NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION.

The article focuses on developments in higher education. Despite the criticisms one hears these days about higher education's resistance to change, there is good evidence, as one studies recent developments in higher education, that more changes are taking place in colleges and universities today than at any other time in the nation's history. Some involve new organizational and structural use of the college as in the plans now underway for the establishment of small colleges within the large university and in the use of the residence hall as a center for learning as well as living. Some of the changes center on new methodologies for instruction as in the uses now being made of independent study and new media and technology. Some deal with curricular reform as in the efforts now underway to develop more effective programs of interdisciplinary studies and some of the changes deal with such long-standing concerns as the development of special programs for the disadvantaged student and the problem of education for world affairs. The paper reviews some of these developments.