Discusses the ideal of unity in diversity in the pursuit of salvation, as presented in the "Bhagavad Gita", an ideal that is no longer supported by the present social reality in which Indian universities operate, where protest and rebellion have resulted. (Author/PG)

By improving communications between high school and college, between parent and college, and between candidate and college, higher education institutions can improve their image and also make it easier and more enjoyable for students to experience college. (PG)

Presents changes necessary to make the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program run more effectively: discontinuing the use of separate applications and allowing the institution the ultimate control over awarding the grant. (Author/PG)

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 new technologies are being forced within the old organizational structures in education, but those structures cannot accommodate the sophisticated systems needed to realize present goals. Substantial changes in organization are demanded which promote a stronger integrity in instructional systems and permit personnel growth by the accretion of…

The first of five papers written by the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Planning Council's Deinstitutionalization Task Force Project, this document focuses on the role of institutional services. Following a brief summary of planning principles (least restrictive alternative, right to services, normalization, equal justice, respect for human…

An interview with President Wilson H. Elkins of the University of Maryland, discussing such topics as public education, the role of major universities, career education, educational finance, and higher educations problems in the future. (PG)

Describes the broad role of public relations in institutions of higher education; the need for a public relations leadership; the responsibility of colleges and universities to their publics; and prospects for achieving this kind of communication. (Author/PG)

Describes a methodology for allocating limited research funds to individual research proposals through the use of a goal-programming approach. Presents an example using hypothetical data, which illustrates the use of the model, particularly its sensitivity to different priority weighting schemes. (Author/JG)

The author describes the various approaches of identifying personnel capable of conducting training sessions. (JB)

Australia's "strange confusion in tertiary education" is discussed with regard to the difficulty of defining distinctions between universities and colleges of advanced education (CAE's), diplomas and degrees. The author proposes that all tertiary institutions be called universities and all degrees and diplomas abolished and replaced by…

Established by Congressional Act in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is charged with a variety of responsibilities in the areas of education, research, applications of research, data gathering, and information dissemination. The foundation is governed by an appointed director and a national board and is primarily funded by the federal…

This paper argues that, contrary to the views of several contemporary observers, American higher education is not becoming more homogeneous but more diverse. Higher educational institutions vary widely in their organizational structures, purposes and goals, and governance patterns. In order to compare these diverse institutions systematically, the…

This paper comments on the public function of teaching research at the University of Halle in the eighteenth century. It is argued that the mercantilist conception of the university's function helps to clarify the Prussian bureaucracy's policy toward the administration of its universities during the three decades before the onset of the reform…