The Governance of the Universities I

• Published in: Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 1969-10, Vol.98 (4), p.1030-1091
• Main Authors: Bell, Daniel, Brademas, John, Conway, Jill, Duberman, Martin, Glaser, Robert J., Graubard, Stephen R., Gray, Hanna H., Kaysen, Carl, Levi, Edward H., Meyerson, Martin, Morison, Robert S., Parsons, Talcott, Payne, Bruce L., Riesman, David, Rudenstine, Neil R., Stolz, Preble, Wax, David M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Change/Changes; College instruction; College students; Colleges; Communities; Content/Contents; Education/Educational/Educator/ Educators/ Educationally; Function/Functions/Functional/ Functionalism/ Functionalist/ Functionalists; Graduate students; Higher education; Role/Roles; School campuses; Social; Social sciences; Teachers; Universities; University/Universities; Value/Values/Valuation/ Valuations
• ISSN: 0011-5266; 1548-6192

Selections from the 1st of 2 symposiums held in 1968 & 1969 at the House of the Amer Academy of Arts & Sci's, Boston, on the problems of higher educ. Participants were D. Bell, J. Brademas, J. Conway, M. Duberman, R. J. Glaser, S. R. Graubard, H. H. Gray, C. Kaysen, E. H. Levi, M. Meyerson, R. S. Morison, T. Parsons, B. L. Panyne, D. Reisman, N. R. Rudenstine, P. Stolz, & D. M. Wax. The discussion ranged over the following topics: The role & function of the U, the reactions, att's & commitments of graduate students & graduate assistants to the U, the origins of the present situation of the U, the control of U educ, the academic role falsely conceived of as the sole way of learning, the distinction between the search for identity & the search for educ, the question of whether the U can be both integrative & adaptive, a transmitter of the soc values of a culture & an innovative agent for radical change, the teacher as a model, the mythologization of the professor, adequacy or inadequacy of the U to meet the students' needs. The financial & demograhpic problems of U teaching, the quality of teaching, the gap between rhetoric & reality, the students' search for community, the Negroes in the cities, models & heroes for the structure & the professors' frequent failure to provide them, the integrity of U instit's, the cause for student discontent, the weight which should or should not be placed on Students' opinions re the quality of U educ, student participation, the basic failure of student-faculty relationships, U's as oligarchies, gov involvement in the U's, the financial problems of small U's, the possibility of legislation supporting higher educ & the ways of doing this, & the need to plan for U educ & instit's. M. Maxfield.