Learning Resources

Abstract: Should we prefer standardized tests or high standards for everyone? Subtitles: A choice of intelligences; Those intelligence tests; How universities select the cognitive elite; Troubles in the methodology; Ethnicity, IQ, and social policy. Pull quotes: "Perhaps the most important social trend is the growing establishment of a new class." "Rating human intelligence is complex.: "People with lower IQ's are more likely to experience the greatest problems." "Only 10 percent of the 1952 entering class at Harvard would be competitive in the admissions process today." "It is peculiar how their fetish for the normal distribution is suspended when defining dependent variables other than IQ." "Is the cognitive elite among African Americans also attending college...and living a better life?" "What should the nation's policies be toward individuals and groups who rate at various points throughout the distribution?"

Abstract: Book Review: Realizing the Educational Potential of Residence Halls, by Charles Schroeder and Phyllis Mable. Jossey-Bass, 1994. 319 pages. ISBN 0-7879-0018-4.

Abstract: The number of borrowers and the amount of the loans are both growing. What should education planners do? Subtitles: The explosion in borrowing; Should educators worry?; But what about the future?; Possible assistance. Pull quotes: "Some colleges are now giving back one-third of their tuition revenue to students." "Debt for graduate and professional school study is growing." "Some borrowers will still be paying when it is time for their own children to go to college." "The way that students pay for higher education is going through significant changes."

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: Recreate, not restore; Digging into the structure. Pull quotes: "The economics of being a professor have changed." "Liberal education cannot return to the past." "Colleges may need to experiment with two kinds of tenure."

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."

Abstract: Subtitles: The book's reception; Watchdogs and escaping cats; Down at the roots; Reification or reality?; Are there several intelligences?; Genes versus the environment; America's new class structure; And in closing... Pull quotes: "Equality of opportunity is creating a radically new class structure." " what I find most revealing is the almost uniform rejection of the book's findings." "The Bell Curve has exposed a mighty clash between two great paradigms." "As the number of items increases something truly remarkable happens." "Far more than social background, IQ determines which youths will never receive a high school diploma." "Colleges now identify and select the best minds for high positions."

Abstract: Book review: The Contemplative Practitioner: Meditation in Education and the Professions, by John Miller. Bergin & Harvey. 161 pages. ISBN 0-89789-401-4.

Abstract: Book review: organizational and Technologiacl Startegies for Higher Education in the Information Age, by David Ernst, Richard Katz, and John Sack. CAUSE Professional Paper Series, No. 13, 1995. 25 pages.

Abstract: Book review: The Art and Politics of College teaching, edited by R. McLaran Sawyer, Keith Prichard, adn Karl Hostetler. Peter Lang, 1992. 344 pages. ISBN 0-8204-1684-3 The New Faculty Memeber: Supporting and Fostering Professional Development, by Robert Boice. Jossey-Bass, 1993. 364 pages. ISBN 1-5542-423-6. University Politics: F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician, by Gordon Johnson. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 112 pages. ISBN 0-521-46919-8.