The author sees higher education as a battleground between prevailing meritocracy and forces of egalitarianism in "what is at best a competition and at worst a conflict. Focuses on the "growing contradiction of the guiding principles behind educational endeavor, weights the charges of the adversaries, and suggests the possible outcome. (Author)

The Peterborough, New Hampshire Public Library closed during after school hours to dramatize the need for a more suitable place for young people to meet. The result was a temporary, then permanent, recreation center supported by the town. (JS)

Sporadic investigations of university crises will not save higher education. Institutional research must become the catalyst of our philosophical as well as our methodological approach to the university. Address delivered at Annual Forum of Association for Institutional Research, May 5, 1969, Chicago, Illinois. (Author/AD)

Statement of Desirable Conditions and Standards for Maximum Effectiveness of the College Administrator," adopted at annual meeting by student personnel administrators. (IR)

Guidelines are offered to curb the competition between research and academic education. (HS)

Taken from address given at fifty-seventh annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors in Philadelphia, April 16, 1971. (IR)

A critical review and redefinition of the role and responsibility of the university in society are needed. (HS)

How the psychological principles underlying educational programs help shape national character and how they relate to structuring innovations. (Editor)

In order to improve the quality of health care, medical colleges and universities and government must work together. (HS)

Folk highschools in Finland are state assisted boarding schools whose functions are to provide instruction in the humanities, socio-economic and natural sciences. Object of this study was to investigate the expectations directed to their teachers by the students. (RB)

The role of the teacher has broadened to that of an instructional leader who provides the impetus for quality education. (DM)

Foster care, in family or group home, has proved a workable alternative to traditional institutional care for retarded children. Role of child welfare agencies is discussed. This paper was presented at the National Conference on Social Welfare at New York in 1969. (Author/NH)

Examines the concept of community development and its implications for various sectors of the education service. (DM)

Describes a number of styles prevalent today among college and university presidents and reasons for their success or failure. (Editor)

Institutional and geographical decentralisations of higher education and research in Norway have mainly taken place during the last 10-15 years and represent a break with the past policy in this field. In many respects both decentralisations have turned out to be conflict-ridden processes. (BRR)