The Federal Communications Commission requires that applicants for new broadcast licenses and for changes in existing licenses must demonstrate that they have attempted to ascertain the problems, needs, and interests of the residents of their community of license and of other areas they undertake to serve, and must propose broadcast matter…

The 16th Annual Legislative Work Conference, attended by senators and delegates from 13 states and representatives of universities, higher education associations, and state boards of education, addressed itself to such basic questions as: What kinds of institutions make up a comprehensive state system of higher education? What are the specific…

The principle underlying public higher education in the US is that while learning helps the individual, it is mostly for the benefit of the economy, society, government, and culture, and therefore society should bear most of the cost of such education. Public education is being threatened today by national and state proposals that the student be…

This report is based on the premise that the principal functions of the modern university are teaching, research, and public service. The first section of the report briefly reviews these three functions and discusses: (1) the development of relationships between the university and society, particularly as this development has occurred in the…

The theme running consistently through this speech is that the supportive services to vocational education, to be effective, must be viewed in a sociological context. Further examination of the issue is considered from a social system perspective and from the individual behavior perspective. It is concluded that no problem as complicated as the…

This investigation was designed to determine the frequency and extent of student unrest during the 1968-1969 academic year and to identify possible causal factors. The sample consisted of 382 colleges and universities which responded to a questionnaire concerned with the incidence of protest, their mode, the issues involved, the immediate…

These papers deal with the relationship between basic changes in values taking place in society and campus power conflicts. Specifically, the papers address the following questions. What are the traditional and emerging value patterns which appear to be at the root of the power conflicts? What are the public's interests in these competing value…

The Symposium on Population and Human Rights drew together 28 experts in various disciplines to formulate scientific opinion on the interrelationships between population and human rights and, more specifically, to provide inputs for the World Population Plan of Action. The symposium devoted its attention to the human rights standards which have a…

A goals-setting model for the community/junior college that would interface with the community needs assessment model was developed, using as the survey instrument the Institutional Goals Inventory (I.G.I.) developed by the Educational Testing Service. The nine steps in the model are: Establish Committee on College Goals and Identify Goals Project…

Primarily a study in the anthropology of education, the paper examines: (1) an institution charged with the task of cultural transmission, (2) the immediate sociocultural context of the school, and (3) some major sociocultural phenomena and processes both within the school and the community. This 1970 cultural transition study investigates the…

Whether community college education will successfully meet its comprehensive goals obviously depends on many factors. A vital one is the faculty and how well they support the college's mission, and if they do not, why not? Prior empirical evidence generally indicates ambivalence in faculty views. This report attempts to measure the extent of…

When six crucial problem areas--ecology, shelter, energy, food, mobility, and telecommunications--were investigated to learn whether there are technological solutions to these problems, the results were discouraging. That is, there are technological solutions to many of these problems, but in none of these fields, with the possible exception of…

The purposes of the Teacher Education Project Study at Jarvis Christian College were to investigate the relevance for small developing colleges of the new models for elementary education and to stimulate the adoption of the systems approach to institutional development in general. A 12-member Project Task Force composed of Jarvis faculty,…

This report is a product of Project Focus which was initiated as a study effort by the American Association of Junior Colleges to determine the long-range goals of the nation's community and junior colleges. Data gathered from questionnaires administered to a cross-sectional sample of students, faculty, presidents, and institutions are presented…

Some issues raised by J. K. Arrow in "Higher Education as a Filter" are discussed and clarified. The central question is Does higher education, to the extent that it acts as a filter, create new information about the abilities of students, or does it utilize known information to sort students according to their abilities? The creation of…