Describes how the diversity of LaGuardia Community College's student body has forced a systematic, layered dialogue about appropriate pedagogy and curriculum content, led to innovations that create community, and stimulated faculty introspection. (EV)

Describes the changes at All Souls College in Oxford, England, during the past 10 years. (PG)

The developing state political organizations and the public interest research groups have involved college students in a new political activism built on the idealism of the 60s but tempered by the pragmatic politics of the seventies. (Author/PG)

Describes the University of Alabama at Birmingham's experience grappling with the many issues surrounding postdoctoral education in order to ensure that postdoctoral researchers are treated as more than cheap skilled labor and given benefits or opportunities for advancement. (EV)

There are growing numbers of students whose concerns are not academic matters but personal growth and personal relationships. These students are dropping out of school to work and to begin their new lives. (PG)

Increased enrollments, regional politics, student activism and rigid examinations have all contributed to the higher education crisis in India. (PG)

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)

In a study conducted by the American Council on Education, it was determined that social background, student ability and college quality determine the impact that college will have on students. (HS)

Excerpted from the second volume of his three-part autobiography, this essay describes B. F. Skinner's first year as a graduate student at Harvard University. Although he focuses on his study of psychology, particularly behaviorism, Skinner also discusses his interest in physiology. (JMD)

Some colleges have been able to create and maintain campus climates that promote educationally purposeful student behavior. The 14 "involving colleges" identified in a recent study provide unusually rich extra-classroom learning opportunities for undergraduates. Common cultural features of the institutions include strong institutional…

Discussion of the current market-orientation of higher education institutions outlines five ways they can appropriately respond to students and employers: creating a culture focusing on student learning, not teaching; accepting responsibility to teach more than course content; involving students in establishing objectives for learning; making…

A questionnaire survey of graduates of University of Michigan's Residential College during 1971-1974 indicates that those students were not disadvantaged in the competition for postgraduate and occupational opportunities. The strengths of RC and other experimental colleges lie in their energetic cultural, social, and political life. (LBH)

Discusses the District of Columbia's 4-year old Federal City College. (PG)

A discussion of distance education as the fastest-growing instructional pattern in the world looks at enrollment trends and the immediate concerns of the institutions, including student attrition, the need to maintain strong communication links with students, and administrative and logistical problems. (MSE)