Higher education is a distribution center of knowledge and economic, social, and cultural power. The instructor's power is usually unquestioned, particularly by students who must comply with instructors who are the gatekeepers to resources they need. Understanding alienation in higher education classrooms illuminate how power influences…

Commercialization and commodification of higher education has been subjected to wide critique in academic literature. The relative privilege of academic professions seems to be on the decline, as universities are subjected to increasing competitive pressures -- pressures which these institutions pass on to academics. Academics experience a loss of…

There is a burgeoning interfaith movement in U.S. higher education, inspired, in large part, by global events, and aimed at promoting tolerance of religious diversity. While there are various supporting arguments and approaches to this type of student programming, social justice oriented approaches--that is, approaches specifically centered around…

Address given at annual meeting of Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, January 1970). (IR)

Responding to Woodward (Journal of Educational Thought; v12 n3 p190-96 Dec 1978), the author disagrees that youth's cynicism is traceable solely to the skepticism evoked by modern science. Rather, he finds it expicable in the unchallenged sway of empiricism--the dominant interpretation of science under capitalism. (Author/SJL)

At the root of student unrest are two basic factors: (1) the "involuntary campus," and (2) the "manipulated society." Many students attend a university not because they want to, but because of parental pressure, to avoid the draft, to get the right job, or to satisfy the notion that in order to be really accomplished it is…

Describes a method for estimating the possible dimensions of youth power in each community to assist in determining administrative responses to an enfranchised, and politically active, student body. (Author)

This article argues that intergenerational communication problems are aggravated by university education, primarily because of the present state of the social sciences, where emphasis on scientific methodology and skepticism teach students that practically nothing can withstand critical scientific review; that, in effect, all established authority…

Analyzes three different types of discrimination. Individual and institutional discrimination refer to actions intended to have a negative impact on women and minorities. Structural discrimination refers to policies supposedly neutral in intent but that produce negative effects. Provides concrete examples of each. (MJP)

Within the teacher empowerment movement, a theoretical framework for analyzing the condition of teaching as work is not widely considered. Given the special character of the varying expectations held by interest groups focusing on teacher productivity, a concise theory would provide teacher education students a foundation for participating fully…

This study examined a new measure of ecological dissonance (ED), whether different degrees of ED existed within levels of a university's power hierarchy, the relationship between ED and worker morale as a function of administrative power levels, and ED theory. Ninety-four faculty members at Mississippi State University completed the Index of Power…