Responsibilities of the City University of New York (CUNY) to the following segments are discussed: the City of New York; the City's residents, the university's students and its potential students; the taxpayer; and functions integral to its autonomy as a city institution. Specific responsibilities include: meeting the City's economic and manpower…

This paper addresses the future role of the Ford Foundation in helping to improve society's capacity to resolve conflicts. Part I discusses the problem. In recent years America has had many sorts of conflicts and disputes. Examples are racial equality, energy allocation, environmental protection, consumer rights, and equal educational opportunity.…

Ideas and recommendations emerging from three regional workshops on staff development are presented. The workshops, conducted in early 1978, focused on three aspects of faculty development for inservice: the identification and and analysis of current and likely future staff development in colleges and universities whose mission in elementary and…

This paper presents a perspective on advocacy and Advocate Counseling and its relationship to institutional racism. The Advocate Counseling Model is described as a vehicle for teaching citizens to act in an assertive and affirmative manner when confronted with public and private institutional problems, including institutional racism. Legal…

A model for long-range institutional planning is presented that is based on the integration of institutional elements and functions: overall mission, quantitative goals, responsibilities, activities, and resources. A comprehensive model must also include evaluation and organization in the planning process. Each of the institutional functions and…

This policy interpretation encourages institutions of higher education to continue and expand voluntary affirmative action programs to increase their enrollment of minority groups members and to attain a diverse student body. It identifies permissible techniques to achieve these objectives consistent with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964…

This report summarizes and interprets a workshop which focuses on youth research--where it is intellectually, what it has learned over the past decade, and where it is going. In addition, practical suggestions for appropriate roles which government could play in youth research, other than simply to supply more funds, are discussed. From over 60…

In connection with plans for the publication of an annual series of reports on the "Future State of the Union," conceptual problems of such an undertaking are explored and some of the features to be included are examined. Philosophical prerequisites discussed include a model of change; a cybernetic model; some social indicators for…

The responses of USMA graduates from the Class of 1950 are compared with those of graduates from civilian colleges on a number of topics of current interest. Most of the topics dealt with many of the goals of education which are obtainable and observable only in adult life. The questionnaire that was used consisted of seven major sections:…

Joint action by academic staff, students, and business concerns in the Paris region is reported in which the attitudes and preferences toward prospective improvements in the University of Paris' Higher Economic Degree (DES) are determined. The report is in six chapters and shows the stage the investigation had reached by September 1971. Course…

The study of education in general is discussed by the first David Jacks Professor of Higher Education, followed by a review of the concept of the study of higher education. The author's own introductory course on American Higher Education at Stanford University is described, which includes criticisms of higher education, the history of higher…

This document questions the emphasis on research as the single criterion for evaluating all graduate schools and their faculties, and urges that all doctoral students spend time working outside university walls in areas related to their majors. Recommendations suggest: (1) Graduate school faculty be encouraged to take a wider view of their…

The Committee to Study Higher Education in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region was appointed to examine higher educational activities in the region, to determine the present availability of program offerings among the institutions, the enrollment patterns of the institutions, the future plans of the institutions, and to make recommendations. The…

The purpose of the conference was to bring together educational leaders, corporation executives, and spokesmen for minority groups to examine problems in higher education. The papers include: "The Urban Crisis," by Robert C. Wood, and Harriet A. Zuckerman; "Minority Groups," by Charles V. Hamilton; "The Community and the Campus," by Franklin H.…

This study of contact between the French and English language groups in Canada is based on an ecological approach, emphasizing factors such as population composition, residential patterns, occupational pressures and age and sex differences rather than cultural or psychological ones. Part 1 begins with a general discussion of the problems of…