Christian Critique of the University (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: A Christian Critique of the University by Charles Habib Malik. InterVarsity Press, 1982. 115 pages

Japan: A Way of Life (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Japan: A Way of Life, by Arnold H. DeGraaff, Jean Olthuis, and Anne Tuininga. Toronto, Canada: Joy in Learning Curriculum Development and Training Centre, 1980. 324 pages

A study of the Neurological Impress Method with Remedial Secondary Students

This paper presents a study of the Neurological Impress Method, with junior high students two or more years behind their expected Reading Comprehension level. Thirty students were randomly selected and placed into control and experimental groups by a random number process. These S\u27s received eighteen weeks of special treatment with either the N.I.M. or oral reading practice for the controls. Statistical analysis showed no significant difference between the Reading Comprehension gains of controls and experimentals. The gains of both controls and experimentals was, however, found to be of significance. Conclusions and recommendations included suggestions for additional research and a discussion of the importance of teacher attention

Bureaucracy, Demography, and Midwest Sociology

This article proposes a framework for analyzing the impact of social change on universities, using Midwestern states to flesh out the perspective. The framework draws together political, economic and, demographic changes by using the concept of bureaucratic organizations. More specifically, it uses the notions of the internal and the external environments of universities as organizations to examine the impact of societal change upon universities in general and, by extension, on sociologists’ knowledge. The internal environment is viewed as the administrative effort to rationalize the external and internal environments with programmatic changes. The central concerns here are financial control and privatization. To examine the external environment, the article includes demographic and economic data as well as the importance of for-profit higher education programs. Efforts to rationalize the university with the external environment have led to greatly increased use of contingent faculty and disturbing, even shocking, levels of student debt. The advantage of the framework lies in its ability to integrate diverse actors in higher education into the context of wider societal forces