This report studies the transactional style of organizational processes which emphasizes the interaction of both role expectations and requirements of the institution, and of need-dispositions of the individual. This paper uses the Ford Training and Placement Program as a specific means of illustrating: (1) the reasons for adopting a transactional…

This speech, given at the commencement convocation at Bishop's College concerns black institutions and the black renaissance in America. Following brief opening remarks the author elaborates on the black experience in America, and the attempts of higher education institutions to assimilate blacks into the "white" society in the past. Minority…

This paper presents three views on the University of Pittsburgh campus expansion: from a university representative, from a city planner, and from a community leader. Three salient points made by the authors indicate: (1) The University's main concern was with the development of its own physical plant; community development was a peripheral…

This report presents conclusions of exploratory research conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for the Joint Council on Economic Education. The report explains that 52 New Jersey high school social science teachers participated in discussions designed to determine how economics and political science were being presented in the schools, to…

This report discusses the role of the community college and proposes policies for future development. It presents new projections of enrollment in 2-year institutions of higher education on a state-by-state basis to 1980 and on a national basis to the year 2000, as well as estimates of needs for additional community colleges by 1980. The report…

The value systems of faculty at three junior colleges in California (each representing an urban, rural, or suburban character) are compared, and the institutional personality of each college is described in terms of the perceptions held by its instructors. The specific purposes of this study are to: (1) identify the values held by 238 staff…

This document contains several papers that were prepared for the 65th annual meeting of the Carnegie Foundation in November 1970. The first paper, "European Universities as Partisans" by Fritz Machlup, traces the slow development of the principle of the nonpartisan and doctrinally uncommitted university as a proper shield of individual academic…

Science and Technology research plans formulated for the Siberian Department of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences are analyzed in this article to illustrate the tasks of scholars, workers, and engineering and technical personnel in the fulfillment of the 24th party congress resolutions The hypothesis of developing Siberia and the Far East up to the…

This case study reviews the conversion of a State Teachers College that became a State College and ultimately was converted to a Liberal Arts institution. Changes are discussed according to administrative personnel, faculty, administrator role, curriculum, policy and procedures, institutional organization, and educational models. (MJM)

This report describes results of the second year of a three-year extension of an Office of Education-funded program to prepare teachers and teacher aides to work with exceptional children in the regular classrooms. Emphasis was placed on three major areas: the training of teachers and aides, community involvement and institutional change, and the…

Various efforts of the University of California at San Diego to systematize and develop useful evaluation formulas for verifying income through use of Federal Income Tax Returns are reviewed. It is recommended that 100 percent collection and analysis of tax returns by the national scholarship services would maximize economy and confidentiality.…

Three options are discussed for institutional responses to pressures from clients (students), competitors, taxpayers, citizen activists, and faculty: (1) to concentrate on the preservation of traditional values; (2) to maximize growth in new markets; or (3) to seek a new educational synthesis. (JT)

A Southern Regional Education Board workshop has identified and discussed ten areas (including environmental concerns, long-range planning and growth policies, and energy issues) in which the interdisciplinary resources of colleges and universities can be brought to bear for mutual benefit. (Editor/JT)

Argues that an education system based primarily on economic motivations tends to aggravate the disparities between the haves and the have-nots in the world and than an economic analysis of higher education fails to consider the contribution to the personal lives of people and their lives as citizens. (Editor/JT)

Offers a general rationale for the stubborn conservatism of the liberal arts faculties based on the idea that the true function of a liberal arts college is not to equip students for success in life, as measured by the dominant values of our society, but to move them to challenge those values. (Editor/JT)