If the urban, independent university is to survive, it must recognize the impending enrollment decline and emphasize academic excellence and programs that are rooted in the urban community. (IRT)

This paper discusses the development of a doctoral program specializing in community college leadership. When Morgan State University (Maryland) expanded its existing Urban Educational Leadership Doctoral Program to include a concentration in Urban Community College Leadership, it became the first historically black university in the United States…

A defense of the Open Admissions policy of the City University of New York, initiated in the Fall of 1970, against several of its critics. (JM)

Teaching experiences in an experimental college where students are members of ethnic minority groups and parents have low socioeconomic backgrounds. (HS)

Urban land-grant colleges should be established to bring minority groups into the college-trained work force. (IR)

Describes the faculty service and development center at Saint Peter's College and the career training institute division of Hudson County Community College, both in New Jersey. (HOD)

Concerns a study of student attrition on the urban campus and how this attrition rate can be reduced. Attempts are made to identify the dropouts, why they are dropping out, and a description of a program for reducing dropouts. (Author)

This article addresses criticisms that U.S. colleges and universities have lost their moral and civic purposes. It suggests that a major problem is the fragmentation resulting from higher education's organization into departments. A University of Pennsylvania project to revitalize an urban Philadelphia neighborhood is described as an example of…

Investigates the effectiveness of a local systemic change grant on 5th grade urban African American students' attitudes toward science. Measures students' attitudes by using the modified Attitude Toward Science Inventory (mATSI). Indicates a significant main effect for the program and for school but not for gender. Examines school characteristics…

The second volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers. An edited translation of the 2009 volume of the Chinese-language "Blue Book of…

Described is the Urban Science Intern Teaching Project (USITP) at California State College, Fullerton, aimed at converting unemployed scientists and engineers into inner-city science teachers. (PEB)

At the 1972 annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, a group of communication students and scholars met to discuss what their departments are designed to accomplish. The purpose of this Action Caucus was to develop a model mission statement for communication departments located in urban settings. Three conclusions are warranted from…

This monograph is primarily for faculty members and administrators in colleges and universities, as well as intern directors in noneducational institutions to assist them in formulating judgments about the design and implementation of internship programs. The paper focuses on the objectives of internship programs, role allocation, and issues and…

This document presents the report of a project designed to examine the relationship of higher education to urban society and to develop purposes and programs that the churches, community groups, institutions of higher education, and other organizations may pursue so that higher education in its various forms can be more responsive to the critical…