This article provides two case studies that examine the current and future consequences of continued global warming at the current business-as-usual pace and at a decreased (new alternative forms of energy) level. Cause and effect relationships, such as the varying levels of CO[subscript 2] (carbon dioxide) emissions and the effect it has on melting ice, higher sea levels, and the extinction of species, are explored. Potential policy solutions such as a carbon tax and renewable energies are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Climate, Conservation (Environment), Public Policy, College Role, Hansen, Jim
This essay revisits Karl Jaspers' classic, "The Idea of the University." Jaspers was reinstated as president of Heidelberg University in 1945, and he presided over its rebuilding. His book, "The Idea of the University," written in 1946, was published in English 13 years later. It interprets an ideal of the university and emphasizes the purposes and responsibilities of institutions of higher education. The objectives of the university are identified as research, education,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Colleges, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Values, Fincher,...
This conference was sponsored jointly by Valencia Community College and the Institute of Higher Education of the University of Florida. The presentations of the conference speakers and panelists are provided here. In keynoting the conference, Gunder Myran offered a description of "community-based education" as the ideal future of the community college. Ervin Harlacher spoke of a "community renewal college" where community development depends on individual rejuvenation,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Community Services,...
Ways in which modern higher education has become complex are discussed, along with accommodations to cope with complexity. The growing diversity of tasks that modern higher education systems have undertaken has led to structural differentiation, which deconcentrates the overall system, and academic professionalism, within which academics specialize their interests and commitments in a widening array of subjects and institutions. Large countries may permit diffuse coverage of all subjects, while...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, College Programs, College Role, Educational Change, Higher...
IN AN INTERVIEW, EDMUND J. GLEAZER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES, DESCRIBED TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE--(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF SEPARATE JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS, (2) INCREASED STATE LEVEL SUPPORT, (3) REGIONAL GROUPS FOR COORDINATION AND STIMULATION OF DEVELOPMENT, (4) DEVELOPMENT OF A ROLE WHICH IS NEITHER EXCLUSIVELY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM NOR EXCLUSIVELY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, (5) GROWTH IN INSTITUTION SIZE BECAUSE OF THE NEED TO BE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Educational Trends, Two Year Colleges, GLEAZER, EDMUND J., JR.
This paper applies Lewis Coser's theory of social conflict to an historical examination of community junior college/university relationships. This relationship has been marked by antagonism, jealousies, and general substantial conflict since the l920's--first, over the establishment of vocational programs in junior colleges, and second, over junior college efforts to obtain legislative endorsement and state support. Underlying the conflict were opposing views of the purpose of higher education:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Colleges, Conflict, Educational History, Two Year Colleges,...
This paper develops three theses: 1) education generally and teacher education in particular are disadvantaged by faulty governance systems and structures; 2) many of the problems of education stem directly or indirectly from these faulty structures; and 3) there is urgent need for a whole new set of assumptions about the governance of teacher education. The varying interrelationships between the disciplines, the professional schools, and the professions are examined through the use of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Governance, Intellectual Disciplines, Professional Education, Teacher...
As an important part in the national innovation system, colleges are the cradle for innovative spirits and talents as well as the main base for the innovation, transmission and application of knowledge. Therefore, they are expected to be adapted to the demands of social and economic development, to update their education ideas, to actively promote innovative education and to explore basic patterns and fundamental channels of innovative talent cultivation.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Talent Development, College Role, Innovation, Educational Innovation, Higher...
These proceedings reflect the three-fold purpose of the conference which was to: (1) determine the role and mission of Tennessee Community/Junior Colleges; (2) utilize newer and better ways of determining student achievement and awarding college credit; and (3) learn what the new student is like. Each of the three papers focused on one of these major themes. Following the presentation of each paper group discussions were held; summaries from these discussions are also presented. (AL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, College Role, Conference Reports, Student Characteristics, Two...
The university, in terms of its functions, can be viewed as a social critic, an implementer of social change, and a provider of associates for students as they develop critical facilities through the process of disciplined reflection. The problems concerned with increasing institutional commitment to partisan groups and the maintenance of the dual role of critic and implementer of social change are considered. Disciplined reflection by students can be sided by the presence of older people,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, College Students, Colleges, Student College Relationship, Covert,...
THE GROWING INTEREST IN CONTINUING EDUCATION ON THE LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS APPEARS RELATED TO (1) THE IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF THE GENERAL POPULATION, (2) THE CHANGING AND INCREASINGLY COMPLEX WORLD, (3) INCREASING LEISURE, AND (4) THE RISING STANDARD OF LIVING. RESEARCH INDICATES THAT (1) FEW COLLEGES EMPLOY ADULT EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS AND THAT SUCH POSITIONS ARE RELATIVELY NEW, (2) JUNIOR COLLEGES ARE LIMITED BY CERTAIN FORCES WHICH PREVENT THE FULL REALIZATION OF THEIR...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, College Role, Educational Philosophy, Educational Problems,...
The student, like all men, is a creature who seeks mood changes. Our society and our colleges sanction and encourage the use of many methods for changing mood, including the use of many legal drugs. The student, like many men, also seeks from time to time more profound changes in his state of consciousness. Our society and its colleges are ineffective in preventing and treating problems which arise from abuse of drugs. We seem to be overly vulnerable to the abuse-potential of self-altering...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Change, College Role, College Students, Drug Abuse, Social Values, Nowlis,...
This issue of "Policy Perspectives" explores the obligation of institutions of higher education to prepare students for lives of citizenship in addition to individual success. The truth is that colleges and universities have never actually done much to educate students for lives of civic and political engagement. The real issue is what they must do to be part of the solution. Four fundamental activities are: (1) convene broad-ranging institutional discussions of the meaning and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Education, College Role, Colleges, Curriculum Development, Higher...
Summaries of papers and discussions at a conference of directors and administrators of college community service and continuing education projects related to conservation and funded under Title I of the 1965 Higher Education Act are presented. The papers summarized consider the following topics: methods of eliciting support of public and private sources of assistance in co-operative community projects, obtaining congressional support, and the critical influences in environmental decisions....
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Services, Conference Reports, Conservation Education,...
This brochure suggests five goals that are likely to be shared by the people of Ontario, their government, and the province's publicly funded universities for a strong university system, and identifies the building blocks and resource-related commitments that would enable Ontario universities to achieve these goals. The goals are: (1) all appropriately qualified Ontario students will have access to a place in an Ontario university; (2) no student will be denied access to the program of his or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Higher...
The general character of Jaspers' idea of the university is outlined, and some basic objections to that view are examined. Throughout the paper an attempt is made to establish the relevance of Jaspers' work to current university problems. (Author/LBH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Biographies, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Higher...
The focus of this study is to examine the early reports and studies concerning the development of two-year colleges in Oklahoma. The basic inquiry is the examination of the reports of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Instruction and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education as well as dissertations or theses produced by University of Oklahoma students. The author's goal is to obtain a better understanding of the development of two-year colleges and also to understand the relevance of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational History, Two Year Colleges, Simpson,...
This paper explores the research function in higher education. It specifically addresses the following questions: (a) What is the complex role of research as a function in higher education?; (b) How do research results contribute to the resolution of societal needs and problems?; (c) In which institutions of higher education should the research function be developed and carried out?; (d) If research efforts must necessarily be delimited because of limited resources, what are some specific areas...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Educational Research, Higher Education, Research Needs, Research...
This document presents an overview of the instructional program at Fort Hays Kansas State College. The historical overview concerns present status, the educational task, the general mission of the Regent Institutions, and the instructional mission of FHKSC. Goals and objectives in seven program areas are discussed, including instruction, research, public service, academic support, student services, institutional support, and independent operations. Comments concerning the organizational, honors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Colleges, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Higher...
This article considers the function and value of the university through the close reading of Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel "I am Charlotte Simmons". Comparing the neoliberal university with an idealized university committed to intellectual inquiry, the article argues for a consideration of the academic values lost in the contemporary university, specifically the values of an intellectual meritocracy, academic identity and academic integrity. The article calls for a sustained and sincere...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Novels, Universities, Neoliberalism, Values, College Role, United States Literature,...
This conference resulted in a proposal for a consortium of two-year colleges to perform the following functions: (1) disseminating information about continuing education activities, (2) tapping regional resources that inform on continuing education problems, (3) providing technical assistance in the field, (4) organizing short-term training programs for staff, and (5) researching, developing, and evaluating new systems. (CK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, College Role, Conferences, Consortia, Information Dissemination, Two...
This report highlights and summarizes accountability activities and initiatives submitted by Illinois's 48 community colleges in their Accountability/Program Review Reports. This report has three primary sections: (1) Accountability Special Focus Area, which describes college priorities, performance-based incentives--district-based goal, and academic and student services--and availability and accessibility; (2) Analyses of the Results of Fiscal Year 2000 College Program Reviews, which examines...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment,...
This document contains a brief history of the development of the associate degree in British Columbia and reviews the degrees presently conferred. A major portion of the document focuses on newly approved (May 30, 2000) requirements for the Associate Degree of Arts (AA) and the Associate Degree of Science (AS). The associate degree formally became a degree in 1991; between 1993 and 1998, 1,350 students earned one. The report examines associate degree standards, simplicity, and transfer, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Associate Degrees, College Role, Community Colleges, Degree Requirements, Degrees...
A college of education cannot, and should not, try to assume the total university responsibility for helping professionals and laymen understand what is going on in the important enterprise of education. The college can, however, be the antenna of the university in finding crucial problems and can encourage university scholars to collaborate in solving them. Much emphasis in this paper is placed upon gaining a better picture of educational situations and problems because the rapid changes in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Teacher Education,...
There are some notable gestures to inculcate the "will to peace." General approval by all the nations of the world seems now to be given to the World Court. The League of Nations, though not approved officially by the U.S., is generally admitted as approaching the ideal of its originator, the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. forces during the World War. Barriers of international prejudices that tend to international conflict are doubtless being broken down by the interchange of students and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, War, College Role, Role of Education, Peace, Global Education,...
As a public good, universities have a rare and critical role to play. While Universities educate leaders for the future, they also address important societal issues of the day. The discoveries can and do change the world. The groundwork is laid for the future as work is done to preserve the culture of the past. The university?s role is "rare" because it is positioned to the side of everyday life, unconstrained by requirements for rigid adherence to social norms or intellectual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Citizen Participation, College Role, Consciousness Raising,...
Critics of the community college are justified in challenging unsubstantiated statements about the institution by college spokespersons or in public relations releases disguised as institutional analyses. During the 1960's, for example, increasing enrollments were often cited as evidence of public support for community colleges--without reference to the social and demographic factors that caused the enrollment boom. Similarly, claims that community colleges do a better job of teaching than...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Demand, Social...
THE TEXTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE AND A SUMMARY OF A PANEL DISCUSSION COMPOSE THE BODY OF THIS REPORT. THREE GENERAL QUESTIONS WERE IDENTIFIED AS SUITABLE TARGETS FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH--(1) WHAT CHANGES WOULD SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCY OF STUDENTS. (2) WHAT CHANGES WOULD INCREASE AN INSTITUTION'S EDUCATIONAL EFFICIENCY. (3) WHAT CHANGES WOULD MOST REALISTICALLY RELATE AN INSTITUTION'S TOTAL EFFORT TO THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY IT SERVES. SUGGESTED...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Administrative Organization, College Role, Educational...
The community involvement of speech communication department faculty members at Eastern Illinois University (Charleston) is described in this transcript of a symposium presented at the Southern Speech Communication Association meeting. Among the specific groups served are Ralston-Purina, the Illinois State Dental Association, the University of Illinois Medical School, numerous inservice teacher education workshops, and a variety of local service clubs. The programs devised for each group are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Communication (Thought Transfer), Inservice Education, Postsecondary...
After a brief historical background of community college functions, the author develops a fictional model, Alpha College, to demonstrate the organization and operation of a continuing education program. The following hypothetical examples are offered: general course offerings, sociology for nurses, industrial drafting, informal course in real estate, and a program for lawyers. (CA)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, College Role, Community Services, Lifelong Learning, Two Year...
During the ninety-eight years since Abraham Lincoln signed the Land Grant College Act, American colleges and universities have prodigiously expanded and extended the activities begun even earlier by alert pioneers. No longer do they limit themselves to the polite learning of interest to the republic of letters. Their services for agriculture and industry sketched here illustrate developments and achievements not only in the "useful arts and sciences" but also in the fundamental...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agriculture, College Role, Educational History, Higher Education, Industry, Land...
IN 1965, OF THE 68 CATHOLIC 2-YEAR COLLEGES, 48 WERE DEVOTED SOLELY TO PREPARATION FOR PRIESTHOOD OR THE RELIGIOUS LIFE, 17 WERE PRIVATE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES, AND ONLY THREE WERE COMMUNITY COLLEGES. LIMITED CATHOLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE JUNIOR COLLEGE MOVEMENT IS DUE TO (1) LACK OF GOOD COUNSELING IN HIGH SCHOOLS, (2) STUDENTS' LOW APPRAISAL OF THEIR OWN ABILITIES, (4) SIMILAR LACK OF SELF-ESTEEM AMONG THE FACULTY, RESULTING IN POOR RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION, AND (5) A PREFERENCE FOR THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Role, Two Year Colleges, BERG,...
This monograph deals with the dominant characteristics of liberal education as a number of historical typologies, models, or categories, and attempts, from time to time, to distinguish the claims made by defenders from reality. The typologies, chosen because of their frequent occurrence in discussions of liberal education, are: character formation, leadership, breadth, personality development, critical thinking, and general education. The discussion begins with an exploration of secondary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Education, College Role, Educational History, Higher Education, Liberal...
As temples of higher learning, universities are particularly partial to Latin phraseology. The more obscure the phrase, the better. Latin froth can also convey a potent image of lofty intellectualism that emboldens vacuous claims to "higher education" and "excellence". The motto is indeed a wonderful window to the university's soul. It is what Oscar Wilde might have referred to as the triumph of hope over experience. In this article, the author talks about university mottos...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Ideology, Institutional Mission, Marketing, Institutional...
The Office of Research and Planning at Nova Southeastern University had previously estimated that Nova Southeastern University had nearly a $218 million economic impact on South Florida during fiscal year 1994. This study replicated the methods used for the prior estimate to update the economic impact estimate for fiscal year 2000 (07/01/99 to 06/30/00). To offer context to the need for this update, it is useful to note that income grew by 89% from fiscal year 1994 to fiscal year 2000, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Colleges, Economic Impact, Expenditures, Higher Education, Income,...
The historical development of the liberal arts college in the United States and its status in the 1980s are discussed. Although for nearly 300 years, liberal arts colleges have been a dominant force in North American higher education, in the 1980s they have come to constitute a small and decreasing portion of postsecondary education. The position of the liberal arts college began to recede after World War II. At least two factors contributed to the maintenance of the English form or pattern in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Curriculum, College Role, Educational Change, Educational History, General...
This document presents the report of the resource group in charge of an analysis of the goals of higher education in the development of a master plan for higher education in the state of Connecticut. Specific areas that the group addressed include: (1) governance; (2) need for new technical colleges, community colleges, and four-year colleges; (3) state relationships with independent and proprietary colleges; (4) goals for higher education in Connecticut; and (5) the role and scope of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Governance, Higher...
At the end of every academic year, an alumni survey is administered to recent graduates of Boise State University, Idaho. A great deal of data has accumulated over time, with some covering a 10-year period. Data are available for 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000, and 2001. The smallest sample was 475 in 2000; the largest was 960 in 1995. Findings show that recent graduates have placed more importance on their careers and the skills that will make them employable. Recent graduates also thought that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alumni, College Role, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education, Individual Development, Job...
This paper discusses the roles and responsibilities of the linguist in the English department and also the roles and responsibilities of the English department in relation to the linguist. Discussed are such topics as the exclusivity of some English departments, linguists. grievances against some English departments, linguists' expectations for professional advancement, the teaching conditions imposed by some English departments on linguists, and the difference between conditions imposed on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, English Departments, Higher Education, Linguistics, School...
The concept of career education embraces the programs referred to as vocational-technical but it also encompasses all other segments of the educational program. In the concept of career education in the community college there are two themes, specialization and regeneration. The specialization theme enables an individual to refine his ability to perform a particular life role or a segment of a life role in a more proficient manner. Regeneration means renewing one's capability to perform one or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Development, Career Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational...
Community colleges have begun offering baccalaureate (BA) degrees in fields such as education, health and technology, which raises a host of concerns. Unsurprisingly, these new programs have generated mixed reactions. The majority of community college officials, as well as industries and employers, welcome this addition. Some established institutions and state officials, however, express concern that community colleges are not prepared to embark on this new mission. Even proponents of community...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Bachelors...
WHILE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS ESSENTIALLY PRAGMATIC IN ITS BASIC OUTLOOK, IT IS CLOSELY RELATED TO TRADITIONAL ASPECTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. THESE EXTREME POSITIONS MUST BE AVOIDED AS THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPS A CONSISTENT FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR GUIDING POLICY DECISIONS. THE BASIC CONCEPT OF THE COLLEGE SUFFERS WHEN THE INSTITUTION BECOMES MERELY A COMMUNITY STATUS SYMBOL OF HIGHER EDUCATION OR WHEN THE INSTITUTION IS EVALUATED AGAINST THE NORM OF CURRENT PRACTICE. CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Philosophy, Social Influences, Two Year...
This document contains volume two of Learning Abstracts, a bimonthly newsletter from the League for Innovation in the Community College. Articles in these seven issues include: (1) "Get on the Fast Track to Learning: An Accelerated Associate Degree Option" (Gerardo E. de los Santos and Deborah J. Cruise); (2) "The Learning College: Both Learner and Learning Centered" (Terry O'Banion); (3) "Soaring Moles and Burrowing Eagles: Decision-Making in the Learning College"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Innovation,...
The university exists in its own right as a fundamental construct in the system of beliefs, traditions, myths, saga, governments, churches, and other social institutions and structures that comprise the hallmarks of Western culture. In an attempt to understand the university and its value system, pertinent issues are discussed: (1) the university as an organization (G. Lester Anderson and Kenneth P. Mortimer); (2) values in higher education (G. Lester Anderson and William Toombs); (3) the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Higher...
This paper traces the regulation of intercollegiate athletics from the late 19th-century to the present and discusses current trends in the supervision of intercollegiate athletics. It examines the emergence of faculty control of athletics and the concept of faculty athletic committees in the late 1800s due to the inability or unwillingness of students to control their own athletic programs. The founding of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the early 1900s and the results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Administration, College Athletics, College Role, Educational...
This speech concerns higher education in the 1980's and the role of the private institution. Emphasis is placed on: (1) the nature of the new period of change into which higher education must enter, (2) some of the impacts of this period on private institutions, and (3) solutions for the private institutions in the new period. (Author/MJM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Higher...
Exemplary community service programs are isolated and relatively few in number. Furthermore, the motivating stimulus for most exceptional community service activities has not been the concern of community college governing boards, administrators, or state politicians, but instead has been the availability of federal or foundation funding sources. Excluding programs funded from external sources, community colleges have not generally been accountable to the broad heterogenous community that they...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, College Role, Community Colleges, Community Services, Needs...
In a partially personal account, written in March 2002, the author asks what education can teach the larger society about appropriate responses to the events of September 11, 2001. She describes the ways in which she and other members of the general public were educated by scholars concerned with the Arab and Muslim worlds from colleges and universities across the country. Although these scholars' work might have seemed esoteric in August 2001, it became a rich societal resource the next month....
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Terrorism,...
This research (Uprising of Creation in Education) aims at defining the importance of creativity in education, and its reflection on the elements of the educational process. Creativity is regarded an important element in the nations progress, which depends on the minds of their sons. Creativity became the language of the present age, after the transformation of the educational and psychological scientists interest from studying the intellectual student to the study of creative student, and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Education, College Role, Critical Thinking,...
This qualitative investigation identified a condition of frenetic change experienced by two colleges in British Columbia, Canada, accompanying their change from community colleges to university colleges. Explored how economic globalization influenced the formation and functioning of these institutions. (EV)
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Role, Community Colleges, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Foreign...
