The sheltering of artists in the university has not provided the stimulation found in the entrepreneurial city. Yet, the artists can not go back to the old piece work financing that characterized city life. The crisis for the arts and humanities is not a crisis of higher education but of culture. (JH)

The passive state of higher education must be changed by active reconsideration of the old model of the university. Some considerations might be an orientation toward older students and interrupted schooling, reviewing the civic and "elitist" vs. "democratic" functions of higher education, the importance of teaching as opposed to research, and the…

The turmoil of student activism in the sixties produced some steps forward such as student participation in decision-making bodies in the university, and some steps backward, such as the loss of confidence in the university as an institution and as a place providing guidance and support. (JH)

Factors that shaped institutions's responses to campus agitation about Vietnam, discrimination, and poverty include: a loss of institutional credibility, of will, and of power to act prerogatively. (JH)

Successful outcomes of the immediate past must not overshadow four challenges in the future for the university -- the demand for equal education; the demand for public accountability; political and military nationalism combined with cultural pluralism; and limited resources for food, fuel, and space. (JH)

If the knowledge elites of the university community recognize their elite status, means for dealing with the demands of the counter-elites, the minorities, that are asking for a place in the university will be found. (JH)

Both the support of inquiry in education and the character of university attention to the problems of school are two reasons for the attitude in research and policy studies which restricts scholarly approaches to social scientific inquiry. (Author/KM)

A review of writing on the immediate past of the university reveals several errors: envisioning the future as an extension of the present; seeing university students as homogenous group representative of American life; confusing the scene of action, the university, with the agents; omitting the role of nonrationality; and lacking objectivity. (JH)

The relationship between public authority and the college and universities is examined. The impact of more government authority upon cost, diversity, and creativity in higher education is emphasized. (DE)

The relationship between the colleges and universities and the federal government is examined. Emphasis is placed on the universities independently developing their strategies for institutional evaluation without the aid of the federal government. (DE)

The author discusses declining importance of enrollment in private colleges and universities. Growing government control is seen as the reason for this decline in importance of private institutions. A campaign for individuality and pluralism in higher education is emphasized. (DE)

The author discusses his ultimate goal for higher education. Higher education should nurture and sustain a universal world community within the framework of pluralistic societies. Ways to achieve this goal are described. (DE)

Still valid today, the 85 "Theses" from the 1971 Assembly on University Goals and Governance opened with an emphasis on equality of higher educational opportunity. Emphases in the future should also include diversity and differentiation of institutions, comprehensive curricular reform, and absolute commitment to lifetime learning. (JH)

The author discusses the relationship between higher education and the federal government over the last two decades. Emphasis is placed on higher education taking a more active role in the shaping of national educational policy. (DE)

The relationship between colleges and universities and the federal government is examined. The author suggests that public funding should continue but the funds should be used for teaching and learning rather than government oriented research. (DE)