Public Land Policy Is Ripe for Change

18 pages

Public Land Policy Is Ripe for Change

18 pages

Information-Age Populism: Higher Education as a Civic Learning Organization

Viewing higher education as an environment "ripe for change," Harry Boyte makes the case for colleges and universities to forsake their traditional bastions of cloistered scholarship to become "civic learning" organizations. Many faculty members are willing and able to pursue their interests in the public relevance of teaching and research. What is needed to undertake the democratization of the production and diffusion of knowledge, Boyte says in this report from the Council on Public Policy Education, is to stress the need for disciplines to interact across porous boundaries with the wider world

The European Union in International Affairs: Recent Developments

I have been invited to discuss the changing role of the European Union (or “EU”) in the world today. Let me start by highlighting some random examples of EU action in international affairs during 1997. As Europe continues to integrate domestically, it will be forced to reassess the image that it projects in the world. As it does so, institutional reform will become even more compelling if the European Union is to conduct the coherent external policy that most people in the world expect of it. Some had hoped that last the June 1997 Summit in Amsterdam would at least start to solve these institutional questions, but the heads of state and government decided that the time was not yet ripe for change. But it is only a matter of time before the myriad of challenges facing the European Union and its role in the world force the issue back onto the agenda

Change That Abides: A Retrospective Look at Five Community and Family Stengthening Projects and Their Enduring Results

Examines the interactions among funders, grantees, and community groups, and outlines the results of three different types of foundation grants for projects in Savannah, Little Rock, Dayton, Alameda County, and Boston. Includes recommendations

Strategic Sealift and National Security: Effects of a Declining Merchant Marine and Problematic MARAD-Administered Reserve Forces

Strategic sealift, the movement of cargo in support of deployed troops in an international conflict, relies primarily on a national asset--a National Defense Reserve Force, administered by MARAD, and a commercial asset--the US Merchant Marine. The decline of the merchant marine, along with the attendant decline and unmanageable nature of MARAD-administered forces, made sealift (which was once carried out simply by purchasing space on US carriers) the limiting factor in the successful execution of Operations DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. This decline is documented in a literature review. A nine case analysis of sealift performance, examining three scenarios at three times, is then presented. The analysis yields mixed results. In some cases sealift is sufficient, in others, it is not. The substandard cases point to areas ripe for change in policy or procurement

In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part IV: The Pirsig Years -- A Time of Transition

When Everett Fraser retired as Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School in June of 1948, he left to his successor a school ripe for change. The length and the strength of DeanFraser\u27s administration,togetherwith the dramaticeffects of World WarII on the size and atmosphereof the school, had stifled the articulation andresolutionofseveralproblems.In theyearsfollowingFraser\u27s retirement and the War\u27s conclusion, issues long muted began to surface and developments long postponed began to require atten- tion. Through his seven-year administration,the new dean, May- nard E. Pirsig,preserved the school\u27s traditionof excellence in its faculty and curriculum, while the groundwork was laid for the diffi- cult transitionto a new faculty-dean relationship.UnderDean Pir- sig\u27s direction,the law schoolmaintainedthe courseestablishedby his predecessorsin the continuingpursuit of excellence

Testimony of Jerome M. Rosow Before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations

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City, state and citizenship in South Africa: towards a normative approach

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 2nd September, 1991South African historiography is ripe for change. Since the emergence of revisionism in the 1960s, South African politics has been studied using certain hitherto unquestioned assumptions. The radical paradigm has been responsible for extraordinary insights in South African political and historical analysis; however, also it needs to be transcended in important ways. It is the aim of this paper to subject these assumptions to critical scrutiny, and to develop an alternative approach to the study of political phenomena in South Africa - an approach from the perspective of Apolitical morality'. To some extent, I will have to overstate my case - most notably by underplaying the important dynamics of conflict and coercion. I feel this is legitimate however, because these issues have occupied, unchallenged, the centre stage in political analysis in this country. After a review of the existing literature and some theoretical comments, I will apply the notion of Apolitical morality' to a specific historical context, viz. township administration in South African cities during the 1950s