Author considered seven controversies that might define the future and the need for change in educational practice. (RK)

Likely enrollment trends in the near future may forecast difficulties for institutions, and for current and prospective faculty, but students will seldom, if ever, have it so good on campus. Institutions will be primed to serve student needs better than ever before. (MSE)

Comments on seven "propositions" about the future of higher education made by Howard Bowen in 1989, including observations about the capacity to predict change, the value ascribed to higher education by the public, characterization of higher education as a growth industry, need for improvement in higher education's quality, and…

For this time of uncertainty and insecurity the author suggests six things trustees and presidents can or must do: analyze the situation of the individual institution, reassess missions, guard flexibility, look to new markets (sources of students), consider the most appropriate type of leadership, look ahead to the year 2000.

This monograph collects 28 essays that were originally published between 1960 and 1980, a period viewed as the third major period in the history of U.S. higher education with politicalization of the campus, a great wave of attempted academic reform (and attendant disappointments), and great public efforts to achieve equality of opportunity. Some…

In this long-range look at higher education, it is predicted that short-range problems will be the challenge. Enrollment predictions, along with such other issues as quality of education, balance in higher education, integrity, dynamism of institutions, and the future of the private sector, are discussed. (MLW)

This article gives a general historical perspective and framework for the discussion of higher education in post-1992 Europe. Universities are, by nature of their commitment to advancing universal knowledge, essentially international institutions, but they have been living in a world of nation states that have designs upon them. (MLW)

For the twenty-first century, higher education's future is promising, but in the meantime, there are problems--demographics, inflation, middle-class backlash--and two less discussed perils: loss of diversity and weakened commitment to science. However, individual institutions have individual futures and many are bright. (Author/LBH)

This book outlines possible solutions to the problems facing higher education in the twenty-first century such as: (1) nationalization versus internationalization; (2) merit in academic pursuits versus equality of treatment; (3) the preservation of the past versus improvement of the present or changes in the future; (4) differentiation of…

A discussion of trends in the structure of higher education since 1960 focuses on three modern imperatives: the demands for greater opportunity in the polity, for higher competence in each advanced economy marked by greater competition among nations, and for facilities for lifelong learning. (MSE)

Describes the community college as a dynamic, mobile, and evolving institution. Cites ten societal needs and higher education's role in fulfilling them. Enumerates the instructional, quasi-instructional, and facilitating functions of the community college and advocates providing expanded services to high school dropouts and graduates who do not…

In addition to declining enrollments in the '80s, colleges and universities must reckon with decreased public funding, a lack of money for construction, and a possible loss of educational diversity. Public and private institutions must work "to promote better public policies." (Author/MLW)

Higher education is seen as having had a good decade in the '70s, but changes that have occurred include: the rise of the public sector, regulation, more public money, larger institutions, decline in public confidence, enrollment rate shifts, aging faculty, "defensive" posture, new students, and new market orientation. (Author/MLW)

The president emeritus of the University of California proposes that some aspects of the ethics of the academic profession are disintegrating slowly and that mutual trust within the community is eroding. Political and financial influences are seen to be largely responsible for this decline. (MSE)

The author supports theories of the relationship between school and work expressed in Torsten Husen's book, "The School in Question." The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the education-work relationship in China and the United States, the Work in America Institute, and the National Academy of Education are…