This annotated bibliography of recent articles and books on academic rankings updates an article in the Spring 1986 "RQ." Items are listed by subject and ranking in general; individual guides; subject areas including accounting, advertising, biogeography, business, communications, data communications, economics, music, publishing,…

Defines the legitimacy of speech/language pathology and audiology as an academic field of study within a college of liberal arts and sciences. (PD)

Defines the speech communication field and discusses the status of speech communication at the University of Georgia. (PD)

Discusses the speech communication field and program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. (PD)

Discusses the pitfalls of departmental "territoriality" and asserts that faculty groups must transcend disciplinary perspectives and assume responsibility for general education in order to protect students' broader educational interests. (EV)

Suggests that working beyond the academy should be understood not as an abandonment of the academic job market, a response to failure, or a curse: instead, it should be understood as a new avenue for intellectual work, one that neither graduate-school programs nor the Modern Language Association would be wise to ignore. (RS)

One of the most distinctive features of academic departments in community colleges is their multi-disciplinary nature. While the creation of multi-disciplinary departments usually results from pragmatic considerations, they do present some advantages over one-subject departments in that faculty are obliged to learn other disciplines and a system…

The medium-specificity thesis that says each art form has its own domain of expression and exploration is discussed. This thesis has significance for educational policy, e.g., when art forms try to form their own academic departments or divisions, they will assert their autonomy using medium-specificity arguments. (RM)

Reflects on the status of communication study since 1959 when Bernard Berelson announced that communication research was "withering away." Addresses the development of the discipline and the issue of "ferment in the field." (PD)

The establishment of distinct disciplines within the social sciences was clearly a benefit in the development of knowledge and of differential approaches and conceptualizations. The discarding of those disciplines would be regressive and the promotion of interaction between disciplines will facilitate the growth of knowledge. (JB)

Discusses the development and status of the speech communication field at the University of Virginia. (PD)

Argues for the holding together within a single academic field of study all or as many of the communication disciplines as possible. (PD)

Discusses the implementation of knowledge management systems in academic departments. Explains the pedagogical perspective of knowledge management, the knowledge building process, and applying information technology; and presents a case study of the development of a knowledge management framework at the Manipal Institute of Technology (India).…

This study analyzed current name trends in higher education physical education, identified the rate of these name changes, sought to determine if a common name is reaching consensus within the profession, and summarized the perceived advantages or disadvantages for changing or retaining current names. (IAH)