This survey of the Higher Education Panel (HEP) of the American Council on Education was conducted in response to the growing concern among many members of the academic community about the threat posed to our higher education system by a new commercial service for college students, the theme writing firm. These companies make available to…

The author states that "there is a sense of inevitability about the course on which higher education is set in America and that planners may be helpless to change this course; though it may, indeed probably will, be changed by the forces of society. But if it remains on the present course, what are the possible consequences?" What these…

Although the American system of higher education has been concerned with developing its own unity as a social institution, this book demonstrates that the system has always remained sensitive to three societal factors. There are the changing needs of society; the struggles for control over the sources of culture, knowledge and power within…

This book is a collection of essays written by experienced observers of academia about what happened in 17 institutions during the late 1960s. Institutions included are: Antioch; University of California, Berkeley; City College of New York; Federal City College; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Michigan; Old…

This document presents an inquiry into university provision for campus religious life. Emphasis is placed on the question of custody; the basis litigation; support given; precedents for adjudication: what models of religious coordination are available; and who is responsible. Appendices include a statement regarding the relationships between the…

This paper identifies the goals that are sought through higher education in all its aspects and explores the implications of these goals for the financing of higher education. Fifteen goals are considered including: economic growth and military power, supply of professional and other skilled persons, citizenship and civic leadership, solution of…

This essay considers the institution of higher education as a firm. The first part of the paper contains an attempt to construct a theory of enrollment supply. The balance of the paper is devoted to applications of the theory to the problem of price control and nonprice rationing in higher education, to the economics of student scholarships and…

"Outlook" publications focus on areas of science and technology in which research can be valuable to industry, government, and society as a whole. This issue deals with the problems of air pullution and air quality control. The first of six essays,". . . This Most Excellent Canopy, the Air," prognosticates the surge in atmospheric pollution and…

During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of a National Institute of Education. This document is the first of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational…

During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of the National Institute of Education. This document is the third of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational…

Embodied in this collection of readings in environmental awareness are excerpts, statements, testimony, and personal philosophies presented by national leaders concerned with our environment. Major items include: "Environmental Literacy" by Richard Nixon from his introduction to the First Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality,…

Book excerpts, editorials, poems, speeches, newsletter and journal articles, and congressional testimony are compiled in this anthology to aid in the understanding of environmental education and environmental awareness. Major items include: "Poems and Other Expressions of Environmental Concern" by Morton Leeds; "Man, Nature, and the Ecological…

Concern over the reading and writing programs in Vancouver, British Columbia Schools culminated in the establishment in June 1974 of a Task Force on English. In response to the request from the Task Force for a survey of the writing ability of Grade 11 students, a committee of English Department Heads assisted in developing an instrument and the…

This article suggests techniques for making effective use of essay questions in the social studies. For journal availability see SO 504 433. (Author/RM)

Urges composition teachers to use Montaigne's essays as useful rhetorical models of the personal essay. (DD)