Learning Resources

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: 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: 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: How should higher education deal with the variability of genetic differences? Subtitles: How much are IQ differences inherited?; The fruits of meritocracy; Defining the Cognitive Classes; What is IQ?; Cognition and social behavior; Are some groups more intelligent?; What social policies are needed? Pull quotes: "Individual variability is the biological norm, and humans are no exception." "As society reduces barriers, genetic differences become more important." "Today's elite college and university students come from all strata and backgrounds." "The United States has increasingly become a meritocracy of intelligence." "IQ test are not culturally biased, as is often alleged." "There is little evidence that current programs have any long-lasting effects on IQ scores." "They claim U.S. education has been 'dumbed down." "The book points to the ironies of achieving a new society based more fully on intellectual merit."

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."