Learning Resources

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."

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.