Criticizes the Carnegie Commission for failing to take sufficiently seriously the evidence that the American social and political fabric is badly torn. American colleges and universities are failing to create a common culture without which our future is dubious. (Editor)

Moving to graduate-level teacher preparation and intensive clinical training will not magically institutionalize the knowledge base in teacher education. Teacher educators need to embrace the Carnegie report's intellectual and professional approach to what teachers ought to know, and its endorsement of the legitimacy and significance of teacher…

Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Dunfermeline, Scotland. Forty-six years later and on his way to becoming $400 million richer, he returned to the home of his birth and provided it with a new kind of library. Unlike the popular subscription libraries of the time that required patrons to rent books, this new library would lend them for free. It…

A new Carnegie Foundation survey of faculty is discussed. Faculty attitudes toward their profession and their department morale, teaching, and their current position are reported, and general faculty characteristics are identified. (MLW)

Data presented are compiled from a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching survey on enrollment patterns in college majors and faculty distribution among subject fields. Questions raised by the results are noted. (MSE)

An Englishman who was impressed with the many accomplishments of the Carnegie Commission and was convinced that its recommendations will be useful guides for the future, worries that its focus was too narrowly pragmatic. (Editor)

Results of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's study of enrollment trends in veterinary medicine and dentistry are tabulated and analyzed, focusing on applicant pool trends, total enrollment and graduates, male and female representation, and minority group representation. (MSE)

Clark Kerr, the chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, conducted a conference concerning their first major report. The council's main thrusts in this report are universal access and maintenance of the research capacity of the universities. (Author/PG)

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's report on collegiate education, "College," is discussed by Ernest L. Boyer. The undergraduate experience and quality, college teaching, assessment, the quality of campus life, student development, and general education are discussed. (MLW)

Results of a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching national survey concerning the extent and reasons for college faculty's dissatisfaction with the teaching profession, working conditions, institutional climate and governance, and prospects for the future of the profession are reported. (MSE)

Nine higher education commission reports were examined as to quality of research and stated objectives in comparison with results. Surveyed assessment by 29 peer leaders indicated that only Carnegie Commission reports could be shown to have changed the law and others had limited effect. (LBH)

Charts compiled by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching show the pattern of support by foundations and how foundation support compares with support from the federal government. American foundations are seen as an important counterweight to government influence in higher education. (MLW)

In an interview with Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, some of his concerns and observations about the high school-college connection are described. The education and reeducation of teachers, curriculum, and flexibility of college admission are discussed. (MLW)

Reports on four case studies developed at The Carnegie Foundation as part of a larger inquiry into cultures of teaching in higher education today. Examines professorial careers that are being crafted around the scholarship of teaching and learning at doctoral and research universities. (EV)

Data on undergraduate, graduate, and professional school minority enrollment from 1976 to 1980, and from 1980 to 1984 were examined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Minority access declines have been experienced by blacks, and Hispanics remain the least represented in higher education. (MLW)