Learning Resources

Abstract: Contends that new technologies demand we rethink traditional campus roles and responsibilities, and especially how we evaluate them for accreditation purposes. Current accreditation criteria reflect the values and structure of the residential campus, but are inadequate for evaluating an electronic one. Warns against allowing accreditation to impede meaningful change, nor permitting change to disassociate from an adequate accreditation process. Examines ways in which both institutions and accrediting bodies can adapt new standards and tools for evaluation.

Abstract: Book reviews of The Case for Tenure, eidted by Matthew W. Finkin. Cornell University Press, 1996. 211 pages ISBN 0-8014-3316-9. (and) New Pathways: Faculty Careers and Employment for the 21st Century. American Association for Higher Education: Alternatives to Tenure for the Next Generation of Academic, Inquiry # 14, by David Breneman. 1997. 16 pages; Academic Freedom Without Tenure?, Inquiry #5, by J. Peter Byrne. 1997. 17 pages; Off the Tenure Track: Six Models for Full-Time, Nontenurable Appointments, Inquiry #10, by Judith Gappa. 36. Pull quotes: "Higher education institutions in recent years have hired an increased number of faculty in positions not eligible for tenure and fewer faculty in positions that will lead to tenure." "The broader society will largely decide the future of tenure."

Abstract: Article It takes external pressures and internal leadership to energize integrated planning.

Abstract: Book review of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance, edited by William Tierney. Johns Hopkins University Presss, 1998. 172 pages. ISBN 0-8018-5715-5. Pull quotes: "If the power of academic departments is weakened and numerous deans and vice presidents are 'eliminated,' who will restructure the institution and reallocate resources, and how?"

Abstract: Book review of Strategic Choices for the Academy: How Demand for Lifelong Learning Will Re-Create Higher Education, by Daniel James Rowley, Herman D. Lujan, and Micheal G. Dolence. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998. 309 pages. ISBN 0-7879-4067-4. Pull quotes: "Higher education must focus more broadly on educating a much larger percentage of the population to prepare our society and economy to survive in a global economy."

Abstract: Book review of Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era, by Wendell Bell. Two volumes. Transaction Publishers, 1997. Volume 1: 365 pages, ISBN 1-56000-271-9. Volume 2: 371 pages, ISBN 1-5000-281-6. Pull quotes: "By imagining and forecasting possible futures for higher education, we tend to be freer to discover important possibilities and prepare for strategic actions." "Among the paradigmatic shifts in thought and research in the past several decades has been the elevation of concern about the future to a position approaching equality with concern about the past."

Abstract: Book review for Information Architects, by Richard Saul Wurman, edited by Peter Bradford. Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997. 235 pages ISBN 1-888001-38-0. Pull quotes: "Information architects design ways for us to see the patterns underneath all the information fragments." "Many people in higher education find that the management and understanding of electronic information resources is an enlarging challenge."

Abstract: Book review of The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education, by Micheal McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro. Princeton University Press, 1997. 161 pages. ISBN 0-691-05783-4. Pull quotes: "Merit aid (properly done) for the more gifted college applicants sends a badly needed signal to the high schools that young people who study hard, develop a talent, and learn a lot can look forward to tangible rewards."

Abstract: Examines educational practices that depend on new technologies and considers how those practices are shaping the way we think about what it means to educate. Also assesses how planning is impacted as a result. Explains how a campus might integrate new technologies into its existing modes of educational services delivery, resulting in a more comprehensive, "technologically responsive" institution.

Abstract: Book review for Lifelong Learning: New Visions, Implications, and Roles, by Norman Longworth and W. Keith Davies. Kogan Page (London), 1996. 174 pages. ISBN 0-7494-1972-5. Pull quotes: "The 21st century will be 'the learning century.'" "Lifelong learning, rather than just university learning early in one's life, will become more important."