We argue that academic life is increasingly giving way to forces of industrialization and that many of the problems confronting higher education arise within this transformation. We discuss how a culture of standardization has led to academic monocultures; how faculty autonomy has been subverted by topdown management structures; how locally based…

This series of six dialogues televised in the St. Louis metropolitan area is designed to sensitize the general public to the needs of democracy and education within the framework of the Bicentennial. Participants in the dialogues include nationally prominent persons; local experts on education, humanism, and history; business people; and…