Community is seen as a capacity for relatedness within individuals--relatedness not only to people but to events in history, to nature, to the world of ideas, and to things of the spirit. Objectivism, the dominant epistemology in higher education, is seen as anticommunal. (MLW)

The current, conventional approach to research does little to strengthen scholars' participation in civic life. However, models of research that promote more democratic inquiry methods, more reciprocal relationships between researchers and their subjects, and new collaborations between research institutions and communities are emerging and being…

The growth in information technology will bring to higher education hybrid forms of teaching and learning, a blurring of boundaries, different literacies, and changes in the way knowledge is constructed. Comparisons between the print and digital culture are made for the parameters of knowledge, teaching, collaboration, publication/authority,…

This article argues that if higher education pursues the new norms of scholarship proposed by Ernest Boyer in "Scholarship Reconsidered," a new kind of action research is required that would conflict with the epistemology of the existing research university. An illustration of this kind of research is offered, and the epistemological,…

Higher education's response to crisis must focus on developing institutions' competitive advantage. Technology is the basis on which institutional renewal must occur. American higher education is not using technology intelligently because it is driven by teaching, not learning. Today's technology fundamentally changes the relationship between…

Offers notes and anecdotes concerning an article on the "New York Times Book Review," marginally useful research, Denis Diderot and politics, peer review of journal articles, loss of valuable literary criticism manuscripts, social sciences education, great mathematician Paul Erdos, quality of political judgment, and creation education.…

The president emeritus of the University of California proposes that some aspects of the ethics of the academic profession are disintegrating slowly and that mutual trust within the community is eroding. Political and financial influences are seen to be largely responsible for this decline. (MSE)

Two alternative paradigms for undergraduate education are compared; one holds teaching as its purpose, the other learning. The natures of the two paradigms are examined on the following dimensions: mission and purposes, criteria for success, teaching and learning structures, underlying learning theory, concepts of productivity and methods of…