Learning Resources

Abstract: Examines traditional notions of the campus as a physical place, and considers how those notions must be reexamined in light of the movement towards an increasingly virtual campus. Challenges institutions to recognize the value and importance of a sense of place consistent with the development of both the physical and virtual campuses. Such a sense of place, the author contends, is central to fostering a learning community.

Abstract: This article describes the administrative challenge that directors of distance learning programs have to face throughout the United States. It outlines the confusion and problems that exsit with the lack of a singular vision for distance learning. Several distance learning models presented with recommendations.

Abstract: We tend to ecpect the new technology to promote economic prosperty and a more democratic society. However, there is no evidence that it improves the economic productivity of society as a whole, and neither is it socially inclusive. Higher eduction cannot afford to be a s profligate with its resource as the industrial world has proved to be, but it can support progress. It has the twin responsiblities of (1) achieving the potential of learning technologies for the way it conducts its core business and (2) playing iots role as the engine of a learning society.

Abstract: A review of some seventeen years of administrative practice is shared from a strategic planning perspective as influenced by the writings of Keller and the expectations of the institutional effectiveness movement. The position is taken that strategic and operational planning must be integrally related, and that one can not have one without the other.

Abstract: Book Review of Campus Planning and Facility Development: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 3d ed., by Ira Fink and Associates, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-885575-05-X

Abstract: Book Review of Collegial Professionalism: The Academy, Individualism, and the Common Good, by John B. Bennett. Oryx Press, 1998. 193 pages. ISBN 1-57356-093-6.

Abstract: The history of campus development illustrates the essential role that the physical environment of insitutions plays in the learning experience. The imperatives for institutions in the new millenium is to restore the sense of place and community. These ase three global driving the imperative -the resolution of communication technology, the influence of diversity and globalization, and the impact of "homogenization: of the built environment in America.

Abstract: Since 1968 Messiah College, a small liberal arts college in Grantham, Pennsylvania, has operated a satellite campus in Philadelphia adjacent to in cooperation with Temple University. The urban satellite brings together the opportunities offered by a small community of scholars and the educational context of a major state university. The progam offers a vaible model linking two distinct types of campuses and locations: the program also provides a model for developing approaches to education which encourages students to cross demographic and cultural boundaires to study in settings which ofetn are considerably different from those to which they are accustomed.

Abstract: This case study describes the proces used at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee (UWM) to develop a budget for maintaining general assignment classrooms that are centrally controlled and scheduled. The genesis of the problem with general assignment clasrooms is framed within the context of the "Tragedy of the Commons" described by Peter Senge in The Fifth Dimension. At UWM this resulted in the gradual deterioration of the quality iof the general assigenment classrooms and a corresponding backlog of deferred maintenance items. To redres the situation, the Provost's Office assumed "ownership" of the general assignment classrooms and became an advocate for them in the budget process. To ensure appropriate maintenance of both the spce and equipment in the general assigenment classrooms, we developed a maintenance budget using a simple depreciation model applied to a wide array of assest in the classrooms. We also did a separate financial analysis to determine how this budget should change as we deploy sophisticated instructional technologies in our general assignment classrooms. The methods we used in this analysis can be used by other colleges and universities seeking a better understanding of the costs of maintaining bothe the general physical enviroment and the instructional technology in classrooms.

Abstract: Book Review of When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student, by Arther Levine and Jeanette S. Cureton. Jossey-Bass, 1998. 200 pages. ISBN 0--7879-3877-7.