Underdeveloped countries will be agreeable toward externally imposed social and educational change if their relations with the country initiating the changes are good. However, if hostility toward the greater power exists, the leaders of these countries will resist any attempts to remold their societies. (CK)

Beleaguered administrators and faculty who submit to student power" as a way of defusing student unrest and an indication of educational reform are compromising their authority and the future of democratic education. (IR)

Reviews student concerns regarding participation in educational decision making, especially at graduate level. Suggests that university must change rapidly or lose confidence of those youth trying to function within established structure. (CJ)

Argues that economics-oriented poverty programs are designed to preserve the social status quo and that programs designed to alleviate poverty and end discrimination against black and female workers must attack the political basis of these problems. (JM)

Institutions of higher education have outgrown their traditional organizational structure and greater influence and personal contact must be promoted between student-faculty-administration representatives. (Editor/IR)

To combat student unrest, the academic community must facilitate the establishment of trust and confidence between youth and nonyouth. (Author/IR)

American educators in Laos should consider the values and traditions of the natives when planning a program for change. (CK)

Many students who rebel have honest grievances against their education institutions, and it is the responsibility of those who have the power to change the system to meet the needs of those who really wish to learn. (CK)

It is the writers' opinion that for the university ombudsman to be fully functioning, the parameters of his job must be quite similar to those constituted for his Scandinavian counterparts. They propose that although organizationally responsible to the president, he is accountable to the total university community. (Author)

Discusses five basic questions that colleges and universities should answer before reforming their systems of governance: "Who now decides what? Which facets of governance are sources of dissatisfaction, and for whom? What changes are being proposed, and why? How can their feasibility and desirability be assessed? What are the implications of…

Reproduction of Chapter III in The Politics of Protest: Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation, Staff Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, March 1969.

Describes two successful, institutionalized networking programs of the American Council on Education. Discusses the potential benefits and pitfalls of networking especially as they apply to women. (RC)

Contrary to David Olson's claim that authority is conveyed by textbook language, it is mainly the school context of textbooks that establishes their authority--and that of teachers--in students' minds. The curriculum is not in the text but in the social rules reflected by school organization and teachers' authority. (JW)