Issues faced by women seminarians include attitudes of male students and faculty, lack of representation of women on faculty search committees and on the faculty, and restricted opportunities in the church to use their talents and training. The problems are similar for Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish women looking for jobs. (LBH)

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

A prominent Catholic educator says American academics discriminate against white ethnics, labeling them culturally inferior and socially deficient. The comments are based on research done by the Center for the Study of American Pluralism on a national sample of 18,000 cases. (LBH)

Liberal arts colleges are concerned with the marketability of their graduates because students are demanding proof that four years' investment in education will pay off with career mobility and economic security. It is suggested that good liberal arts majors have marketable skills in thinking and communication and confidence in themselves. (MLW)

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, established in 1968 and now located on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus, offers students training that may lead to a certificate, diploma, or associate degree in business or technical skills. Job opportunities for graduates are described, as is the institute itself. (LBH)

Executive Order 11246 calls for nondiscrimination and affirmation action programs in college and university hiring. (HS)

Quota systems for the enforcement of equal job opportunities on campuses are viewed as discriminatory. (HS)

The Institute for Research in History, a nonprofit organization founded by four women that allows historians, regardless of how they make a living, to continue their work outside academe, is described. The scholarly group offers historians an opportunity to exchange ideas and gain new perspectives by working with specialists outside their fields.…

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

Making certain that minority groups are well represented in student bodies is often difficult, as in the case of the University of Michigan where the student body numbers over 40,000. (HS)

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)

Clark Kerr, the chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, conducted a conference concerning their first major report. The council's main thrusts in this report are universal access and maintenance of the research capacity of the universities. (Author/PG)