Corporation as college

The Ph.D. program of the RAND Graduate School is one of the more innovative programs in America. The dynamics of innovation, e.g., environmental press as the engine of change and creativity as the wellspring of innovative programming, are illustrated vividly in the beginnings of the RAND corporation and its establishment of the RAND Graduate School to operate a free-standing Ph.D. program in policy analysis. Colleges and universities have much to learn-and nothing to fear-from this corporate newcomer to graduate education. Their own innovative efforts in graduate education can be enhanced through careful study of the RAND experience.     

The need for an American privacy protection commission

The article argues that the Privacy Act of 1974 requires revision during the 1980s to reflect more fully the challenges posed to personal privacy by new forms or applications of information technology. The revised Privacy Act should establish a permanent mechanism for the articulation of privacy interests at the federal level in the form of the kind of Privacy Protection Commission originally proposed in the Senate version of the Privacy Act of 1974. The appropriate characteristics of such a regulatory mechanism, and the consequences of not having such an agency at present, are discussed.