Learning Resources

Abstract: Book review: The Power of the Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions, by Winifred Gallagher. Harper Perennial, 1994. 240 pages. ISBN 0-06-097602-0

Abstract: Subtitles: Phooey on vision; The new demands; Vision's key ingredients; Misconceptions and fallacies; An emotional lever for change. Pull quotes: "Human beings have been provided with two kinds of vision." "The caretaker view of college leadership has become a perilous one." "How can a university decentralize and still have a coordinated effort?" "The vision must have a tangible outcome." "Colleges lack sufficient powers of social invention." "Visions speak to our entire selves.

Abstract: Book Review: Living Without a Goal, by James Ogilvy. Doubleday, 1995. 201 pages. ISBN 0-385-41799-3.

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: Reuniting the campus fragments; A more common touch. Pull quotes: "Course overlap is sanity itself compared with the absurdity of program duplication." "Imagine a campus that devoted one day a week to very large events."

Abstract: A primer for planners about higher education's "cost disease" and its future effects. Subtitles: Why the cost disease?; Can we afford higher education?; Reallocating national resources; The huge job of persuasion. Pull quotes: "The cost of American higher education has quadrupled over the 42-year period." "In higher education the nature of the products make their production a handicraft activity." "Personal services are condemned to slower productivity growth." "By 2040 education and health care alone could well absorb over half of the entire GNP." "Higher education is an example of the need for reconceived practices."

Abstract: Book review: Visions of the Future, by robert Heilbroner. Oxford university Press, 1995. 128 pages. ISBN 0-19-509074-8

Abstract: Book Review: Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the U.S. Air force Academy, edited by robert Bruegmann. University of Chicago press, 1995. 200 pages. ISBN 02326-07693-8

Abstract: Subtitles: Anatomy of benchmarking; The vital parts; How do colleges learn?; It's no one's responsibility; What's the corrective?; How does it work? Pull quotes: "Benchmarking is not a simple matter of visiting the finest competitors." "There are really two parts to benchmarking." "Universities can learn a great deal from the best non-educational enterprises." "It is most effective when performed by a team." "The first impression of a campus can have a powerful effect." "Faculty members tend to see money spent on campus grounds as a frivolous expenditure." "Newer campus plantings look like those around large suburban homes." "The campus landscape assessment is a different animal."F

Abstract: Campus planners can help architects by providing better guidelines for design. Subtitles: Function, not discipline; Designing with nature; Appearance is important; Pull quotes: "A thorough program is a mjaor factor in getting an outstanding new building." "We once rotated a building on its site some 10 feet." "A campus should not be a museum of idiosyncratic architectural expressions." "The program should let the architect know where the college stands."