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The article presents the text of the higher education section of a task force report submitted to U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson on November 14, 1964. The report covers student assistance, graduate and professional education, college development, national training fellows. This section of the report formed the basis for the Higher Education Act of 1965.

The article provides a series of news briefs concerning higher education. The article reports that the University of Wisconsin will delay issuing grades for students who purchased term papers from a company that sold term papers. The article reports that California Governor Ronald Reagan has decreased the 12.5 percent salary increase of University of California faculty members to 7.5 percent; the increase had been approved by the state legislature.

The article reports that students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina have voted to continue using student fees to support the campus newspaper "Daily Tar Heel." The newspaper was accused of printing obscenities, left-wing editorials, and one-sided reporting. Meanwhile, the administration of Boston College, Massachusetts announced it would cease to function as publisher of the student newspaper "The Heights," which it accused of publishing offensive material.

The article provides an overview of trends in higher education in the U.S. for the next decade after 1969, based on the text of a paper by Ralph W. Tyler, director emeritus of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Tyler wrote a paper on "The Changing Structure of American Institutions of Higher Education," prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He cites indications of the increasing significance of the community and junior college in the future.

The article reports on mass higher education as a threat to academic standards. In a speech by U. S. Vice-President Spiro Theodore Agnew, he criticized open admission policies and urged colleges not to lower their standards. Fritz Machlup, professor of Princeton University gave his views on this issue in a paper at a recent conference sponsored by the Educational Testing Service. Excerpts on Machlup's paper are presented in the article.

The article reports on a pamphlet by the Academy of Education Development entitled "Higher Education with Fewer Teachers." The paper's timing is strange, as most disciplines are seeing a surplus of teachers. Though the paper's producers deny an agenda, the contents of the paper suggests that they favor higher student to teacher ratios.

The article is the third part in a series of papers about drug policy of universities and colleges in the U.S. Most college officials are now steering away from the hard-line approach for dealing with drug use. This is because it is difficult to search a student's room or property and drug arrests bring bad publicity to a campus.

The article discusses the order of University of Texas president B. H. Amstead to shred 1,300 copies of the campus newspaper "The Windmill". This is because the newspaper printed a letter that criticizes the board of regents of the university. The paper's editor, Joel Asbury, was fired.

The article reports on the regulations issued by the U.S. Veterans Administration that would restrict the operation of external degree program offered by Northwest Missouri State University and Elba Systems Corp. The program involves a combination of home-study lessons, once-a-month workshops in hotel rooms in various cities and a couple of term papers.

The article discusses the positive reactions to a paper that presented recommendations aiming to develop better methods in higher education teaching. The task force that presented the recommendations, headed by Stanford University's Frank Newman, suggested creating different types of postsecondary training and aiding students directly. The proposal, submitted to the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is expected to cause controversy and debate in academic circles.

The article presents a list of recently published books which are of interest to college teachers and administrators in the United States. These include "Academic Quicksand: Some Trends and Issues in Higher Education," by Gene A. Budig and Stanley G. Rives, "Educational Judgments: Papers in the Philosophy of Education," edited by James F. Doyle, and "Universities for All," by George Z. F. Bereday.

The article presents news concerning higher education in the United States. The University of Pittsburgh has joined other schools in using recycled paper in publications and press releases. Leland L. Medsker has resigned as director of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley.

The article reports on the urge for a unitary system in Southern Colleges. This system is being pushed to provide integration in the sense of cultural understanding. According to a staff paper being circulated among Southern educators, cooperation between traditionally black and traditionally white institutions are essential to the concept of a unitary system of higher education.

The article focuses on the proposal to establish a federal bank designed to finance long-term student loans for higher education in the U.S., as recommended in papers prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. The lending of money to students allows repayment in over 30 or 40 years at a fixed rate of their annual income. At present, alternatives to long-term federal aid that are being considered and debated include institutional and student aids.

The article presents an essay in which the author acknowledges that he has suffered through the liberalizing changes to higher education in silence but can no longer tolerate incorrect spelling. A students' comically misspelled paper on the "Odyssey" drove the author to stand up for the importance of spelling.

The article presents U.S. higher education news briefs. After continued student boycotts Emmett W. Bashful, the vice-president of Southern University in New Orleans, Louisiana declared his resignation. The article discusses the term-paper company Academic Market Place and the death of a Xavier University freshman.