Paper presented at the Council of Academic Societies Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2-5, 1968.

To accept accountability, the author says, educators must know the dangers involved in misapplication of the concept. They must also know how to reduce these dangers by becoming involved in the pre-planning, implementing, evaluating, and follow-up stages. (Editor)

Discusses future needs of education based on the theories of Alvin Toffler's book, "The Third Wave." Cooperative education programs provide a system for educating a workforce that is well-grounded in practical experience and that is what Third Wave employers increasingly need. (JOW)

Adult educators are faced with a dilemma which lies between the traditional design and use of the curriculum with its aims and objectives as a system of control and the natural freedom of the more highly motivated and articulate adult student/consumer. (SK)

Social studies teachers must realize that they are the key guardians of our democratic system. The level of sophistication of the social studies profession must be raised. To accomplish this, we must choose people who value scholarship and who are strong models of sociopolitical participation to become social studies teachers. (RM)

The impact of the accountability movement is examined in terms of the defensiveness which such programs have caused among educators and its emphasis on what schools cannot do rather than what they can do. (JMF)

Foreign language study has a humanistic value that should not be ignored. Foreign language study is as essential to a liberal arts education as is the study of mathematics to an education in technological and scientific fields. (HOD)

The basic skills should be taught at all levels in our schools. They should be wrapped in practicality so that the student appreciates the basic skills and realizes that they have an application in his or her future life. (JOW)

Enumerates ways in which university sociology departments can help students find out about career possibilities in the field of sociology. Suggestions include providing information on employment opportunities and graduate programs, identifying occupations of graduated sociology majors, advising students about employment and graduate school, and…

Author states the need for "...a future-focused curriculum which has at its center in every school subject the teaching of concept development, logical synthesizing, and inventive problem-solving". (Author/RW)

The issue of accountability is examined in the context of typically American attitudes toward pragmatism and quantification and power and authority. (RW)

Challenges Higgs'"ambivalent" position about the role of the university (presented in a previous article), contending that the university can still retain its character as "a community of reason" (Higgs' main argument) without abandoning its social role vis-a-vis nation building. (EV)

Argues that through effective delivery of support services, compensatory and social functioning skills workshops, and increased faculty awareness, institutions of higher education can help meet the needs of learning disabled college students. (RS)

Discusses several issues associated with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in the education community. Describes three approaches for dealing with AIDS in the school district. Asserts that students must be educated about AIDS, since a large number of youths will become susceptible to acquiring the disease. (MM)