Three aspects of university administration are discussed: internal university structures and their interrelations, university responsibilities, and university relations with other institutions. Paper covering the university administrative systems of the United Kindgom, France, United States, Federal Republic of Germany, Latin American, and the…

This paper examines the current inability to attain certain goals in higher education, then offers a few suggestions for increases in accountability and coordination. Emphasis is placed on education's social goals, socialization of the young, changes in higher education, autonomous campus units, lack of academic objectives and priorities for the…

The hypothesis that a communication professor's consulting activities in the "real world" improve his classroom instruction is largely unprovable. Perhaps this can be attributed to the complexity of the variables involved. It is possible, however, to identify striking similarities in the role of consultant and professor. The author outlines and…

Teachers should, and would, be held accountable for learning outcomes if those outcomes were assessed on a broader base than the mere testing of students. Instruction and Professional Development of the National Education Association suggests that at least six elements (established goals, students regularly assessed, varied and individualized…

This 29-item selected annotated bibliography includes recent articles, books, and collected essays on the concept of accountability in education. There are no divisions; the documents are listed alphabetically as to author. There is no article older than December 1970. (Related document is SP 006 489.) (JA)

Accountability in teaching and learning means assuring that each student develops as near as possible to his full potential the knowledge, skills, and interpersonal behaviors that the community and the school accept as goals. Many people both in and out of the teaching profession are aware of the complex conditions required if the profession is to…

The problem of teaching industrial arts to students with special educational needs is addressed. Some of the handicaps of special education students are considered, including retardation, sight, hearing, neurological, orthopedic, and gross motor problems, learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, and multiple handicaps. The prevocational…

The author looks at a major aim of education, for which there are no standardized achievement tests. She proposes a model for teachers to work on. (Editor)

Maintains that liberal education can prepare individuals to make wise personal decisions. Points out that the study of geography can contribute to liberal education by helping students appreciate other values, evaluate evidence, communicate ideas clearly, and think analytically. (Author/DB)

The nature of personal rights and how such rights apply to an individual's right to learn are analyzed in the light of the obligations of the education system to that individual. (JD)

Success in new missions for community colleges requires a sense of legitimacy that colleges have lost in recent years, in terms of the internal and external conviction that the college's activities are necessary, worthy, and effective. (MB)

New possibilities for cultural vision and purpose can become realities only through a new radicalism: that the arts, religion and, the humanities are real sources of knowledge about the world in which we live, modes of knowing on a par with science and technology. (MJB)

The role of higher education is discussed in this essay with regard to the "new mission" of basic learning skills. It is suggested that teaching basic skills should be pressed back on the precollegiate educational units where it belongs, and that colleges must defend the idea that they are institutions for higher studies and advanced intellectual…

The scientist and the citizen are locked in mutual suspicion. Only a comprehensive program for informing and engaging the public will restore confidence in the technology of the experts. (Editor/LBH)

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)