New College, a private institution in Florida that focused on independent study, has now become an upper-division college of the University of South Florida. The author discusses the administrative and financial difficulties of New College in relating its history. (PG)

Higher education in the United States today has not only lost its favored status in terms of public and private support, but has lost, in definitions of mission and in individual institutions as a whole, even minimally agreed-upon definitions of mission and of assessment of students. (Author)

Observations about academic reform movements against a background of Erich Fromm's philosophies on human relationships and behavior. (Editor)