Academic activities undertaken during 1981-1982 by member countries of the Organization of Educational Cooperation and Development are reported in 21 articles. The following topics are addressed: higher education in the international age, curriculum and teaching, reforms and innovations, open universities and adult education, and higher education during financially difficult times. Titles and authors include the following: "The Role of the University in International Understanding" (Michio Nagai); "Who Owns the University Curriculum?" (A. H. Halsey); "Pilot Institutes for Higher Education Reform in Korea" (Jeung Rhee); "Innovations in American Higher Education: Curriculum and Teaching" (Philip G. Altbach); "Improvements in College Teaching in the United Kingdom" (Roy Joseph Cox);"Reforms in Chinese Higher Education" (Cheng Su); "Innovation of Higher Education in Japan: The Case of the University of Tsukuba" (Sho Takakura); "Sukhothai Thammathirat--Thailand's Open University" (Iam Chaya Ngam); "Adult Learning in Japanese Higher Education" (Masakazu Yano); "Japanese Higher Education in an Age of Financial Difficulties" (Morikazu Ushiogi); and "Higher Education in the Age of Financial Difficulties" (Paul L. Dressel). (SW)