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Describes how many professors, frustrated with conditions at four-year institutions, find satisfaction teaching at community colleges. (EV)

Explores the homophobic attitudes common to college athletics departments, and the silence many gay athletes believe to be their only option. (EV)

Three articles explore the controversy over whether to mitigate dwindling state support for higher education by charging a range of tuition rates based on students' ability to pay; also discussed is students' efforts to bring legal action to stop tuition increases. (EV)

Evidence is accumulating around the world that greatly increased access to higher education over the past two decades has come at a tremendous price--a severe decline in academic quality. Brief reports on the quality-quantity question and other major issues facing higher education in the world are presented. (MLW)

Describes how parents are more involved than ever in the increasingly competitive admissions process, to the dismay of some applicants and colleges. (EV)

Describes how even spouses and assistants enjoy the perks bestowed upon people who work in college athletics. (EV)

Colleges report that foreign student enrollments are declining as tighter U.S. regulations make other countries' programs seem more attractive to many students. (EV)

Women's colleges, which have generally considered sports an integral part of academic life, now face pressures to compete with coed institutions at which sports have taken on a more competitive attitude. Many fear compromising their ideals if they endeavor to match the athletic programs of other institutions. (SLD)

Discusses how two leagues' (Ivy and the New England Small College Athletic Conference, or Nescac) decisions to limit off-season practices to allow athletes more time for academics and other activities are unpopular with players. (EV)

Describes how Hillel, the largest Jewish student organization in the world, is retooling its image. Efforts are underway to appeal to Jewish students of all backgrounds, as well as to provide modern new buildings for the organization. (EV)

Many colleges use brochures to depict their institutions as diverse, but recent revelations of photo-doctoring raise broader questions about how student bodies are portrayed. (EV)

China's national leadership is committed to a vast upgrading of education, and the pervasive spirit of reform in economics and politics is leading to higher expectations of higher education. Reforms are targeted in the system's structure, deemphasis on specialization, new emphasis on applied science, and faculty qualifications and productivity. (MSE)

A study of long-term doctoral student persistence patterns at Cornell University (New York) indicates students are more likely to complete their degrees, and in less time, if they receive fellowships rather than research or teaching assistantships, especially if fellowships are awarded in the first year. (MSE)

Collaboration between schools and colleges, one of the most popular aspects of educational reform in recent years, now seems seriously threatened by inadequate funds, uncertain goals, and lack of broad participation by college teachers. Advocates of collaboration fear that their efforts could become just another idea that didn't work. (MSE)

Persistent state legislative interest in public college faculty workload is causing higher education advocates to redirect the debate to consistent measurement of faculty effort, relationship of cost and quality, and intrusion of management on faculty's professional autonomy. Faculty are participating more in the debate. (MSE)

A proposed revision in the American Bar Association's accrediting standards for law schools is coming under fire from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which says the proposal seems to require the schools to use racial preferences in hiring and admissions despite federal and state laws limiting such policies. Although a bar-association official denies such an intent, conservative groups opposed to racial preferences are threatening to sue the bar association if it adopts the proposal. The announcement of possible litigation comes in the wake of a contentious commission meeting to discuss the proposal and may signal the next phase of the debate over affirmative action in higher education.

Higher education in the People's Republic of China is discussed based on a tour of 15 universities that included formal interviews and informal discussions with Chinese-government officials, university administrators, faculty members, other educators, students, and journalists. (MLW)

Agencies in at least a dozen states are seeking information about college faculty workload, including number of student contact hours, reflecting concern about faculty productivity and quality of undergraduate teaching. The issue is considered delicate, but both internal and external pressure to account for faculty time and salaries are mounting. (MSE)

Robert J. Sternberg's research on cognitive style and model of "mental self-government" at all educational levels have led to a pilot elementary/secondary curriculum to help students develop common sense and practical judgment as well as intellect. The interinstitutional effort between Yale and Harvard universities includes Howard Gardner, known for his theory of multiple intelligences. (MSE)

Because of increased competition, widely publicized ratings, the declining population of traditional college-age students, and concern about perceived emphasis on scholarship rather than practical instruction, business administration schools are creating or turning to public relations offices to communicate with the press, public, and prospective donors about themselves. (MSE)

One-year and overall national trends in the scores of college-bound high school students on the American College Testing Program's (ACT) college entrance examination and on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are examined, and data on the ACT subtest score trends by sex and race and on the SAT subtest score trends by state are presented. (MSE)

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)

The court decision upholding a college faculty member's eligibility for a federal income tax deduction for a home office used for research because his institution did not provide suitable space is discussed. (MSE)

The role of the Holmes Group education deans in effecting the group's recommended reforms for teacher education is discussed along with issues raised by group members and colleagues about the financing and consequences of the proposed reforms. (MSE)

The Holmes Group, a committee of deans of education in several dozen large universities, have published a report urging major U.S. universities to provide leadership in reforming teacher education and the teaching profession. (MSE)

A teacher education policy is proposed by the education deans of 23 private and public universities to create an elite corps of elementary/secondary teachers rules out undergraduate education majors and requires a master's degree in education, a substantial internship, and in some cases, a specialized postgraduate degree. (MSE)

While recent reports on the improvement of college curricula and instructional quality have inspired higher education leaders, Wingspread conference participants see obstacles to reform in conflicts over accountability, campus-government relationships, and even the existence of a crisis in academe. (MSE)

The elimination of undergraduate teacher education programs at many institutions is discussed. However, leaders of colleges that offer undergraduate majors in education have reacted with disapproval to recent proposals that such programs be abolished in favor of graduate preparation of teachers. (MLW)

Support is reported for the proposals of the Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession for sweeping reforms of the public schools and the teaching profession, including rigorous national teacher certification, emphasis on liberal arts in teacher education and increased graduate study, and improvements in conditions of the profession. (MSE)

The National Education Association's response to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy proposals for school reform gives qualified support to suggestions for changes in teacher training and certification. (MSE)

Admissions officers are convinced that the Scholastic Aptitude Test offers at least a better clue than high school grades alone as to how well prospective students are likely to perform in their first year of college. Bias is seen as only one of many explanations for score differences among groups. (MLW)

A legislative proposal by the Association of American Universities calls for creation of a federal agency similar to the National Science Foundation to develop and promote a national policy of support for foreign language, area, and international studies research and instruction at colleges, universities, and other institutions. (MSE)

The Corporate Council on the Liberal Arts, a group of corporate executives having agreed that the liberal arts can provide better preparation for business careers than many people realize, has embarked on the difficult task of getting colleges and businesses to put that principle into practice. (MLW)

Foreign language teachers' organization leaders criticize the ideas and planning behind a privately-funded National Foreign Language Center, charging that: they were not adequately involved in its preparation, adult language education would be overemphasized, the funds could be used otherwise, and a tendency toward a single language education approach could result. (MSE)

A national study of assessment in American undergraduate education by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching concludes that the current debate over assessment does not adequately consider educational goals and reflects divisiveness within and between faculties. (MSE)

The president of the American Council on Education accused the Reagan Administration of encouraging unregulated pursuit of self-interest and diminishing the commitment to the overall social good by excessive support of national defense and decreased support of education. (MSE)

Responses are presented by the Soviet Union's Minister of Higher and Specialized Secondary Education to questions about proposed changes in the Soviet higher education system, the system's strengths and problems, Soviet perceptions of the American system, and efforts to encourage student and faculty initiative in academic planning and curricular reform. (MSE)

Declining involvement of American students and scholars overseas because of unstable currency exchange rates is causing concern at a time when American sophistication in international affairs is becoming more important to the nation's future. (MSE)

At a nine-day UNESCO-sponsored conference in Geneva, educational and political leaders, most from developing nations, called for an international campaign to make higher education a more effective tool for economic and social progress, urging the expansion of basic and vocational education. (MSE)