This paper is an exploration into the multiple levels and dimensions of the familiar reactions to former mental patients. A form of the Incomplete Sentence Blank Test (ISB) is presented as an instrument to reach beyond the unidimensional restrictions of standard measures, which tend to ask respondents about abstract, hypothetical implications and…

A report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale appointed by the president to examine the condition of free expression, peaceful dissent, mutual respect and tolerance at Yale and to draft recommendations for maintenance of those principles. (JT)

The consumer movement seeks a better balance between institutional rights and those of the student who contracts for educational services. The author discusses how and why issues of consumer rights--to be safe, to be informed, to choose, and to be heard--are now unexpectedly confronting higher education. (Editor/JT)

To liberate individuals and free colleges to do what they do best the author proposes that each person receive a fixed sum of $10,000 on his eighteenth birthday or upon graduation from high school to be drawn through increased take-home pay, or used for further education, or for financial investment. (JT)

This article presents findings concerning the relationship between schools and psychotherapeutic agencies in a suburban community of the northeastern United States. Significant questions concerning the deviant defining institutions in American society, their relation to adolescents, and the social network created by their interdependence are…

A workshop of the Association of African Universities redefined the African university as a community of essentially African scholars committed to serve knowledge to its community and liberate the common man. The university's role in relation to the government and objectives for staff development and research development was formulated. (SW)

Trustees should ask certain questions that will bring them closer to the attitude and approach of accreditation. These might include: What does this institution expect its graduates to know? How do we evaluate success? Processes of accreditation, which focus on education quality and institutional integrity can be applied. (Author/LBH)

The role of the university in the development process must be dealt with in an environment of widespread great poverty characteristic of the larger part of the developing world. Focuses on development policy and the satisfaction of human basic needs as the highest priority for the university. (Author/RK)

The history of universities in Africa south of the Sahara, excluding the Republic of South Africa, is very recent, the great majority being started within the last thirty years. This situation has both advantages and disadvantages, since the universities have drawn from the rich heritage of older European and American universities but, in doing…

Presents conclusions by participants of the symposium on the role of universities in national development held by NUFFIC last fall. (RK)

A professor of education talks about the meaning of career education, its objectives and philosophy, and the role of vocational-technical training at the career preparation stage. (MF)

The school as a social institution reflects the attitude of society as a whole when it labels and stereotypes black children, assuming that their achievement level will be lower than that of their white peers. (JD)

A professor of management looks at university management development programs and finds that, despite increasing enrollments in management seminars, both the organizations purchasing the educational services and the universities selling them are often dissatisfied. He offers suggestions for improving management development programs. (MF)

To compare diversity among institutions, the Stanford Project on Academic Governance established a typology with eight broad categories. These categories vary systematically on many features: environmental relations, professional task, and institutional complexity. They reflect diverse organizational features and different professional autonomy…

The real intention of liberal education is the development of right intellectual reasoning about human experience, of which justice is the result. (MSE)