Maharishi International University, a 4-year liberal arts college with a student body of under 500, is a university dedicated to the propagation of transcendental meditation. (Author/PG)

There has been a growing but begrudging recognition that better teacher education is necessary both to carry out other education-related reforms and to provide knowledge for shaping the reform agenda. Without fundamental changes in the ways that teachers teach, changes will not occur in the learning outcomes of a particular lesson or class or…

Discusses the Academic Conference held each year at Southern Methodist University to implement innovations into the university structure. (PG)

Describes the experiences of the University of Cincinnati in working to improve the urban situation in Cincinnati. (Editor/PG)

The three functions of the undergraduate college relate to careers, values, and general education, and the willingness of most independent colleges to provide these services will determine their survival. (Author/PG)

A survey of faculty development activities reveals more plans than programs, but examples from several institutions illustrate how programs can be implemented. (Editor)

Operative goals are viewed as a function of the various "constraints" that affect the university, with special attention given to the environment-organization interface. Eight major constraints on university goals are identified and briefly discussed. Two general methods of identifying operative goals are suggested. (Editor/PG)

The modern functional structure of the university is found in teaching, research, and extension work. Through this structure the university role in society is to provide its resources, students, with a full opportunity for self-actualization so that each person may achieve self-fulfillment. (DS)

Calls on educational leaders to restore to colleges and universities the concern for integrity, morality, commitment, and national interest to the end that these institutions will produce trained persons who are capable of leadership. (Editor/PG)

Paper presented at joint meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (November, 1968)

The major thesis of this paper is that the intense political activism observed on some campuses is not pervasive and is representative of only a small proportion of college students in the US; and that the great majority of students today largely manifest the apathy and conformity that have characterized students in the past, rather than the kind…

Aspects of statewide planning are discussed from the viewpoint of an institutional administrator, a systemwide administrator, and a legislator. The institutional perspective encompasses the tri-state system and enlightened authority. The system viewpoint emphasizes the presidential stance and the legislative perspective and reviews the need for…

Twenty-two working papers presented at a graduate seminar in continuing education at Michigan State University during the Spring term of 1970 are compiled in this publication. The chief purpose of the publication, which is considered a "by-product" of the seminar, is to provide the seminar participants with the means by which to recall insights…

This report briefly discusses the development of a survey instrument that will be used for an impact study of Wisconsin State University at River Falls. The questionnaire will be sent to 9,000 living graduates for whom addresses are available. Two books relevant to the study are briefly summarized. Both are entitled "They Went to…