Americans are concerned about ethical standards. The author suggests that colleges and universities have an obligation to offer courses in applied ethics. (LBH)

Undergraduate education must provide an opportunity for students to participate in research and teaching. Recommendations include: assessing student performance by teaching, research, public service, and institutional service; student conducted research of value to others; encouraging students to teach; and developing greater student familiarity…

Considers whether college campuses are the place for perpetuation of the status quo or the place to instigate societal change. (HS)

Increased availability and use of computers and computer networks in higher education are raising issues that must be addressed on campuses. A Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic Learners is proposed, outlining rights and responsibilities of both individuals and institutions, as a starting point for discussion. (MSE)

An understanding of the changing social function of the university--in its interdependent relationship with the wider society--is essential to all students of higher education. Such an understanding may be the best means of restoring confidence in the education system of the 1980s. (Author/MLW)

Author tells of her experiences as a student and how her ideals and ideas about the teaching of literature changed. (HS)

The concept of academic malpractice is discussed in terms of student gains in consumerism regarding institutional accountability, and in terms of faculty rights to academic freedom and relationships with administrators. (LBH)

Etzioni, one of the most visible of the new genre of policy researchers, is a sociologist at Columbia University who founded the Center for Policy Research in 1968 with a federal grant. He feels that policy research that does not result in policy change can never be accounted wholly successful. (LBH)

A university journalism professor explains the concept of "public journalism," a movement in support of socially constructive journalism, and by extension, the idea that scholarship and public service can be integrated in scholarly activities that benefit the larger community. (MSE)

Community is seen as a capacity for relatedness within individuals--relatedness not only to people but to events in history, to nature, to the world of ideas, and to things of the spirit. Objectivism, the dominant epistemology in higher education, is seen as anticommunal. (MLW)

Discusses how a focus on learning can change teaching and identifies five key changes to practice that come out of a focus on learning. They are changes in: (1) the balance of power; (2) the role of the teacher; (3) the responsibility for learning; (4) the function of content; and (5) the purposes and processes of evaluation. (SLD)

The tradition of humanities and liberal arts education has become culturally dysfunctional, says the chairman of the philosophy department at Ohio Wesleyan University. The historical role of liberal arts is reviewed and the current emphasis on vocationalism is discussed. (LBH)

Vassar's new president believes the college can change the face of American coeducation, but there will first have to be changes made within Vassar itself. Her social outlook and administrative abilities are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Explores the complex, highly varied work of campus lawyers, asserting that at its core, the work of the lawyer in higher education is basically risk-management work. (EV)

The federal role in education is likely to shift in the years ahead, says the Commission of Education, and so may the social functions of many institutions of higher learning. Discussed are federal goals, access to education, core curricula, federal aid and intervention, and governmental decision-making. (LBH)