An understanding of the changing social function of the university--in its interdependent relationship with the wider society--is essential to all students of higher education. Such an understanding may be the best means of restoring confidence in the education system of the 1980s. (Author/MLW)

A program that upgrades career education at the university level. (Editor)

The author believes colleges are meeting their first responsibility when they demand that students develop their basic mental capacities to the fullest. (Author/PG)

Proposes educational centralization to offset post-Vietnam public disaffection from universities. Considers the solution of the basic skills problem on all levels, broader attention to energy research, sensible evaluation of public expectations of technology, and the exportation of U.S. knowledge as essential tasks in resisting the fragmentation…

Explores what happens to knowledge in corporate universities operating as knowledge producers in a knowledge economy, asserting that current discussions about higher education forget that the university functions as a custodian of knowledge. Uses principles of the Enlightenment to show that the knowledge needed to maintain the knowledge system…

In a society that doesn't always live up to its ideals, how can we encourage college students to live publicly involved, culturally aware lives? This article proposes offering students an extensive education in the "democratic arts" through learning communities; community-based learning; diversity education; interdisciplinary studies and general…

The historical lack of involvement by large universities in the social problems of the communities in which they reside has reached a critical stage. No other institution, in terms of human resources and facilities, is better equipped to come to grips with community problems than our urban universities. Private urban universities can no longer…

The results of this study reveal that predominantly white institutions are not responding in a meaningful and coherent way to the needs of black students. The impression many may have of a high national level of response to the needs of black students is based on the apparent rather than the real. While there are some few institutions that have…

Educators' views seemingly converge on the point that education should further the intellectual and physical growth of the student. The means by which this should be accomplished, however, is the point of contention. This paper surveys some of the more recent empirical studies treating growth and maturity in college students, and cites certain key…

Women have been traditionally discriminated against and have been brainwashed to overlook this discrimination by the society in which we live. However, more and more women are becoming discontent with their traditional roles as wife, mother, and housekeeper, and are demanding their full and equal rights as persons. The university has an important…

Changing society and public expectation of educational improvement make it important that colleges of education broaden the scope of their teacher education programs. (JD)

Public service programs must be natural by-products of research and teaching if universities are not to degenerate into omnibus social service organizations. Universities must maintain institutional integrity in teaching citizens to think creatively, act humanely, and use their freedom of both ideas and action. (Editor/LBH)

Discusses the fact that American higher education is an elitist system based on hierarchical selective admissions. (MLH)

Evaluated the different constraints that are threatening the development of educational policies necessary to keep higher education functioning in a fluid manner. (RK)