Higher education's objectivism must allow a place for alternative modes of education that allow value judgments to be made about knowledge and experience by individual members of the academic community. (HS)

Eric Hoffer, California's longshoreman-philosopher, thinks that institutions of higher education should be graduating creative craftsmen." (HS)

The university does not need research so much as research needs the university. (Editor)

The author argues that universities, and specifically their vocational education departments, need to become far more involved in the nation's Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) efforts than they are presently. He contends that to ignore the CETA system would seriously violate the responsibilities attendant to the university's three…

Personal speculation is offered regarding the quality of administration apparent in colleges and universities. It is suggested that the real work of academe, acquiring and disseminating knowledge, is done by professors and students and that administrators today are more interested in toughness, efficiency, and prestige than knowledge. (LBH)

Focuses on the covenant into which postmodern educators must enter, mingling old and new. Outlines four passages of the author's life to illustrate educational experience: education within the family; education as an undergraduate; education as a young educator; and education in a job away from education. Discusses lessons for educators to learn…

Considers the nature of today's changing society in order to determine how writing centers can continue to be viable parts of academia. Discusses issues such as helping students integrate technology into their writing processes, and present and future demographic changes. (NH)

Teacher education must create a theory of knowledge that can analyze social fractures, social violence, and how to make psychological significance from devastation. Referring to philosophers who were concerned with relationships between teacher education and social reparation, the paper advocates for a view of teacher education that can tolerate…

What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but our opening question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge if not urgency in the contemporary age. Indeed, it could be said that our opening question has never been generally acknowledged to be a significant motivating curricular and…

CENTRALIZED PLANNING AND COORDINATION ENABLE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO MEET THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. MOST EFFORTS AT CENTRALIZED PLANNING ARE PREDICATED ON TWO CONCEPTS--MANPOWER NEEDS AND PROJECTING CURRENT TRENDS. THE CONCEPT OF MANPOWER NEEDS IS THE MORE LOGICAL, BUT IS ALSO MORE DIFFICULT TO CARRY OUT. PLANNING IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH…

International education encompasses: (1) the international content of curricula; (2) the international movement of scholars and students concerned with training and research; and (3) the arrangements engaging United States education abroad in technical assistance and educational cooperation programs. Its purposes are to liberate the mind and to…

Nations of the Middle East are sending both money and students to the United States and institutions of higher education, hard-pressed for revenues, are welcoming the opening of a new avenue of funding. But the contributions bring disputes raising questions about whether strings are attached to gifts and whether their acceptance implies support…