Learning Resources

Abstract: Over the past 40 years, the construction of many college and univeristy buildings have disrupted the aesthetic tradtiion and history of campus design. Institutions of higher learning must become better guardians of, as Thomas Jefferson said, "academical villages." Attractive campus architecture needs administrators, faculty, and alumni to monitor professional architects. Newer buildings must blend with their historical neighbors and integrate within the campus fabric. Universities must maintain three important elements to restore control of campus design: (1) a renewed sense of campus architecture's purpose, (2) a devotion to human scale, and (3) a sense of campus aesthetics. Additionally, three guidelines can preserve the values of the university campus: (1) recognition that the village-like atmosphere is an American creation, (2) guarding the campus environment as carefully as the faculty, and (3) a set of design guidelines. Examples of design guidelines include the fact that new buildings should be subordinate to surrounding space, a hierarchy of buildings based on size, discouragement of "signature" buildings, and the visual sensations of faculty and students that are a measure of design satisfaction. Colleges and universities must monitor and protect the beauty of campus architecture. To ignore its aesthetic value is to neglect the tradition and purpose of the "academic village."

Abstract: Book Review: Technology Transfer and the University, by Gary Matkin. National University Continuing Education Association and ACE/Macmillan, 1990. 329 pages.

Abstract: Book review: The Strategic Management of College Enrollments, by Don Hossler, John Bean, and Associates. Jossey-Bass, 1990. 300 pages.

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: Matters of life and death; What does it all mean?; A few lessons (noncollegiate); The courage to care, to build. Pull quotes: "Service to others is the rent each of us pays for living on this earth." "Our children are growing up in an ethically polluted nation." "Too many of us talk big and act small." "We must encourage science and math achievement as well as basketball and football, calculus as well as cotillions." "College students have a special obligation to lead."

Abstract: Book Review: Pension and Retirement Policicies in College and Universities, by The Commission on College Retirement. Jossey-Bass, 1990. 375 pages.