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64 Brief 1 (1968-1969)

handle is hein.journals/briephid64 and id is 1 raw text is: 'I THE BRIEF Volume 64, Number 1 Fall, 1968 Who Should Run Higher Education? A Call for Discussion By Non-Student Groups By Joseph T. Sneed (Roberts '47) President, Association of American Law Schools, 1968* Higher education is confronted with many difficult prob- lems at the present time. It must accommodate increasing numbers of students, redesign curricula to relate more ef- fectively to rapid technological and institutional changes occurring within our society, develop new sources of fi- nancial support, erect new structures within and without the federal government by which the relationship of education to government can be made more effective and purposeful without inhibiting institutional independence, and consider alterations in its organizational structures in response to student demands. While each of these problems deserves thoughtful and extended treatment, it is the last to which I wish to address these remarks. Many universities in recent months have experienced the application of the techniques of protest politics by stu- dents to attain certain objecives which, in some instances, as for example withdrawal from Viet Nam, were beyond the power of the university to grant. Very frequently, how- ever, the demands concerned matters that were within the control of the university. Moreover, they often pertained to issues that traditionally had been determined without *Thc author is a Professor of Law at Stanford University. A graduate of the University of Texas Law School, he holds a S.J.D. degree from Harvard. He is a nationally known tax specialist and has been a member of the faculties of Texas and Cornell, as well as Stanford. He has served a term on the execu- tive committee of the AALS and as president-elect during 1967. Recently he was elected a director of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.