This report draws a clear if disturbing picture of the children of Resurrection City, the nature of their family life, and their behavior under duress in the confusion of Resurrection City. The authors worked with the City's 157 children for four weeks. Also included is a discussion of some of the broader implications of this work by a white child…

One frequently encounters innuendoes, charges, allegations, threats, and rationales of conspiracy in studying the role of rhetoric in social movements. While "full discussion of competing ideas," holds high repute, "people meeting to plot some action," is disreputable and under some conditions illegal. This paper focuses on existing definitions of…

This is a report on the general nature of student concerns and activities as reflected by the 1969 National Student Association Congress. The author interprets past and present trends and occurrences rather than summarizing the activities of the congress. The topics covered include: student power (governance structures); legal rights;…

Project TOMORROW is designed to provide better vocational education for Colorado youth and adults who have special problems, including social and economic disadvantagement, participation in student unrest, disinterest in education, dropping out of school, lack of motivation, and drug use. Phase 1 of the project (1970-1971) sought to help a number…

The recent advance of collective bargaining into higher education is such that many colleges and universities may anticipate several changes of potentially major proportions in their decisionmaking patterns. One feature of collective bargaining is the discontent on the part of many faculties to rely on informal or noncodified procedures in matters…

In answer to the demands from all sides for change in higher education, a study group was formed at the University of Connecticut to determine the direction that institution will take to meet present demands and future needs. In doing so, the committee concerned itself with certain issues that constitute the background of any planning effort.…

In a survey discussion on the state of college newspapers the author observes that the campus press has at last shaken its radical image and returned to respectability: a preprofessional attitude by the staff, interest in investigative reporting, and a concern for the source of the next dollar. (JT)

Argues for revitalization of teachers through inservice training as a way of changing teachers' self-concept to one of high efficacy. The author maintains that teachers can then attempt to improve the legitmacy of the curriculum and their students' perceptions of it. (Author/DB)

Eugene D. Genovese, the new president of the Organization of American Historians, and the first Marxist to hold that post, is interviewed. Among the topics discussed are the Bertell Ollman incident at the University of Maryland, academic freedom and political discrimination on campus, campus activism, and Genovese's academic career. (JMD)

Higher education in India has returned to normal after cessation of the declared Emergency by Indira Gandhi, with increased student and faculty militancy as well as the emergence of strong pressures for increased governmental control over the university. (LBH)

The modern university reflects many of the tensions and stresses of the wider society of which it is a part. The conditions generating conflict are related to the ambiguity and multiplicity of academic goals. Within the context of a political model of the university, various strategic and tactical methods for dealing with conflict between…

The vast changes that crumbled the ivory tower of 1940 were unforseen, unplanned, and largely unintended. Educators did not control developments but were carried along on social and demographic currents: the demands of war, returning veterans, economic growth, the baby boom, Vietnam, campus revolt, economic decline, and changing public support.…

Since last year's campus demonstrations, many Chinese academic officials agree that university students are socially and politically immature and have little experience with workers, work, or the complexities of the reforms being undertaken in China. (MSE)

Study of 23 Black university women and White university women in the American South suggests that the school provides an important setting for learning status quo gender roles. But, in distinction to the case for class and race, gender roles are not a primary target of women's opposition. (Author/BJV)

Kent State administrators insist they are committed to building a memorial to those who were killed when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on demonstrators, but they blame slow fund raising on lack of public interest in the effort. (MLW)