Policy discourses about the third mission of universities in the knowledge economy have placed the question regarding the relation between university and society again high on the agenda. The aim of this article is to reconsider the university's third mission, in the widest sense of its relations with society, and to do so through the lens of the…

Rabindranath Tagore (1861--1941) is primarily known worldwide as the first Asian poet to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1913. He lived and died in colonial India as a British subject. However, any engagement with studies of Tagore would reveal that, despite his outstanding achievements in creative writing and music, he deserves to be…

Free universities are diverse but loosely networked projects that resist repressive capitalist and state configurations of power by re-imagining teaching, learning and research on their own terms, often through radical and ongoing experimentation. Drawing from my own experiences as a co-founder and organiser of the Brisbane Free University, along…

This article approaches the question of how far critical pedagogy can be institutionalised through a series of historical and contemporary examples. Current debates concerned with the co-operative university are examined, as well as histories of independent working-class education and the free university movement. Throughout this history, critical…

Based on site visits, phone calls, and reviews of descriptive literature, this guide examines more than 250 alternative college and university programs. Each listing provides basic information on affiliation, academic calendar, yearly fees, and enrollment. There is also a brief description of the school's physical environment and facilities,…

Heliotrope, Orpheus, and Communiversity, San Francisco's three free universities, offer curricula with combinations of alchemy, magic, Volkswagen repairs, options in education, dance, conversational Mandarin, basic plumbing, and brain wave experiences. (Author/PG)

This report gives a summary of the work and methods conducted by a study group at the University Without Walls (UWW) of Boston, June 1972-May 1973. Section II discusses some of the outstanding qualities that characterize UWW students. The backgrounds that influence their education experiences as higher education students and set them apart from…

This document, reporting on a visit to the University Without Walls (UWW) of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, opens with a definition of the Union. When the Union applied for Correspondent Status in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, it was agreed that the decision should be based on the…

The author states that what we have not done, and what the lessons of the past demand that we do, is to create a curriculum and an intellectual environment that stimulate both teachers and students to think about the larger dimensions of human affairs. (CT)

Author criticizes the educational reformers who, through changes that they advocate in the college classroom, would like to execute a significant radical gesture calculated to shake the entire American system." (Author/DR)

Annotated listings include: four-year undergraduate degree programs; two-year associate degree programs; graduate degree programs; nontraditional individualized programs; university without walls programs; colleges offering credited experiential programs; credited enrichment, in-service, and continuing education opportunities; additional…

Hiring and maintaining a qualified interdisciplinary faculty is proving to be a great difficulty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. (HS)

This report concerns the extablishment and development of the British Open University. Contents include the descriptions of: the development of the institution; staffing the open university; development of the Milton Keynes Campus; undergraduate course development; regional organization; demand for open university courses; development, production,…

This document has four parts. Part 1 defines free universities, describes the origins of the free universities of the 70's, breaks down current free universities into three kinds, and ends with a chapter on teacher-learning processes. Part 2 contains quantitative information - numbers, age, location, enrollments, and funding. Part 3 lists what…

The papers in this document present three themes: history of higher education; educational thought; and education and reform. "The University of Illinois' Long Search for a Permanent Campus in Chicago, 1946-1963: The Relationship between the Politics of Influence and the Conflicting Images of an Urban University" (G. A. Sprague) begins part 1 and…