Education is a derived right of Americans. An organized process which aims to impart specified knowledge and skills, education is the only way in which learning opportunities, which are the right of Americans, can be ensured. (CJB)

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…

In the early sixties, Norman Burns published this article in the Quarterly, giving his views of how higher education would change in the immediate future. That future is now past, and many of his predictions are facts; but many of his worries remain and still require application of the wisdom he set down. (Editor/RK)

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)

In a discussion of the history and function of institutional research, the field is described as a continually evolving part of the higher education community. The author cautions that the tendency to emphasize the compilation of raw data at the expense of data analysis must be checked, as institutional research coordinates with planning efforts.…

For over fifty years, speaker after speaker ? university presidents, business leaders, Presidents of the United States ? have praised our system of higher education as the finest in the world,but even as we bask in the afterglow of past achievements a starker reality is emerging on the horizon. For the first time in decades the United States no…

Founder of a "deschooled" school, Mrs. Davis sees no future for colleges unless they are dismantled and a new form of learning permitted to exist. (Editor)

The university must become the intellectual "Main Street of the World" to educate the multifaceted man of the future. (Editor)

The interrelationships of morality, sanity and responsibility are sensitively sketched in their bearings on undergraduate education. (Editor)

Educators must equip students to cope with a diversity of experiences and changes in our world. (IR)

Decries higher education's failure to teach students to write effectively and think coherently. Charges universities with the abandonment of writing instruction. Feels that the current emphases on classroom technology, management techniques, and gamesmanship serve to distract from the real job of education. (DMM)

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)

Refutes arguments against the teaching of technical writing by English teachers. Shows how the training of English teachers prepares them for technical writing instruction. (JT)

Analyzes the impact of black studies on the self-concept and achievement of black students. No statistical evidence was found to justify the existence and continuance of black studies programs in their present state. (Author/DB)