Hurricane Katrina took more than 1,500 lives. Most of those people died in their homes because they could not escape, or they died trying to escape the flood waters. The hurricane submerged 80 percent of the parish, a land mass seven times the size of Manhattan. The flood lasted for fifty-seven days and destroyed over 160,000 homes and apartments.…

Describes an approach to planning and the academic planner that is used at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. (Author/PG)

To prepare students for today's society, a new liberal education combining technology with the humanities and social sciences is needed. (HS)

Autonomy, authority and accountability are 3 aspects in higher education that will influence the future functions and operating characteristics of colleges and universities. (Author)

A presentation of the main factors contributing to change in higher education and a proposed response to this. (HS)

Outlines aspects of the apparatus which should function on campus in the effective allocation of both rewards and punishments in the shaping of faculty achievements as well as the resolution of faculty grievances, that is, academic due process. (Author/KE)

Liberal arts education is more important today than ever before as a means of preparing young people to meet the problems of the future. (Author/HS)

Describes the planning and implementation of a cooperative program in higher education involving Milliken University and the Community College of Decatur in Illinois. (Editor/PG)

The major dilemma in educational planning today is not an inability to analyze nor a lack of cost analysis data but an inability to use this data for decision making. (Author/KE)

Built on innovative practices discovered at all types of institutions, the "Greater Expectations" report describes a "New Academy" committed to college access for all those who desire a postsecondary education, especially students from traditionally underrepresented groups. Access alone is insufficient, however, so this New Academy also is…

To illustrate that there are no insurmountable problems in having tenure co-exist with academic flexibility and fiscal prudence, the elements of an analytical faculty profile are listed and illustrated with simulated runs of a computerized faculty cost and tenure model displaying the consequences of several alternatives to the establishment of…

This task force report to the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York appraises present anxieties and suggests that higher education in New York must speak with one voice supporting efforts to maintain funding and low tuition and efforts to narrow public-private tuition gaps. (JT)