The author has lived in Japan over twenty-five years, teaching in higher education for more than twenty. He observes that it has been alarming to see the inroads of ideological activism in the academic community in Japan, which is having unfortunate effects on the curricula of many schools, including his own, Hokusei Gakuen University. In this…

The enormous changes that took place on American campuses during the 1960s not only opened those campuses to new constituencies and new ideas, but also created a powerful conservative movement that sought to reverse those changes. Along with the rising cost of higher education, the right's campaign against the academic reforms of the sixties has…

Political activism cannot be explained in terms of the socio-economic characteristics of the participants; rather, demonstrators can best be distinguished in terms of their alienation from the political system, i.e., their lack of confidence in it. (Author)

Even if the Vietnam War ends, the student revolt will go on as "the dominant instrument of social change rooted in history, a power base on campus, and recruiting ground among students and ghetto youth. (Author)

This study is an attempt to develop a picture of student activists who can be considered prerevolutionaries and whose attitudes revolve to a great extent around their idealism. Speculations about the radicalization process are also discussed. (Author/MB)

The crisis on American campuses is blamed on the self-destructiveness of the higher education community." (Editor/IR)

Discusses student unrest in colleges and universities and emphasizes the role of the honors program. Proposes solutions to problems delineated. (IR)

The political attitudes and beliefs of Black students who attended a Black southern university during the 1963 demonstrations provide the data for this study of the long-range consequences of the Black student protest movement in the 1960s. (Author/JLF)

Four general hypotheses concerning the sources of university students' political attitudes are presented and evaluated in this paper. A cross-sectional survey of American male Harvard University graduate students was conducted with a questionnaire dealing with attitudes toward United States involvement in Vietnam. Responses were analyzed by…

The sources of student discontent are the major concern of this paper. (DM)

Analyzes constructive measures instituted by English administrators to handle or prevent disruption. (Editor)

Having studied students' attitudes in relation to an April, 1969 incident, the impact of students' belief systems on perception of what had occured during the previous month, and on changing attitudes during the incident are illustrated. Collective behavior theories are also discussed. (Author/DB)

The history of the first major student revolt in American colleges, which came at the turn of the nineteenth century, is reported in this book. The question of why upper class, Federalist, and socially conservative students became rioters is examined. The rioters are portrayed as a postrevolutionary generation--the Sons of the Founders--who wanted…