In this collection of ten papers, information and ideas are presented on the roles of university adult educators as change agents in urban America. The first paper places certain issues of urban extension and change in a historical and sociological perspective. Another paper urges stronger ties between nonprofessional and professional workers in…

The president of an independent university asks why, in the face of a decline in the private educational sector in the United States, this sector cannot be left unmonitored but well supported in order to make its contribution to American society. His answer, or argument, is twofold. First, the tide appears to be running against the private sector…

This report examines the varying degrees of controversy and conflict experienced by two cities when they attempted to desegregate their public schools. Using these experiences as examples, the report shows how education boards can implement desegregation plans to avoid community controversy. The author stresses that issues basic to avoiding…

Based on a study of black-oriented broadcasting conducted in 1970, the purpose of this report is to discern and elucidate, rather than measure conclusively, the dynamics of its "success," emphasizing the potential of such stations to have a positive social impact on their communities. Fourteen black-oriented stations were visited, 30 license…

This paper examines (1) attempts at educational reform in Venezuela and Colombia by means of decentralization, and (2) the impact of decentralization on two contrasting educational systems. In Venezuela, the national school system was highly centralized with even routine decisions being made in Caracas, which resulted in a rigid, unresponsive…

This initial segment of a three-part study (Communication and Student Unrest) is an examination of the various communication channels--informal and formal, vertical and horizontal--which exist for student-administration and student-faculty interaction. Student-administration and student-faculty communication channels are discussed separately, and…

The historical independence of expert power and opinion leadership research and theorizing is noted, with the major credit for the separateness being attributed to differences in methodological approach usually taken in the two areas of research. A theoretical attempt to relate the two areas is make by relating: (1) the general areas of social…

Two papers comprise this document: "Alternatives to Collective Bargaining" and "Collective Bargaining in Two-Year Colleges: Problems and Trends." The first paper, by Joseph N. Hankin, presents the thesis that there is no alternative to collective bargaining but that attention should be focused instead on who represents the faculty on which issues.…

The author discusses ways that parents and teachers behave that cause children to feel inferior and powerless. He proposes a "liberation for children" that will free children from this superiority-inferiority role. Speech presented at the Convention of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers, Charleston, South Carolina, 1975. (EJT)

Several aspects of the academic environment infringe on the entrepreneurial spirit: administrators who are sole products of academe; inability to implement strategies that optimize efficiency; staff fragmentation; constituents with opposing viewpoints; reward system that values inaction; and a belief that change is the mandate of the faculty, not…

"Falling Apart," a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, indicates that America practices internal colonialism and continues to subject Blacks to "semislavery." The North American slavery system is traced from 1650, and it is shown how characteristics of that system have continued to the present. (PS)

Patterns and trends in the type, selection, qualifications, and authority of upper-level university administrators in European countries are reviewed. A tendency toward the North American model of an institutional administrator specializing in a particular aspect of administration and assisted by a specialized staff of second-level administrators…

The acrimonious disagreement over investment in South Africa is one sign of the collapse of the consensus on the role of a trustee. Some critics hold that trustees are not definers of the institution's good but merely the instruments by which the public's view of that good is carried out. (MLW)

Criticizes James S. Kaminsky's position that a 1970 memo by A. W. Jones, then South Australian Director General of Education--which prescribed administrative decentralization in the region's school systems--brought about the democratization of those systems. (MCG)

Rebuts Alan Smithson's critiques of the author's prior position that a 1970 memo by A. W. Jones, then South Australian Director General of Education--which prescribed administrative decentralization in the region's school systems--brought about the democratization of those systems. (MCG)