Points out that (1) there is no reason to believe that media coverage of the "political correctness" issue is firmly anchored in social reality; (2) the news media's approach reflects and reinforces a longer-term shift in the ways journalists cover the university; and (3) if coverage of political correctness has been misinformed and…

Discusses the political issues involved in institutionalizing continuing education. Addresses (1) the political nature of institutions, (2) how continuing education fits into the campus environment, (3) political role of the dean of continuing education, (4) assessing the politics of continuing higher education, and (5) coping strategies. (CH)

Outlines the national charges of "Goals 2000" and the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills regarding the expansion of communication instruction requirements. Sees speech communication professionals well positioned to meet these externally generated broad-based goals. (SR)

Advocates the use of wide-area networking systems (WANS) by English departments to bring the whole world's public discourse into classrooms. Maintains English departments need people who speak the language of networking technology to understand how it can support or defeat pedagogical goals, and to garner computing resources. Offers a brief…

Outlines the long history and the dangers of doublespeak--language that misleads, distorts, and deceives. Offers examples of doublespeak in euphemisms, "gobbledygook," and inflated language. Argues that doublespeak is carefully constructed to appear to communicate when its real purpose is to mislead, and notes its relationship to…

While colleges and universities have often become just another special-interest group using contemporary techniques and encountering common problems in dealing with state legislators, the central interest remains the allocation of adequate resources for the institutions. (MSE)

The merging of psychoanalysis with other disciplines is explored. Focus is on political psychology, psychohistory, psychogeography, and psychological anthropology. Controversies and criticisms associated with these interdisciplinary approaches are also discussed. (JMD)

For more than 13 years, hard times in mathematics (particularly related to funding) went unremarked by mathematicians. One reason noted is that mathematicians have not been politically astute. However, the situation is changing. Reasons for this change are discussed. (JN)

Argues that an understanding of developments in the 1890s (when disparate strands were brought together as one discipline--English--along with a movement toward uniform standards) can inform responses to current movements and initiatives. Outlines 5 significant initiatives that came to the author's attention during his editorship of "English…

In the last 25 years, 80 to 100 chairs or institutes focusing on the study of capitalism have been established on college campuses, sometimes facing criticism because of potential conflict with the institution's mission. (MSE)

Middle-class moderates had begun to adopt the confrontational tactics of student protesters when the ruling party in South Korea made dramatic concessions to opposition demands for direct presidential elections. It indicates that politics is beginning to bow to societal conditions. (MLW)

Higher education must tell legislatures how the state should raise the money the colleges want to spend--even if it means higher taxes--and then lobby on behalf of those proposals. This also means addressing new and potentially controversial issues about the role of colleges in state politics. (MLW)

A survey designed to evaluate the importance of some components of cultural transmission on a variety of traits showed that religion and politics are mostly determined in the family, a mode of transmission which guarantees high evolutionary stability and maintenance of high variation between and within groups. (Author/JN)

Reviews six key findings surrounding current graduate education. Concludes that there are not necessarily too many doctorates, but there are too many doctorates trained to be university professors. Notes the transformation of the master's degree over the past two decades and its widespread success in perceived relevancy for students and society.…

A review of the 1983 attempt to close the Department of Adult Education at the University of Southampton illuminates the debates over the nature of adult education, the end of political consensus about educational policy, and the demise of the "Great Tradition" of university liberal education in the process of mainstreaming extramural…