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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 reports on the obscenities of college papers in the U.S. As reported, there were more than 10 attempts to censor suspected obscenities in school publications. One of the prime adversaries of censorship in campus newspapers is the College Press Service (CPS) which has roughly 300 campus subscribers. According to Susie Schmidt, CPS editor, that the service has no exact numbers of college papers which uses the uncut versions.

The article reports that no disciplinary action has been taken by five of the eight major universities in the Boston area, Massachusetts against students whose names were found on the customer lists of companies that were selling term papers. These institutions include Boston College, Harvard University, Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts.

The article highlights the initiatives of university administrators and faculty members in the United States against term-paper companies for alleged academic corruption. State legislatures have forced term-paper companies either to shut down or to change their practices. Some term-paper companies remained open and have altered their sales pitches and services.

The article reports that courts and state legislatures in the United States are challenging companies that prepare term papers for sale to students. In the lower house of the legislature in California, a bill prohibiting the sale of term papers to students was defeated. Opponents of the bill argued that the sale of term papers infringed on academic freedom.

The article reports on the obscenities found in the publications of students which led to censorship threats in the U.S. The main opponents of censorship is the College Press Service (CPS), which has about 300 subscribers. Originally, CPS articles concerned on meetings of groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society. Now, the paper releases stories about censorship which include censored words. Other obscene papers also include "The Daily Cardinal."

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 developments in the student press in the U.S. An edition of the campus newspaper of Detroit's Wayne State University contained articles on sorority rushing and campus festival activities and campus festival activities. "The Paper," an off-campus newspaper edited by Michigan State University students and drop-outs, includes a comic strip entitled "Land-Grant Man." More than 100 named underground newspapers have sprung up across the country.

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that a state university cannot expel students for distributing offensive publications on campus. The decision reversed lower court rulings that had upheld the expulsion in 1969 of a University of Missouri for distributing an underground newspaper. Plaintiff Barbara Susan Papish should be reinstated in the graduate journalism program unless she is banned from reinstatement for valid academic reasons.

This article discusses the "Courses by Newspaper" experiment. The experiment, launching in 1973, features a series of essays by prominent scholars, designed to appear in 250 newspapers across the United States. Readers of the essays can earn credit at over two hundred U.S. colleges and universities.

The article focuses on the student newspapers in eight campuses that have printed advertisements for abortion counselling and referral services. Some of the newspapers were ordered to stop the printing of the advertisements by the school administration. One of the newspapers ordered to stop printing was "The Concordian" of Concordia College in Minnesota. However, some student newspapers continued to print the advertisement.

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 reports that student editors of different universities in the U.S. are working together to fight the attempts of college administrators and governing boards to increase their control over student publications. According to Nellie Jo Lee, a staff member of the U.S. Student Press Association, campus papers in the state are uniting when one paper is threatened. She added that one example of this is displayed by five papers in Massachusetts where they got together to support "Cycle."

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 a paper on universities by Calvin B.T. Lee, assistant director of the United States Office of Education's college support division. Lee asserted that universities are overextending themselves by trying to achieve so many goals in their efforts to obtain grants. In the process, they are losing their focus and their main goal, which is student development. Lee will present his paper at the 50th annual meeting of the American Council on Education.

The article reports on key controversies pertaining to the financial status of private universities in the United States citing a slowdown in the increase in compensation levels for their faculty members, according to a paper released by Committee Z of the American Association of University Professors. The paper was based on a self-grading survey of 936 institutions which showed the lowest rate of percentage increase of 12.1 percent in the average compensation for full professors, compared to other universities and liberal arts colleges.

The article discusses the use of television in education in the United States. Some large universities began to televise undergraduate courses in 1950's for students who could not be fitted into the classroom. Now, even on campuses, students have video taping equipment and they submit "video term papers" in place of the written ones. INSET: TV Equipment: Relatively Cheap and Not Hard to Understand.

The article focuses on a meeting of scholars to address issues in the preparation of the papers of important black Americans for publication. The quantity of the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington were a challenge to the editors. They were evaluated for their contribution to black American history.

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 reports that the publication of the Pentagon Papers has ignited a renewed interest among scholars in the question of access to government documents in the United States. This was one of the major issues of debate at an annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Daniel Ellsberg, who is under indictment for releasing the secret government history of U.S. participation in Vietnam to the press, appeared at one session.

The article presents a paper by Marvin Rintala of Boston College and John Dreijmanis at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in the U.S. which shows that labor market for political scientists had been virtually untouched by scholarly inquiry. It points out that recruitment of faculty is still on a highly personal basis.

The article reports on the plans of student editors and members of the United States Student Press Association to encourage campus papers to free themselves financially and editorially from college and university administrations. The organization has also made proposals for their Collegiate Press Service to enlarge its staff and become more aggressive in news gathering.

The article reports on the criticisms made against federal financial social research in the United States based on a paper released by Representative Henry S. Reuss, chairman of the Subcommittee on Research and Technical Programs which conducted the study. The study claimed that too much of the federally sponsored research has been done separate from issues actually confronting the citizen and society. Most of the research have been deemed trivial, irrelevant, usable and valuable but not used.

The article reports on the feelings of resentment, doubt and frustration by junior college teachers in the United States based on the paper "Junior College Faculty: Issues and Problems," conducted by Roger H. Garrison former vice president of Briarcliff College in New York. Key proposals to resolve such issues include the creation of a national job clearinghouse to match positions and applications and a dialogue among junior college faculty members.

This article looks at news from a variety of college campuses throughout the United States. The article discusses a court case in which a judge agreed to a request by Boston University for a preliminary injunction to keep several Boston, Massachusetts-area companies from selling term papers to college students.

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 reports that two scholars have denied the charges that they had set any precedents for U.S. President Richard Nixon's $576,000 tax deduction for giving his Vice-Presidential papers to the National Archives. Later the White Houses reported that it had been misinformed about tax deductions of Jerome H. Wiesner, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts (MIT), and Nixon apologized his mention of MIT president.

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 reports on the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare's plan to continue withholding funds for social programs. According to department papers made public by the UPI news service, only enough money to maintain staff will be granted for the programs until Congress and the President agree on the budget for fiscal 1974.

The article highlights the need for colleges and universities to increase tuition and improve management, based on a paper on financing higher education prepared by two partners of an accounting firm in New York. Authors, Philip J. Taylor and Granville K. Thompson say that the percentage of revenues received by colleges and universities from gifts and contributions has been declining since 1960.

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 reports on the introduction of student portfolios at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. Student portfolios are introduced as a replacement for traditional letter grades. The portfolios include examples of a student's academic work along with evaluations by faculty. Contents of the portfolio will include research papers, tests, critiques of artistic performances, and record of extracurricular activities.

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 Harvard University faculty council's adoption of a resolution urging the federal government to exercise restraint in subjecting scholars to questioning before grand juries in the U.S. Samuel L. Popkin, member of the department of government, questioned by the federal grand jury investigating the leak of the Pentagon Papers to the press.

The article focuses on United States former president Lyndon B. Johnson's message during a symposium marking the opening of his Administration's education papers to the public in the United States. Johnson stated that higher education could gain increased financial support only if greater unity comes to the campuses. He called for a union between students and the faculty and a much better understanding between them.

The article reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has ruled that the student newspaper at Columbia University need not forfeit its tax-exempt status even though it published editorials supporting three candidates for political office. According to the IRS, the paper did not violate rules that prohibit tax-exempt educational organizations from distributing statements in support of political candidates.

Information about several papers discussed during the American Library Association convention in the U.S. are presented. The convention tackles on the failure of undergraduate libraries of universities to provide personal assistance to students with reference questions. According Billy R. Wilkinson, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University's school of library service, trained reference librarians are reaching few students and sometimes provide poor service.

The article reports on the growing cases of school protests in different colleges and universities in the U.S. The Urban Research Corp. found that campus protests occurred at rate of one per day in 1970. The survey was based on the gathered statistics in newspapers, including campus and underground papers. Furthermore, major protests occurred at the University of Michigan and Washington University in St. Louis as the survey was released.

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 reports on the attendance of more than 40,000 academic men and women to association meetings to hear the results of another year of scholarships and analyze the latest international, national and campus crises in the U.S. 15,000 people are expected for the sessions of the Modern Language Association in New York City. 8,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will hear more than 1,500 papers in Dallas,Texas.

The article reports that the National Student Association has started its publication "College Law Bulletin" which will tackle on court decisions concerning student rights in the U.S. The paper is designed to help students in using legal methods to deal with administrators and civil authorities. It will also discuss new laws, undecided legislation and cases, and legal articles.

The article highlights criticisms against charitable foundations in the United States by Representative Wright Patman, citing their operations and level of spending as of 1968, based on the paper "Tax-Exempt Foundations and Charitable Trusts: Their Impact on Our Economy." Key charges made against foundations include the small amount that they spend on grants and the allegations that foundations have become multimillion-dollar shelters from anti-trust laws.

The article characterizes an ideal beginning graduate student in political science in the United States, based on a paper by William Buchanan of Washington and Lee University presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. An ideal beginning graduate student in political science must fulfill language requirements with French or German, must undertake some independent research project and must maintain a high B average, among other things.

The article reports on the increase in Judaic studies in nondenominational colleges in the United States during the 20 year period since the end of World War II, according to the 67th annual edition of the American Jewish Year Book published by the American Jewish Committee. The paper was prepared by Arnold J. Band, associate professor of Hebrew at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The article highlights developments in higher education policy and legislation in the United States which were discussed during scholarly society meetings in 1967. Papers were presented which outlined problems and offered solutions regarding academic specialties, most of which have significance to higher education.

The article announces the issuance of a paper by Representative Wright Patman which characterizes foundations as one of the most powerful economic and propaganda forces in modern times, which are virtually unregulated by the federal government in the United States. Further, Patman accuses foundations of giving less than half of their receipts to charity during the period 1961 through 1964.

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.

The article presents educational news briefs. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to delay a judgment against Harvard University assistant political science professor Samuel L. Popkin for refusing to answer questions about the release of the Pentagon Papers. The article discusses the investigation into allegations that the U.S. Office of Education was subject to political influence in making contracts and grants for education projects.

This article provides news briefs related to U.S. colleges and universities. Hanover College has dropped charges that a New York investment banking firm mismanaged its endowment fund. Boston University and the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston have filed separate suits seeking to stop the sale of term papers to students in the area. A 6.5% decline in enrollment at Mankato State College may force the college to eliminate about 70 faculty and administrative positions over the next two years.