Higher education should prepare students to cope with a world where change is the only constant. Speech given at NASPA Conference, Kansas City, April 4, 1978. (Author)

Education has moved into the mainstream of state politics. The future quality of the public schools may well depend on how accurately educators perceive and how effectively they participate in the political arena. (Author/IRT)

Discusses a study designed to determine if audience responses are in line with expectations developed from a rhetorical criticism of campaign messages. (MH)

Reports on a study of people's perceptions of the way in which their voting choices, and those of others, were influenced by media editorial endorsements of candidates. (GW)

Discusses changes in attitudes and values in Indonesia in response to the marked social change experienced since independence from the Dutch. The delicate balance between modernism and traditionalism is assessed. Journal available from American-Asian Education Exchange, Inc., 88 Morningside Drive, New York, New York 10027. (Author/DB)

This article contends that an urban ethnic community is capable of developing coinciding spatial and sociocultural boundaries. This correspondence will be strengthened when the leaders of the ethnic community perceive that demographic concentration is politically advantageous. The case of the Sikh population of Vancouver supports this contention.…

Though black artists now enjoy more public visibility than before, their position in society is still less than one of full equality and acceptance. (GC)

This is the complete text of President Carter's speech concerning the black community. Here he presents the programs, goals, and objectives the Carter Administration has in mind for black Americans. (Author/AM)

Testing hypotheses in which the level of urbanization of countries and economic subregions of the South were related to their plantation and/or their political economic character, it was found that neither the political economic nor the plantation theory offered a sound explanation of the rurality of the South. (Author/JC)

This study randomly sampled the students of three universities to determine whether or not enrollment in a specific academic discipline affected students' political attitudes, particularly their trust in government. Results show that for each college year there was an increased gap between the trust levels of students majoring in different…

Analyzes the nature and extent of the increasing interest in educational policy studies. The author recommends that joint enterprises of educational philosophy and policy (1) enlist the resources of the sociology of knowledge and (2) question the policies which educational theorists generate. For journal availability, see SO 505 716. (Author/DB)

A discussion of Haitian immigration to Quebec concludes with the statement that in the conditions created by capitalism, there is a place for a struggle which will articulate within both politics and economics, the social claims of Haitians and Quebecois. (Author/PR)

Among the purposes of this paper is the goal of describing, further developing, and clarifying the influence structure and decision-making process variables of K-12 political systems at the state level. (Author/IRT)

Describes Australia's retirement income arrangements, including age pension, private pensions, changes in provisions by the federal government, and factors that shaped changes. Notes that difficulties experienced by the government in introducing changes underscore political sensitivity of retirement income policy in Australia. (Author/NB)