The prevailing student mood at Yale is one of academic intensity to insure professional careers by acceptance in law or medical school. This grim professionalism is regarded by many as a threat to the ideal college experience of adventurous academic and extracurricular life. (Author/PG)

From a value study, three changes are relevant to educators: (1) high school graduates who have ended their formal education are the most disaffected of today's youth; (2) college students' interests are career planning and self-fulfillment; (3) a merger between campus values and careers is being pursued by college students. (Author/PG)

The rise of interest in vocational education represents a new individualism that may carry serious implications for academic life. (Editor)

Discusses the increasing numbers of African Americans who are both attending graduate school and planning on academic careers. Suggests that academia will profit in many ways from this trend, noting that African American scholars are resisting labeling, finding arenas of research that resist racial categories, and desire a mandate for…

Faculty jobs have a remarkable degree of freedom compared to other jobs, but they have comparatively low salaries. The income difference between academic employment and employment in corporations, law firms, and medicine causes morale problems in faculties. (MLW)

Faculty members of America's universities and colleges, it is suggested, are finding the real world of academic life increasingly out of tune with the careers they prepared for. Seven faculty members are profiled whose careers illustrate difficulties academics may face at several stages of their lives. (MLW)

The large increases in journalism school enrollments are reported and accompanying problems in student writing ability examined. Faculty members who would like to polish writing styles are being misused in spending time correctly basic errors in syntax and spelling. (Author/LBH)

To determine the increasing impact of the academic job shortage on humanities doctoral students, the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) surveyed current humanities students and older graduates. Implications are addressed and a recommendation is made--that humanities students be made aware of the variety of programs and options available to…

Four new books typify the constructive search for ways to improve the quality of undergraduate education. "Achieving Educational Excellence" (Alexander Astin), "Careerism and Intellectualism" (Herant A. Katchadorian et al.), "Increasing Student Retention" (Lee Noel et al.), and "Success in College" (Warren Willingham) are analyzed. (MLW)

A decrease in minorities in the teaching profession is likely to occur at a time when the school-age population will be more than 30% minority. If the decrease continues, young blacks will be deprived of role models and a special caring that is irreplaceable. (MLW)

Higher education faculty outside the schools of education have a great deal at stake when it comes to the quality of schools and school teaching. They are seen as directly responsible for the frequently poor preparation of those entering college. (MLW)

Results of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's study of enrollment trends in veterinary medicine and dentistry are tabulated and analyzed, focusing on applicant pool trends, total enrollment and graduates, male and female representation, and minority group representation. (MSE)

Women, it is suggested, must have a curriculum with images of achievement and aspiration comparable to those of white middle class males. Two goals of women's studies are discussed: to develop a body of scholarship and a new curriculum about women and to transform the "mainstream" curriculum. (MLW)

The characteristics of prospective teachers, their undergraduate years, and their hopes and aspirations are explored. Teacher shortage, the changing role of women, high school achievement, college goals, and what undergraduates feel about their education are discussed. (MLW)

A look at prospective teachers after college graduation is presented including: how many obtain teaching credentials and how many of these actually enter the classroom. Using national data, the demographic and academic characteristics of prospective teachers and the differences among various groups are examined. (MLW)