To manage increased demands despite limited resources, schools need to invoke safeguards. They must clarify the scope of school involvements, demand adequate funding, reject accountability for the failure of other social institutions and structures (like the family), and use their considerable expertise to resolve the dropout problem. (MLH)

Stress is an inevitable characteristic of academic life, but colleges and universities can introduce stress management activities at the organizational level to avert excessive tension. Preventive actions are described, including flexible work schedules and social supports. (Author/MSE)

Freedom of inquiry and academic freedom must be maintained in the university, and public policy must respect the university's uniqueness and support targeted and basic research. Individual researchers, administrators, and public officials must acknowledge personal responsibility for choices and act in accordance with their axiologies and moral…

Identifies four points of educational leadership that are crucial in the evolution of the community college movement. Urges leaders to define educational goals; build bridges between traditional and nontraditional education; add a community service component to associate degree requirements; and reaffirm their commitment to equity as well as…

The legal situation of college administrators when they give advice to staff, students, and the public is outlined, and administrators are warned of their legal liability and the potential consequences of giving information and advice. (MSE)

The extent and nature of sexual harassment of students by college faculty are examined, and practical suggestions for institutions to eradicate academic sexual harassment are made, including a published code of conduct and educational programs. (MSE)

Increasingly, institutions are offering counseling on contraception, pregnancy, and other sex-related issues because of concern about a number of legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from student athlete pregnancy such as the safety, injury, privacy, and the college's responsibility to the student. (MSE)

In the decline of public confidence in education, the underlying issue, what the act of learning is, is exemplified in the attack on humanism in the schools, resulting in a confusion of the process of gaining knowledge with knowledge itself, a shift in responsibility from the individual to the institution, and devaluation of ideas. (MSE)

Harvard University's president outlines his institution's policy regarding providing institutional financial aid to male students who have not registered with the Selective Service and therefore do not qualify for federal funds, criticisms of this policy, and arguments supporting it. (MSE)

Academic freedom has been denied to religion professors wishing to broach controversial issues in the college classroom. The American Association of University Professors' 1940 statement perpetuates that discrimination and should be repudiated. (MSE)

A New York City bar association's Special Committee on Education and the Law report outlines sound law and practice in the major issues in tenure: fair procedures in reappointment, tenure decisions, and tenure termination; claims of unlawful discrimination, confidentiality claims in tenure decisions; and the scope of judicial intervention. (MSE)

Focusing on the difficult privacy issues inherent in school health problems, this article offers a legal background to the counseling and record keeping responsibilities facing school personnel dealing with the prevalent and potentially stigmatizing student health problems of pregnancy, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases. (MJL)

Surveyed 161 Canadian high school students and their parents in a family life and sex education needs assessment. Results showed students and parents regarded vocational and educational guidance as the most pressing psychoeducational need, preferring to incorporate family life education into existing programs. (JAC)

Teachers deserve higher salaries because society values their work. Local districts, however, have a responsibility to specify precisely what the community expects its teachers to do. This action would simplify teacher evaluation and make merit pay a workable possibility. (PP)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of ability grouping in relation to equal educational opportunity as provided for by the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In view of the disproportionate numbers of minorities assigned to low ability groups, is grouping legal? (Author/JM)