Key issues for higher education in the 1980s / Clark Kerr -- Responding to learning needs / K. Patricia Cross -- New constituencies for education / Frederic Jacobs -- Academic management : what it should be / Richard Chait -- Accountability information : progress, pitfalls, and potential / Ben Lawrence -- Private support for public higher education / Larry W. Jones -- Preventing the decline of American higher education / Kenneth H. Ashworth -- College graduates : educated but useless? / Thomas Stauffer -- Concluding comments and recommended readings / Larry W. Jones, Franz A. Nowothy.