Changes in the world of higher education since the '60s can be captured in several photographs, including the aftermath of the war protest rally at Kent State, James Meredith with the National Guard, Allan Bakke beside a patient's bed, and the Asian student in Beijing who challenged government tanks. (MLW)

If current trends continue the future for radical faculty hangs in doubt. The author portrays the growing conservatism of academe and recounts numerous politically motivated actions against leftists. (Ed.)

The protest movement today has altered all conflicts and discussions, so that difficulties that formerly were considered private matters (such as conflicts between student and teacher, worker and employer) now claim political significance, to be justified with political concepts. (Author)

Substantive reforms in government, society and education must take place in the immediate future to keep the faith of the moderate student. (IR)

A distinction between the student movement and the counterculture is made. Many of the educational innovations endorsed by the student movement in the 1960s are seen as having survived while the sociopolitical experimentation promoted by the counterculture has failed. Examples of innovations are provided. (MLW)

Jimmy Carter's conception of the role of education, his approach to the process of reform, and his method of policy formation are discussed in the light of the status of education in Georgia. (LBH)

The influx of Cuban refugees following Castro's rise to power and the Bay of Pigs invasion is described. Their settlement in southern Florida was aided by the educational community, particularly the schools and colleges of Miami, whose task will continue to be that of unifying the American and Cuban cultures. (LBH)

A little over ten years ago, Herbert Marcuse found himself in the cross fire of the student movement. The radical right saw in Marcuse an incitement to revolutionary action, but individualism distinguished him from doctrinaire Marxists. He upheld the importance of pure contemplation and theory. (MLW)

Author comments on the campus revolt at Northwestern University and states that educational reforms demanded by campus strikes are designed to open the university to the community, to student government and to all political and social expediencies. (IR)

The academic, believing himself appointed to reshape society, now finds society has no wish to be reshaped and regards him as one cause of social distress. (Editor/IR)

For 400 years the National Autonomous University of Mexico has remained at the hub of the country's intellectual and political life. The history of the University from the Mayas and the Aztecs, University expansion, upward mobility of students, and student pressure groups and politics are described. (MLW)

The quality of public discourse and the ethical implications of divestment for universities as well as for corporations are discussed. Harvard's divestment of Exxon's stock is discussed and the question of whether Harvard should continue to accept Exxon's philanthropic grants is debated. (MLW)

College presidents nominated students to receive the Robinson Student Humanitarian Achievement Award honoring their commitment to community service. The four winners, George Arnold Cuevas Antillon, Eileen Doyle, Diane Koucky, and Joseph O'Brien, are interviewed. (MLW)

This article examines the issue of "political correctness" on U.S. campuses and suggests that much of the controversy is a creation of the press, has little factual basis, and may be partially a reaction by the press establishment to increased numbers of women and minorities in journalism. (DB)

A Black woman who came of age in the 1960s discusses her distrust of educational institutions, including Black institutions. She claims that they avoided issues of race, and it wasn't until the call of Black Power that an era of pluralism was initiated. Black feminist scholars are seen to have been undermined. (MLW)