In the 1970s, camps were challenged by economic recession, growing administrative demands, and changing attitudes and interests of campers and staff. An illustrative article from 1972, "Facing the Camping Future with Confidence" (Michael F. Buynak), discusses hidden costs in camp operation and the need for camp administration to shift…

Provides a historical perspective of the admissions office leading to the present integrative system of enrollment management. The main issue for admissions offices remains that of balancing quantity and quality. Today they can integrate ideas of the past with technology of the present. This use of data will help design curriculums and support…

Universities arose because a supportive and protective environment conducive to face-to-face learning, scholarship, and debate was needed. Predictions that various technologies, including television, teaching machines, and Internet-based instruction and distance learning, would replace universities have not been realized. For 800 years, nothing…

Reflects on the heady past and dubious future of outdoor education in Ontario. Calls for reconceptualizing the field of outdoor education, taking down the terminological fence created by the word "outdoor," focusing on the holistic aspects of outdoor education, and uniting with like-minded souls in education as a whole, to survive into…

This book traces the history of Regina College (Saskatchewan, Canada) from its founding in 1911 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. The Methodist Church opened the college to offer academic, music, and business training to youth living in surrounding rural areas. During its early history, the college provided a high school education to youth…

An overview is provided of the 29-month (February 1934 to June 1936) history of Maryland's first public junior college, the Forest Park Junior College Center (FPJCC). First, the paper describes two previous attempts to establish a public junior college in Maryland, explaining how mayoral opposition blocked both efforts. The next section of the…

Discusses public policy controversies unique to West Virginia's only historically black land-grant institution, West Virginia State College, and describes the mission and history of the school in detail. Efforts to regain its historically black status in spite of the present majority-white student enrollment are outlined. (SLD)

The history of the idea of service at municipally-controlled institutions of higher education from the 19th century through 1930 is presented. Currently, as Americans are pursuing a search for their roots, many social institutions are focussing attention on building a viable sense of community, on inclusion and a more all-encompassing sense of…

This bulletin, presenting a statistical summary of education during the 1935-36 academic year, represents the first chapter of Volume II of the various statistical studies made during the biennium 1934-36 and published separately as advance pages of the "Biennial Survey of Education." Approximately 276,500 schools are included in the…