The study sought to provide an understanding of the quality assurance challenges and opportunities faced by private universities in Zimbabwe. The study analyzed the factors determining provision of quality higher education in private universities and the resultant effects of failing to achieve the minimum acceptable standards. The author employed…

The fundamental asset of a university is its faculty. Without faculty working with students, the university is just a set of buildings. The faculty design and teach the courses, keep the educational program updated, and work with students to help them gain the skills and knowledge they need to prepare for their careers or professional education.…

Discusses five issues affecting education in the United Kingdom--financial constraints, reduction in the number of students, accountability and participation, concern for standards, and changes in social patterns. (Author/IRT)

Identifies 20 of the major issues and problems facing the community college. Elaborates on areas such as student values, standards of excellence, public opinion regarding education, recruitment of handicapped, minority, and female students, female faculty, and the financial situation. (TP)

Outlines the double standards in policies and practices that have accompanied the growth of intercollegiate football. (IR)

Black colleges were founded, amid hostility and with few resources, first in the North in the antebellum period, and then in the South in the Reconstruction period. Money has always been a problem. Recently Black colleges have been threatened by trends toward dismantling separate education of Blacks and Whites. (Author/MC)

Can institutions of higher education continue the tradition of open access and quality instruction as financial resources become increasingly scarce, or must they choose between educational opportunity and quality? The way these problems are handled within the University of Wisconsin System are discussed. (Author/LBH)

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the sports-governing body for over 500 small colleges and universities, will weigh a series of major alterations in rules and procedures concerning standards for freshman athletes, separate competition divisions in all sports, an accreditation system for monitoring academic standards,…

The view of higher education as a privilege, rather than a right, did not die with open admissions in the City University system. Rather, under pressures of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, this view has regained its ascendancy as socially advantaged groups struggle to maintain their position. (Author/GC)

The author examines selected problems in higher education by presenting them as a series of dilemmas: intellectualism versus vocationalism; egalitarianism versus quality; the economy of the country versus the economy of the college; and government control versus university autonomy. (Author/SJL)

A three-year study on the impact of admitting underprepared community college students on academic standards is reviewed, along with implications for postsecondary education. In summarizing factors contributing to a reduced emphasis on critical literacy at the community college, attention was directed to changes in institutional characteristics…

Urges community colleges to reaffirm their commitment to quality education in the midst of declining enrollments and budgets. Looks at quality considerations related to mission, the collegiate function in career programs, image and reputation, educational needs, long-range planning, cutbacks, and academic standards. (AYC)

Reacting to the preceding article by Professor William H. Howick (pp11-18), the author examines these same problems in higher education and cites reasons to hope for improvement. (SJL)

Unless educators engage in thorough planning, in making the most efficient use of economic resources, and in interpreting to the public why education deserves high priority, public education is in for a long period of gradual decline. The central thrust of the current administrative era is the management of decline, or decremental planning. The…

Meharry Medical College, a predominantly Black institution, is tackling financial and academic problems that have plagued it in recent years. Meharry has received city approval of a plan to share teaching facilities with Vanderbilt University at the city's publicly owned hospital. (MLW)