Academic research institutions have long been important economic anchors for New York City. They provide thousands of jobs and serve as a magnet for talented students and faculty, who inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy through federal research grants. Yet, even though New York's concentration of top-fight scientific…

This report provides an evaluation of the implementation of the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSLP) and the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to provide educational loans to postsecondary students and their families. The report recommends that ED: (1) ensure that FDSLP…

The profession of adult education provides many excellent opportunities to enhance global understanding. One way for adult educators to become involved in international activities is through the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). As a federation of adult education organizations that are organized in seven regions throughout the…

The residential environment which universities establish should reinforce the values which are advocated by institutional goals and mission statements. It follows that students who live in residence should feel a sense of self-worth and self-efficacy relative to these goals and values. This study investigated the relationship between specific…

A controversy at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York State over that institution's involvement with classified research for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) raised issues regarding classified research and institutional leadership. In 1991 M. Richard Rose, then president of RIT, took a 4-month sabbatical to work for the…

In terms of the need to take special populations and special groups into account, the author suggests for educators and employees a framework including specific definitions of critical terms, statements of mutual rights and responsibilities, open debate and analysis of values, and organizational mechanisms to reduce the exercise of adversary…

The author asserts that if our young people are to have opportunities to develop their many talents and if our colleges and universities are to attract and hold the ablest students and faculty, then some provision for honors learning is essential. He proposes that institutions promote honors programs, a step toward educational quality. (Editor/JT)

The author analyzes the problems of state agency and institutional interaction in efforts for statewide coordination of colleges and universities. He discusses institutional autonomy, government involvement, accountability, and national pressures, concluding that some conflict can be constructive in producing a system of checks and blances. (JT)

The present and historical role of the University Grants Committee (UGC) in Britain are analyzed with the conclusion that the organization, which was originally thought of as a buffer to protect universities from interference by Government, is by its scale and mode of operation now indistinguishable from a department of state. (JT)

The variety of approaches to environmental education are discussed from the standpoint of the environmental education student (the non-science student, the environmentalist, the interdisciplinary approach, the generalist, and the graduate) and from the standpoint of the university (the degree, faculty, courses, and program orientation). (JT)

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol discusses a series of speeches by the Minister of State designed to initiate a "great debate" about British universities. Issues include "more graduates in desirable subjects for less money," manpower planning, the right balance between universities and polytechnics,…

Reports a study of state budgeting for higher education that reveals some reasons for the gap between theoretical concepts of productivity improvement and state and institutional practices. Includes discussion of state-level implementation of productivity concepts, constraints on institutional decision makers, and problems in the application of…

Contends that the application of principles and analytical techniques of economics shows higher education to be generally more productive than other private and public enterprises. Suggests how institutions that exploit productive opportunities, which increase the value of student-embodied abilities to create and produce, will survive and prosper.…

Reports and discusses evaluation of a teaching techniques workshop for structural engineering lecturers designed to implement goals of Chilean university reform. Student and teacher course evaluations showed clear gains in student participation but not in the linking of teaching to national problems. (JT)