is to put people of all ages to work and to insure that the quality of life for persons of all ages is improved and made more productive in the years ahead. Discusses the community college role in reaching those objectives. (Author/RK)

Recognizes universities encounter difficulties responding to human resource needs. Indicates meeting human resource challenges requires university coordination with other agencies, proper allocation of resources, and recognition of the role of liberal arts in the education of highly qualified workers. Concludes that university response should…

Conflicts between cognitive and affective functions of education are addressed, and it is suggested that colleges must promote the dynamics of learning and teaching, the involvement of students in the intellectual, emotional, and valuing activities that are a part of all liberal education. (LBH)

Problems faced by the female single parent in her private life and in her life as a university student are explored. Practical solutions to some of these problems are discussed, and suggestions made as to how the university may be more supportive to these students. (Author)

Urges community colleges to reexamine their responsibilities to meet the financial, information, counseling, and curriculum needs of foreign students, and lists several elements in ensuring that this growing constituency receives a quality educational experience. (RC)

Warns that sound management theory and practice are in danger of becoming isolated from the academic process and care must be taken to include an informed and flexible concept of academic process with managerial skills. Relates management to the meaning of general education, commitment to academic standards, and delineation of institutional…

The urban university is a citizen of the city and should hold itself to high standards of civic commitment. However, such citizenship should not deter it from its traditional roles of asking questions, seeking knowledge, teaching, and conducting research. There is no inherent inconsistency between these functions and urban citizenship. (MSE)

Community colleges, in a quest for increased enrollments and expanded educational access, seem less concerned with quality than they were 15 years ago. This is evidenced by the move toward open enrollments, reduced academic requirements, promotion of sporadic course-taking patterns, and vocational, as opposed to general, education. Adjustments…