An International Perspective. Higher Education: Crisis and Support.

Overview & Synopsis

During a 3-week seminar in July 1973 at Aspen, Colorado designed to discuss the erosion of public support for higher education, presentations fell into the following categories: historical perspectives; access, higher education and employment; autonomy and systems; the professoriate; and research on higher education. Presentations included in this report discuss: the relation of higher education to society; access to higher education in Germany; access and public support; reflections on the relations between the occupational structure and higher educational systems; institutional autonomy and academic freedom; university autonomy, accountability and planning; the rise of educational systems; systems of higher education; the changing status of the Western European professoriate; the prestigious Eastern European professor; the American professor and the public; comparative research on higher education; and suggested future approaches to research on higher education. (MJM)