It is important for universities to examine the role they have played and are playing in national life. The author suggests the establishment of a group of interdisciplinary seminars at various universities across the country, staffed by existing faculty and postdoctoral students, and concerned with examining crucial Canadian problems. (Editor/LBH)

Academic institutions can assume responsibility not only for analyzing major social issues and ideologies but also for offering opportunities to students to experience and involve themselves in them. (Editor)

The infrequency of significant personal leadership in U.S. colleges and universities is traced to means/ends substitutions and to external distractions. As a result, administrators' attention is directed away from the purposes of their institutions. (LBH)

Focuses on the role and responsibility of providing advanced learning opportunities for rural adult learners. Outlines ways in which continuing higher education should respond to their educational needs and suggests a framework for a collaborative approach to meeting this challenge. (JOW)

The challenge ahead for higher education is not to convert the new learners to traditional learners, but to convert traditional education to a new education that will serve us all better. (Author)

Author discussed some shibboleths whose acceptance by college faculties has caused their institutions to promote change that harms the educational environment. (Author/RK)

While the world is in profound transformation in search of its unity, the universities unfortunately do not seem to understand the real situation of the rest of the world. (Author)

Downes, Wolf D. Fuhrig, J. Warren Brinkman, and John Noonan offer the four essays which make up this article, viewing law, order, attitudes, and education's contribution to effective action. (JB)

The university needs to enter into a dialog with the public on higher learning's role. (Author/PG)

A successful educational experience for the nontraditional student can be provided if a system of accountability is developed from within the institution. (Ed./HS)

The parallel between the rise and fall of feminism is seen to have some relation to the development of NAWDC and to its position on the student personnel continuum. The author concludes that deans need to redefine their roles to working with women in all areas and supporting their efforts. (Author/CG)

Institutions of higher education have offered much in the 20th Century, but failure to respond to serious societal needs has been even more prevalent. (HS)

A critical review and redefinition of the role and responsibility of the university in society are needed. (HS)

The schools must deal with the implications of nuclear power--in unbiased, concrete, clear ways. They must be in the forefront of knowledge dissemination about nuclear power. (Author/IRT)