Provides a brief summary of the overall recommendations, and quotations from passages salient to adult education. (EB)

In 1918, just one year before the founding of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Thorstein Veblin wrote, "In one shape or another, this problem of adjustment, reconciliation or compromise between the needs of higher learning and the demands of the business enterprise is forever present in the deliberations of the university…

Geographic concepts are central to environmental education and place geographers in a position to coordinate environmental education. Geographers are admonished to assume that responsibility as they carry out their roles as educators. (JH)

No other social institution has been so consistently on the frontiers of innovation and change as American business and industry. The ramifications of the resulting technological developments for the educational system need to be examined. Knowledge is a "two-edged sword"--equally powerful for good or bad. Rapid technological development and the…

Historically, higher education has been an institution charged with the moral development of youth. Moral problems in this country have resulted from a failure to respond to this need. Schools should provide formal instruction in ethics and morality, and faculty members and schools should demonstrate ethics in their conduct. (SW)

Considers whether college campuses are the place for perpetuation of the status quo or the place to instigate societal change. (HS)

Author believes that all members of English Departments, as well as those who teach methods courses, should be thoroughly grounded in linguistics. (MB)

Article's title was the topic for a session at the 1972 conference of the Association for Higher Education, for which it was originally prepared. (Author/CB)

Asserts that in South Africa, political and economic discourse has to a large extent perceived the social role of the university in terms of nation building. Suggests instead that the basis for the university's service to society lies in its character as a community of reason. (EV)

Canadian universities and colleges are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse. Two major social forces have contributed to this change: immigration and increasing enrolment of international students. Minority and international students bring their values, language, culture and educational background to our campuses, to add to and enrich our…