Higher education in the United States is facing a period of uncertainty, confusion, conflict, and potential change, and it has little to guide it in its past experiences. For most of its three and one-third century history, it has had a manifest destiny and through the period from 1820-1870 was marked by rapid change and some student unrest. Two…

This issue of the Ohio State Law Journal is devoted to a symposium on the role of professional education in the contemporary university. The first paper: "The Place of Professional Education in the Life of the University," by Edward H. Levi argues for the need for more professional training in the undergraduate years. The second paper: "The…

Focusing on the Institute's role in environmental affairs, the challenges facing the Institute, and the importance of its current activities and programs as they relate to the environment, an Environmental Issues Seminar was conducted by the Institute of Agriculture, University of Minnesota on September 16-17, 1971. This publication contains the…

The kinds of impact a consortium might have on the operations of its member institutions are presented following an overview of the consortium's challenge to institutional autonomy. Ten attitudinal forms of consortium impact challenging autonomy include: (1) the rest are going ahead so do it anyway, (2) infiltration and multiple loyalities of…

This document lists Muskingum Area Technical College's (MATC) institutional goals and objectives for 1976-77. MATC uses a management by objectives (MBO) approach in order to direct the efforts of its personnel toward completion of measurable objectives leading to achievement of its institutional goals, which are derived from the philosophy and…

Operational similarities are examined with respect to the transfer of management science techniques from the private business sector to the university community. The author's conclusion, supported by a study by the Academy for Educational Development, is that the differences in social purposes, contributions, and management processes are more…

The author examines how peoples' identification of their real selves either through feelings or actions is changing from an institutional focus to an impulse focus. (Author/DE)

Teacher training institutions should give attention not only to the academic and philosophic preparation of teachers but to the human realities of today's classrooms and the interpersonal skills needed by teachers. (SJL)

A study was conducted at Indiana University, Bloomington, to determine whether student perceptions of university goals were related to field of study and class standing. Explanations are offered to account for the tendency of freshmen to perceive university goals more readily. (SW)

Describes some new programs within existing universities in Southeast Asian countries that are helping to meet developmental needs, and stresses, along with the need for international university cooperation, the need for regional institutional cooperation. (RK)

Women have played an active role in the development of modern American physical education since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century. Factors which have influenced the course of women's physical education are discussed in this article. Recent biographical, institutional, and social research on the subject is reviewed. (Author/GC)

Fifteen common themes are presented, drawn from major studies into the reform of secondary education. (MJB)

The author describes the functioning of a model juvenile training school established for poor and deviant girls in the nineteenth century. (GW)

The director of a residential center for the mentally retarded criticizes empty rhetoric about normalization, deinstitutionalization, and the least restrictive environment. (CL)

Three authors present current controversies over the welfare of the mentally retarded in discussions of the plight and future of institutions. (Author)