Describes a Governor's Honors Program designed to provide students of high ability challenging and enriching educational opportunities. (Author/RK)

A discussion of two decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court relating to a nontenured teacher's legal rights, especially those rights related to contract renewal. (Author/DN)

Suggests that a reestablishment of separate school systems is reoccurring in the deep south. (JF)

The academic, believing himself appointed to reshape society, now finds society has no wish to be reshaped and regards him as one cause of social distress. (Editor/IR)

While many problems still face women in the academic world, more equal status and opportunities are in sight. (Editor)

Four aspects of the university that are essential to its effective functioning. (Editor)

Article based on a lecture given before a student symposium at the University of Hawaii, Spring, 1969.

Supreme Court opinion is reviewed on a case that involved the Island Trees Union Free School District (New York) board of education's decision to remove 10 books from school libraries. The court did not reach a majority decision. Various justices' views on students' rights, censorship, and school board authority are discussed. (PP)

An experimental program in jury grading of freshman composition at Arkansas State University, abandoned after charges of racial bias and infringement on academic freedom, is described and evaluated based on comparison of jury grades and standardized test scores. The consensus of instructors is that the method was objective and consistent. (MSE)

Some of the New Right's criticisms of our education system, particularly those relating to sex and values education, reflect legitimate discontent in the wider population. School officials should be prepared to explain and defend their choice of curriculum materials; the best support for the public schools is an informed public. (Author/GC)

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression, association, and religion, none of which may be circumscribed by any government arm, including higher education, except under narrowest conditions. Private institutions are not accountable to the First Amendment, but similar prohibitions may be imposed as a condition for receipt of government…

Describes five learning activities designed to teach secondary students about the right of the public to know and the right of privacy. The activities will help teacher to extract information from Kubek's article and bring it to American history, government, sociology, or journalism classes. (AM)

Focuses on administrators, particularly those at the University of California at Berkeley, and the rhetoric they used in response to student protest. Outlines the major lines of argument that administrators traditionally use and concludes that administrative rhetoric, as genre, is an undemocratic response to protest. (PD)

Any relationships that develop between academia and industry must not allow secrecy or any impediment to the free exchange of knowledge among faculty members, must not diminish the commitment of faculty members to their colleagues, and must not inhibit the freedom of inquiry of the faculty. (MLW)