Positive and negative influences of contract research on graduate education are reviewed, with time restrictions noted as a significant difference between contract and grant-supported research. Specific conditions are cited, which, if met, can ensure beneficial effects for graduate study. (LBH)

Discusses aspects of a professional studio acting program at the university level. (PD)

Some of the risk management procedures for use with liability loss exposures, specifically in the context of higher education, are conceptualized and described. Liability insurance--its coverage and market--is discussed and sample policy provisions are appended. (LBH)

The obstacles to change are analyzed, with some hints for surmounting them. Topics covered include: nontraditional studies, legal restraints, education vouchers, administrative organization, and the middle college concept. (LBH)

The changing functions of the British university, that of a service organization, a business organization, a commonweal organization and a mutual-benefit organization, has made competing demands on the resources available to higher education institutions. (Author/PG)

To retain the public understanding and support, higher education must openly disclose its operation, continue a flow of information, set out clear and identifiable goals and objectives, and change with the times. (Author/PG)

Administrators must be ready to answer questions regarding management, curriculum, students, and other topics concerning their institutions. (HS)

Information about students incidental to programs of articulation of colleges and universities with junior colleges and high schools can be profitably used in many phases of student guidance. (Editor)

Enumerates ways in which university sociology departments can help students find out about career possibilities in the field of sociology. Suggestions include providing information on employment opportunities and graduate programs, identifying occupations of graduated sociology majors, advising students about employment and graduate school, and…

Challenges Higgs'"ambivalent" position about the role of the university (presented in a previous article), contending that the university can still retain its character as "a community of reason" (Higgs' main argument) without abandoning its social role vis-a-vis nation building. (EV)

Argues that through effective delivery of support services, compensatory and social functioning skills workshops, and increased faculty awareness, institutions of higher education can help meet the needs of learning disabled college students. (RS)

A survey of 343 administrators, county agents, specialists, and secretaries in Mississippi Cooperative Extension received 295 responses showing that 43 percent of agents and secretaries felt that administrators were responsible for keeping them current with computer technology by providing training opportunities and released time; and most…

Asserts that big-time sports distort educational values, and discusses faculty's role in restoring a better balance. (EV)