For-profit schools constitute the fastest-growing sector of higher education institutions in the United States. Yet accompanying the phenomenal growth of these proprietary colleges and universities has been considerable controversy over the role that the profit motive should play in higher education. The literature of higher education contains…

Discussion of the attitudes of academic administrators toward academic libraries focuses on a study of 36 liberal arts colleges that was conducted to determine whether results of an earlier study that indicated negative attitudes were still valid in 1988-89. Recommendations for improving the relationship between college deans and library directors…

In recent years academic librarians have sought to partner with other organizations of higher education to establish areas of mutual interest and to work together to further these areas. Richard Ekman, as president of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), has involved librarians in various CIC programs. This past year, under Richard's…