The University in the 1990s: Crisis or Predicament?

The financial difficulties which our universities are currently encountering are not without precedent, as a brief retrospective look at conditions in the 1930s will attest. However, the "decision space " in which we must operate today is far more circumscribed than at any time in the past. External constraints continue to increase in number and severity; the contemporary academic culture has greatly weakened old institutional values and identities; and governance structures have become inordinately complex, cumbersome, and ill-adapted to deal with existing realities. In these circumstances, strident demands for "greater accountability " and "stronger leadership " cannot really be met. It is imperative that we not only address certain pressing problems but also identify several genuine system contradictions, which cannot be evaded and sooner or later must be resolved. Any credible agenda for renewal must be based on new paradigms of participation and models of governance, that will enable us to create patterns of decision-making far more suited to cope with emerging realities than the outmoded forms embedded in our current systems.Les problèmes financiers auxquels les universités sont présentement confrontées ne sont pas nouveaux comme une analyse rétrospective de la situation dans les années trente le démontrera. Cependant, "l'espace de décision" dans lequel chacun doit maintenant opérer est beaucoup plus circonscrit qu'il ne l'était dans le passé. Les contraintes provenant de l'externe augmentent continuellement en nombre et en intensité; la culture académique contemporaine a affaibli l'identité et les valeurs institutionnelles traditionnelles; et les structures de décision sont devenues excessivement complexes, lourdes et inadapteees aux réalités actuelles. Dans ces conditions, les demandes pressantes visant le renforcement des mécanismes de reddition de compte et le leadership ne peuvent être satisfaites. Il devient donc urgent de ne pas répondre seulement aux problèmes les plus pressants mais aussi d'identifier les contradictions systémiques qui tôt ou tard devront être confrontées et corrigées. Tout renouvellement, s'il veut être crédible, devra être axé sur de nouveaux modèles de participation et de gestion permettant de créer des modes nouveaux de décision mieux adaptés aux réalités modernes que les modèles traditionnels sur lesquels reposent toujours nos systèmes actuels

Treatment Of Hypercholesterolemia With Aluminum Nicotinate*†

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111193/1/j.1532-5415.1962.tb03157.x.pd

Supersonic transport lubrication system investigation Third semiannual report, 1 Nov. 1965 - 1 May 1966

Ball bearing and bellows face seals for supersonic aircraft gas turbine engine mainshafts tested with selected lubricants using oil-mist and jet lubrication system

A Study to Identify the Essential Furniture and Equipment Needed for Instructional Programs in Industrial Arts in Grades Seven and Eight in Texas Public Schools

The purpose of this study was to identify the essential furniture and equipment needed for instructional programs in industrial arts in grades seven and eight in Texas public schools. The study includes a brief history of federal and state legislation affecting industrial arts and vocational education. A checklist containing items of furniture and equipment applicable to each of the twelve approved areas of Introductory General Shop in grades seven and eight was sent to industrial arts teachers, supervisors of industrial arts in the pilot programs, and industrial arts teacher educators in Texas. Over 51 per cent of the respondents agreed that a majority of the items listed in the checklist were essential or desirable for instructional programs in industrial arts in grades seven and eight

Regulation of blood pressure: A cybernetic mechanism residing in the kidney?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/32288/1/0000355.pd

A Pilot Study Of Antihypertensive Therapy In Cerebrovascular Disease

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111248/1/j.1532-5415.1967.tb02802.x.pd

Observations on the potential variations of the cavities of the right side of the human heart

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The renin-angiotensin system in clinical medicine

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/32851/1/0000227.pd