The Modern Language Association's annual convention is discussed, as well as its inability to cope with the present glut of graduates and the woman's movement. (PG)

A personal view of a Ph.D. facing the marketplace. (PG)

Underemployment or working at less than one's full productive capacity, has become the hallmark of work in industrial societies. An expert on work patterns discusses the alarming implications for society. (Author/PG)

Five educators offer answers to this question and consider the implications of double majors, accountability, increased employability, self-knowledge for students, and data limitations in career counseling. (LBH)

The increasing underutilization of educated workers poses substantial dilemmas for organizational managers and carries profound repercussions for education. (Author)

An expert in work patterns concludes that to improve the relationship between education and employment, education must not be sold as an economic investment. (Editor/PG)

Discusses the theory that in Canada, Americans are dominating the job market and taking jobs from Canadian Ph.d's. (Author)

Innovative trends in college placement programs at Bowling Green University, Yale University, and the City College of New York are described. Placement officers there and career counseling firms and organizations are taking more aggressive steps to prepare graduates for the job market. (LBH)

Extent and causes of the turnaround in college job market of the seventies are examined with the conclusion that developments are unprecedented and not simply cyclical or temporary phenomena. Implications are discussed including effects on faculty job market, college programs and finance, social mobility, and government role. (JT)

A white high school dropout stands a better chance at employment than a black high school graduate, according to a study that maintains that persistent high black unemployment rates and lower paying, less prestigious jobs are not a matter of poorer or less education but of prejudice. (Author/LBH)

The success of the entire academic enterprise depends directly on the contributions of the junior faculty members. The quality of the junior faculty, the diversity of talent, the promotion/appointment process, and the incentives to value teaching and university citizenship as well as scholarship are discussed. (MLW)

Issue is taken with Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys of unemployment among 1972 liberal arts graduates because they are taken in the first year or two after graduation. The author reports his own 1974 study of 735 1972 graduates which reveals lower rates of unemployment and higher levels of employment. (JT)

The U.S. cannot have an economy based on high levels of expertise without a labor force that is expert and broadly enough educated to move easily from challenge to challenge, from one area of expertise to another. A labor force is needed that is creative, knowledgeable, and flexible. (MLW)

The uncertain status of two-year college teacher preparation looms large in the calls for new degrees and new patterns of preparing faculty. Specific recommendations are made for preparing doctoral graduates to work in community and junior colleges. (LBH)

An informal survey of social science and humanities societies indicates that many different strategies are being used to deal with the job shortage. New training and marketing methods have emerged along with modified objectives within association committees. (LBH)