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6. Funding and Control: Critical Choices for Community Colleges

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Johnston, J. Richard

Abstract

Competition for public revenues will force colleges to establish priorities regarding social roles, curriculum, students, kinds of community service, tuition, and financial policies. Struggle to control policy by faculty, administration, local and state agencies is discussed. (RT)

Published
1977

7. Community Colleges: Alternative to Elitism in Higher Education.

Author

Johnston, J. Richard

Abstract

Reviews charges that community colleges seek to "cool out" low ability students, perpetuate class structure, train paraprofessionals at public expense for private profit, and shepherd unemployed youth. Proposes an alternative system of postsecondary institutions and employers to provide remedial, general, and vocational education through nontraditional means. (GB)

Published
1980
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8. Student Revolt and Social Revolution

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Johnston, J. Richard

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Even if the Vietnam War ends, the student revolt will go on as "the dominant instrument of social change rooted in history, a power base on campus, and recruiting ground among students and ghetto youth. (Author)

Published
1970

9. Jean Mace and the Fight for Public Education in Nineteenth Century France

Author

Johnston, J. Richard

Abstract

The large part played in French social reform by John Mace in implementing compulsory public education was congruent with his belief in the democratic principles of the French Revolution. These principles held that the whole store of human knowledge was a legacy everyone should share; and that the function of education was to bring the cultural heritage into sympathetic contact with the life and times of each generation. (Author/JH)

Published
1972

11. UNIVERSITY GOVERNMENT AND THE TEACH-INS.

Author

Johnston, J. Richard

Subjects
INTELLECTUAL cooperation, EDUCATIONAL cooperation, EDUCATIONAL exchanges, INTERNATIONAL relations, COMMUNITY & college, UNIVERSITY cooperation, EDUCATIONAL sociology, EDUCATION, TEACHERS
Abstract

The article offers information about the role of the academic community in the effective implementation of foreign policy in the U.S. The controversy on foreign policy in the country highlights a condition of stress growing increasingly acute in the academic community. However, before the academic community can become a critical public applying an effective strategy of protest, professors and students will need a strong voice in the government of the university. The teach-ins represent a challenge to fundamental tenets of an economic system.

Published
1966
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