Over the past few years the University of Virginia has become a first-rate academic institution. (Author)

Financial problems are causing many university presses to close down their publication of scholarly books and articles. (HS)

The digital age beckons land-grant universities to serve K-12 education, as it did past industries, by helping develop and mold the dynamic workforce needed to keep pace with an increasingly technological world. Examines: the focus on K-12 education; creating digital intermediaries to support a new land-grant imperative; and recreating the…

Describes the problems involved in merging Federal City College (FCC), District of Columbia Teachers College (DCTC), and Washington Technical Institute (WTI) into the University of the District of Columbia (DCU) by September 1976. Background of the three public institutions and legislation by the 93rd Congress mandating the consolidation are…

With the rejuvenation and expansion of state universities through the Morrill Act, the primary objective was to use public higher education as a preparation for work. Land-grant emphases that should be continued and revived are identified, including agriculture, engineering and applied science, education for work and service to the state. (MLW)

Two years have passed since the Press of Case Western Reserve University closed, but the disagreement hasn't yet settled. There is still sharp disagreement over whether the university's decision to terminate the press was warranted. (Author/PG)

When foundations reduce their support to a field, they generally offer brief explanations for their actions, citing a record of past achievement, a new constellation of social needs, and a consequent reconfiguration of priorities. Other rationales for the foundations' recent rift with higher education include friction between foundation agendas…

The question in a growing number of colleges is not what curricular changes ought to be made but what must be done to survive institutionally and individually. (Author)

The deans of all professional schools in the U.S. that are accredited and university-affiliated were asked to name the schools within their professions they considered best. The rankings are presented along with some significant additional data on professional schools. (Editor)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is going to announce a major change in its patent policies that will allow qualifying institutions to be guaranteed in advance the royalties from faculty inventions that result from NSF projects. (Author)

Reviews the changes in students and in general outlook at Yale Law School in the past years. (PG)

The author describes the past and present developments of Southern Illinois University. (PG)

Why is it so hard for colleges and universities to change? Why do even innovative institutions that invest considerable time and effort in attempts to improve performance often fall back into long-established patterns? Why is the whole of educational innovation often less than the sum of the parts? Consider three colleges and universities.…

Maharishi International University, a 4-year liberal arts college with a student body of under 500, is a university dedicated to the propagation of transcendental meditation. (Author/PG)