The development and outcomes of recent state efforts in California to limit adult education growth in the community colleges are examined. Although the resulting legislation curtailed further expansion of adult education, institutional pressure and continued public support prevented substantial reductions. (Author/LBH)

Based on an analysis of responses from baccalaureate programs evaluating life experiences, a basis for a student fee system is developed, and the cost implications of alternative processes are explored. Practices at several institutions are reported. (Author/LBH)

Careful attention to the organization and management of student services is necessary to the contemporary university to deal effectively with retention, student consumer interests, budget constraints, and shrinking admissions pools. A model is described that places responsibility on both academic units and central resources. (Author/LBH)

Learning counseling is described as a small group, academically-oriented counseling process. The results of studies indicate that learning counseling is a viable support service that helps students interact more effectively with their learning materials and adapt to different learning environments. (Author/LBH)

The response of faculty and department to dramatic increases in black student enrollment is explored. Faculty background, characteristics, attitudes, contact, and climate of the department are related to the self-reported ways in which faculty have altered teaching, curriculum, and personal interaction with blacks, and their commitment to…

A comparison of salary and rank by sex at a major institution before and after initiation of an approved affirmative action program suggests that required programs are more costly than effective. Rather than the current regulatory approach, federal incentives and greater attention to results than procedures are recommended. (Author/LBH)

A three-phase salary review process conducted at one university is used to illustrate issues involved in determining salary equity. It describes salary policies, determining possible discrimination due to minority group status and determining salary adjustments of individual faculty in the minority group being discriminated against. (Author/LBH)

Study indicates that revolutionary changes in governance procedures will not develop from administrative or court interpretations of bargaining statutes. The major change will derive from case-by-case decisions that will fracture faculty authority and expand negotiations into permissive areas. (Author/LBH)

The impact of bargaining unit heterogeneity on union membership and grievance activity in the SUNY system is examined. SUNY university centers exhibit low union membership relative to two- and four-year colleges. The former also resolve fewer step-two grievances than the two-year technical institutes and four-year liberal arts colleges.…

The reasons underlying the "failure" of a management information and planning system at a unit of a large urban university system are examined. The problems experienced include the level of expectations, methodology of implementation, and degree of commitment or perceived self-interest. The factors relate to human rather than technological aspects…

Intellectualism and impersonalism are seen as making many academic activities miseducative. It is advocated that academics organize curricular and extracurricular activities to direct students toward an understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. [This issue commemorates JHE's 50th year. Reprints of notable articles (HE 511…

College diplomas are seen as not necessarily representing academic achievement, but the fact that a student has sat through enough courses to accumulate sufficient credits for graduation. A case is made for 10 measures of achievement to serve as a basis for graduation. (Article originally published in 1937.) (AF)

It is suggested that the value of education is due to student life more than to college instruction. Samplings of studies of college life are delineated for the validity of student traditions as a field of research, and the aid of sociologists and anthropologists is solicited. (Article originally published in 1935.) (AF)

Some major circumstances that require the development of new curriculum models are briefly discussed, and a statement of what a curriculum model must include to be viable is presented. (Article originally published in 1965.) (AF)

Extracts from the recent flood of criticism of the American college and university are presented from a wide variety of sources. Topics of criticism include faculty, students, curriculum, athletics, teaching methods, alumni, and college aims. (Article originally published in 1934.) (AF)