Outlines the challenge to both government monopoly and community participation posed by the rise of local private stations in Italy. Local broadcasters represent democratic participation and a new vehicle of political, social, and cultural growth.

The effects on universities of different kinds of accountability mechanisms are examined, and ways are suggested in which higher education institutions can discharge their obligations to society while preserving their intellectual and fiscal integrity. (Author/LBH)

A university philosophy department chairman considers some of the elements of the faculty union movement and argues that the autonomy ("the rule of autonomous reason") of the professoriate is necessary to avoid a greater loss of academic freedom than collective bargaining might gain. (MF)

Independent colleges and universities are becoming more inclined toward a highly centralized source of support--the federal government--subjecting themselves to an influential leveling medium. Federal support then begins the process of molding institutions into a collective or tribal state and the private identity gives way to sameness. (LBH)

The independents have performed a historic function in establishing institutional independence, suggests this university president, and they will continue, under their independent boards, to guard the principle. They save taxpayer money and will continue to do so even though a margin of state aid is necessary. (Author/LBH)

Views school reorganization as best achieved through school-based management, featuring transformational leaders, school effectiveness teams, school strategic plans, school-site budgeting, and school performance reports. Describes a Dallas County (Texas) district's efforts to create a mission, review organizational structure, and adopt strategic…

Australian higher education has experienced considerable controversy over issues of academic freedom in its history, but the equilibrium reached in the 1960s and 1970s is now threatened by a trend toward private ownership and participation in institutional matters and the threat to institutional and faculty autonomy that accompanies it. (MSE)

The University of Montpelier I's 1969 statutes permitting maximum autonomy for the faculties of law and economics, medicine, and pharmacology resulted in a well-established division between the university's constituent parts and an unwillingness to pool resources to effect savings. (MSE)

The relationship between the national government and the universities in Switzerland is outlined. It is suggested that the state should acknowledge universities as the best judges of many educational issues, and should establish laws that merely outline university responsibilities. (MSE)

Discusses effects of British methods of resource allocation to the colonial universities on the methods used by the successor states, primarily for Ghana and Nigeria, in terms of the national governments' announced intentions and beliefs. Concludes that although the West African systems are similar to the British system, they are very much local…

This paper examines the complexity and ambiguity of policies that purport to promote deregulation and decentralization of education. The paper describes the development of decentralization/deregulation policies in the Netherlands and applies the specific dilemmas faced in the country to the unexpected difficulty in preparing and passing a…

To capture some of the benefits of small-scale schooling, educators are looking for ways to downsize, including dividing large schools into subunits or "schools within a school." This approach establishes within the school a smaller educational unit with a separate educational program and its own staff, students, and budget. This digest…

The thesis of this discussion is that a vital system of universities and colleges comes forth and endures when it achieves and maintains a balance between institutional and academic autonomy and societal relevance. (Author)

After a comparison of institutional autonomy and government influence patterns in Australian and United States higher education institutions, it is concluded that variety in balances is possible and does exist. These balances can be altered to suit state needs and also free independent institutions for their own purposes. (MSE)

Since individual urban parochial schools have the local autonomy necessary to implement organizational change, they may be better able to benefit from renewal than urban public schools. (JD)