Papers from the 1979 Conference of University Administrators are presented. Current problems in higher education in the United States and Canada and the concept of professionalism as applied to university administration were addressed. Contents are as follows: introductory paper: "Professional Associations: The Off-Campus Organizations of…

A growing proportion of the producers of American belles-lettres belong to the academic guild. The private patrons of writers of earlier periods have few counterparts today, and colleges and universities have taken over and enlarged the function they performed: to give writers both the wherewithal for living and a habitat, thus performing a haven…

This paper (1) develops a framework for analyzing various futures for the school, college, and department of education (SCDE) community in knowledge production and utilization (KPU), and federal interventions which might affect those futures; (2) reviews critical KPU-related characteristics of SCDEs which would affect the success or failure of…

The major goals of the Partnership for Rural Improvement (PRI) are to explore models for rural development and planning and to engage institutions of higher learning in progressively greater collaboration in delivering services to rural areas. Knowledge of rural planning in a PRI area exists at three scales: planner-educator-facilitators, local…

This manual is based upon a study of 247 old people and their families and five long-term care facilities in New York City. The data indicate that what families do for their aged kin in institutions makes a difference to the older person, and that the ability of families to maintain contact with their institutionalized relative depends, in part,…

Modern marketing concepts and techniques are described as offering problem-solving and explanatory directions to the study of colleges and universities. In application to the administration of higher education, marketing is defined as an approach or philosophy of management and planning based on the conviction that those institutions that survive…

Secondary and higher education have at least who things in common with respect to career education. Assuming that students' career preparation is minimal, both must strive to compensate for this deficiency, and both levels sorely need faculty and staff inservice. At the secondary level alone there is a need to look at every student as having a…

State governments need to be more innovative in providing various public services. Greatly increased state investment in public universities has strengthened university capabilities in many disciplines and research programs related to problems facing governments. But the real problems are involved in a university's efforts to provide more…

The Commission on Academic Governance was charged by the president of the University of Victoria with the responsibility of making recommendations concerning the governance of the university for the immediate future. Suggestions were made for a number of organizational changes. The duties and responsibilities were set down from all persons…

A historical review of higher education is offered, with mention made of particular individual contributors in the field. The significance of the historical continuum is related to the function of post-secondary education. It is suggested that colleges and universities perform many functions for society, including educating students, investigating…

The American public school is a political idea, as well as an educational institution, that is still awaiting full realization. Public schools fail to deliver the promised indiscriminate availability of educational goods and services. Discussions of that failure frequently revolve around the school's educational agenda and questions of pedagogy…

This report is the third of a 3-volume study on the role of college-community relationships in higher education. This report presents the findings of a community survey in Washington, D.C., the purpose of which was to obtain information about the community's perception and expectations regarding Federal City College. Seven groups were included in…

Institutions of higher education in Appalachia need to examine their role as the primary leaders of educational change in terms of solving the educational problems of the region. The uniqueness of the Appalachian region (which might be characterized as a closed system), coupled with identifiable regional needs, should be conducive to a recognition…

In the second of a series of statewide seminars sponsored by the Wisconsin Area Planning and Development Consortium Committee, 46 persons representing 23 institutions, agencies and commissions met to discuss the role of the state's colleges and universities in community and area resource development. The specific objectives of the meeting were:…

In the next decade, the American campus will be under constant pressure from minorities, industry, welfare departments and hospitals to help improve urban life. These pressures will be so great that the university's only alternative to lack of commitment will be the discovery of a new "American" concept of education, such as the creation of an…