In July 2002, the Forum merged with Community IMPACT! USA, a national organization created to support a network of neighborhood-based affiliates dedicated to helping young people develop the skills, knowledge and connections needed to improve educational and economic opportunities in their neighborhoods. This issue of Forum Focus shares the story…

It is the purpose of this study to explore several differences and similarities between students at two mid-western institutions of higher learning, one a community college and the other a large university. (Author/RK)

A distinguished German university professor refuses to submit to the tactics of an organized minority of student activists. (Editor)

The hypothesized curvilinear relationship between powerlessness and social activism was not supported; however, when social activism is defined as a nonviolent "within-the-system" intervention, there is a direct linear relationship between the variables--with the powerful students exhibiting a tendency to embrace this form of social activism.…

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

A study of past and current definitions of documentary film, rejecting those as too superficial, offering as a better definition one that demands examination of the internal evidence of films and remains aware of the ontological limitations of the medium. (CH)

The demands of black students for black staff, black student organizations, and the study of African languages are signs of separation that trouble not only many white faculty but also blacks who think of themselves as liberals. This paper examines the attitudes of black faculty in white colleges toward student demands. (DM)

Argues that perhaps there is a chance that the drastic conditions existing in the slums (conditions which are spreading to previously stable old neighborhoods) will be the major force which will break the back of factionalism, elitism, and neocolonialism and serve as the lever for authentic democratic community development. (Author/JM)

Considers the principles of Adam Smith and their application for militant students. (RK)

Explores the thesis that the terror of militant poetry is mitigated by one step taken backward from the abyss of despair, a retreat into the saving grace of laughter, analyzing poetry by Mari Evans, Dudley Randall, Don L. Lee, Mikki Giovanni, and other young militant black poets. (Author/JM)

The authors argue that counselors must begin to accept and then to implement a view of themselves as facilitators of change within the school system. (Author)

Describes reasons for and patterns of high school protest movements. (DS)