This report focuses on the history and development of community college functions. The continuing education, community service, and adult education functions have shown significant progress over the past 40 years. (CA)

The author describes a two-year experience of mobilizing attention around values questions at The University of Michigan. He identifies issues important to consider in attempting to raise consciousness about values questions on a large university setting. (Author)

Vassar's new president believes the college can change the face of American coeducation, but there will first have to be changes made within Vassar itself. Her social outlook and administrative abilities are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Specialization has been emphasized at the expense of generalization. Focus in this address is on how liberal learning can accommodate the twin necessities of educating specialists and educating generalists, or of producing experts who are not merely technicians. (Editor/LBH)

If society wants knowledgeable citizens who happen to value and to need a profession or some way to make a living, then for that society liberal education still has a vital function. The restoration of the humanities to a central position in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Florida is described. (Author/LBH)

Just as the mission of a community college cannot be implemented without liberal education, neither can the missions of AAC be successful without community college involvement and participation. An increasing number of college students seeking baccalaureate degrees are beginning their college education in community colleges. (Author/LBH)

Specific social responsibilities of the college teacher in India are discussed with regard to his social position, his commitment to research, his representation of the intelligentia, and his obligations to youth and the community as a whole. (LBH)

AIDS education is seen as the moral and ethical obligation of colleges and to be effective it must be aimed at changing behavior and repeated in different formats. The more effective the program, the more controversial it might be, because effective programs admit that there's explorational behavior by students. (MLW)

Four priorities are identified: (1) acknowledge that access to education can be no guarantee of individual success; (2) improve the quality of instruction; (3) respond effectively to the diversity among individual learners; and (4) preserve the integrity and vitality of institutions of learning. (LBH)

A strenuous challenge is made on the grounds of public policy to the justification of a state university college whose central program is close to the traditional pattern of liberal arts education. It is contended that the State University system of New York should look to the City University as a model rather than move in a more exclusive…

In an effort to relate higher education more effectively to the modern world and to instill in it a greater degree of social responsibility, alternative models for liberal education are suggested that use new knowledge and disciplines and address social and environmental opportunities, along with economic, political and international issues, and…

Describes socializing roles performed by American colleges after 1700, when the family shed its traditional role due to geographical mobility, cultural and political squabbles, religious declension, and family reorientation. (Author/DB)

The president of the Carnegie Corporation offers recommendations to Washington and explores the need for federal leadership and state responsibility, the new hostility to public universities, and the role of business. (LBH)