Learning Resources

Abstract: The author reflects on changes in legal standards and political support for affirmative action, and urges reconsideration of campus affirmative action policies and programs. Reviews recent federal court decisions, tracks how public opinion and demographics have shifted in the last thirty years, and proposes that campus affirmative action programs should address one of three goals: remedying past discrimination, expanding diversity, or promoting social justice.

Abstract: Book review: The Law of Higher Education, third edition, by William Kaplin and Barbara Lee. Jossey-Bass, 1995. 1056 pages. ISBN 0-7879-0052-4.

Abstract: Book review: The Nondesigner's Design Book: Design and typographic Principles for the Visual Novice, by Robin Williams. Peachpit Press, 1994. 144 pages. ISBN 1-56609-159-4.

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: 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: 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: Book Review: Living Without a Goal, by James Ogilvy. Doubleday, 1995. 201 pages. ISBN 0-385-41799-3.

Abstract: Book review: The Power of the Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions, by Winifred Gallagher. Harper Perennial, 1994. 240 pages. ISBN 0-06-097602-0

Abstract: Book review: Visions of the Future, by robert Heilbroner. Oxford university Press, 1995. 128 pages. ISBN 0-19-509074-8

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."