The English version of a Polish journal on higher education is presented. Included are 19 articles on the problems and experiences of these institutions, three articles on teacher's workshops, and three review articles. Titles and authors include: "Polish Science in 1973-1986" (Benon Miskiewicz); "The Humanism of the Contemporary University: The Contribution to the Establishment of a New Cultural Order" (Bogdan Suchodolski); "Institutions of Higher Education and Economic and Social Crisis" (Jan Szczepanski); "Higher Education in the Forty Years of People's Poland" (J. Kluczynski); "Research and Teaching the Academy of Social Sciences" (Jarema Maciszewski); "The Contribution of the Humanistic Sciences to the Shaping of Social Attitudes in People's Poland" (Jozef Andrzej Gierowski); "University: Problems and Experiences" (Grzegorz L. Seidler); "Selection of the Content of Higher Education an Outline of the Criteria Governing the Choice" (Czeslaw Kupisiewicz); "The University Teacher: Professional Ethos and Educational Model" (Jan Legowicz); "A Teacher's Duty" (Witold Benedyktowicz); "Some Factors of the Quality of Education" (Zofia Kietlinska); "The Contemporary Technological University" (Janusz Tymowski); "Open University in Poland: Assumptions and Prospects" (Janusz Gorski); and "Preconditions of Educational Effectiveness in Higher Education" (Kazimierz Jaskot). (SW)