Positive and negative influences of contract research on graduate education are reviewed, with time restrictions noted as a significant difference between contract and grant-supported research. Specific conditions are cited, which, if met, can ensure beneficial effects for graduate study. (LBH)

Discusses the growing field of continuing professional education, including who the providers are and how they currently interact. Providers are (1) higher education, (2) professional associations, (3) employers, and (4) independent providers. Suggests research on outcomes of collaboration. (CH)

Discusses aspects of a professional studio acting program at the university level. (PD)

Some of the risk management procedures for use with liability loss exposures, specifically in the context of higher education, are conceptualized and described. Liability insurance--its coverage and market--is discussed and sample policy provisions are appended. (LBH)

According to possibilism, the unfolding story of human evolution is in part a question of what we ourselves dream and will. (MM)

The obstacles to change are analyzed, with some hints for surmounting them. Topics covered include: nontraditional studies, legal restraints, education vouchers, administrative organization, and the middle college concept. (LBH)

Currently, sex education covers the mechanics of reproduction; details of venereal disease, and birth control information. This paper argues that this field should be augmented by the inclusion of the emotionally enriching, interpersonal, and sociocultural elements of human sexuality. A fundamentally Freudian sketch of sexual development is…

Article considers the policy of decentralization in Israel and the problems of implementation. (RK)

The success of an institution in recruiting students is directly related to how well it projects its own uniqueness. (GB)

Discusses ways the private school can best be a true community resource. (GB)

The changing functions of the British university, that of a service organization, a business organization, a commonweal organization and a mutual-benefit organization, has made competing demands on the resources available to higher education institutions. (Author/PG)

To retain the public understanding and support, higher education must openly disclose its operation, continue a flow of information, set out clear and identifiable goals and objectives, and change with the times. (Author/PG)

Professional narrowness and philosophical inexactness only will encourage the arthritic and mortification process that has beset education. (Author)

Author feels that educators should work to oppose censorship or at the very least work to assure that any textbooks or curriculum changes are, as much as possible, in accord with sound learning theory and teaching method. (GB)