The phrase "community of scholars" contains a contradiction. Actions that strengthen the community weaken the scholarship and actions that strengthen the scholarship weaken the community. Continuing tradeoffs between community and scholarship produce many of the unique organizational properties that universities exhibit. (Author/MLW)

Describes in detail a model for determining the optimal allocation of indivisible academic departments for a multicampus university and then uses the model to calculate departmental allocations for the State University of New York at Buffalo, a 23,000 student university with three campuses and approximately 100 academic departments. (JG)

Discussion of adult continuing education administered by a department of adult education vs. an ad hoc "cell" or center for providing continuing education activities as at Punjab University. (ABM)

Summarizes a survey of the bulletins about graduate programs in English at 20 universities in the Northeast, the Midwest and the South to determine whether they wanted promising Black students or were opening their doors to a few students of exceptional attainment. (Author/JM)

Aspects of scientific structure are discussed: the level of innovation being pursued within a field at a given time, the degree of institutionalized differentiation of the field into subdisciplines, and the agreement expressed by various departments over field content. (Editor/PG)

Excerpted from The Study of Higher Education'' printed with permission from the publisher, The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan. (DS)

The anomalous position of the special research unit and the clumsiness with which it is often dealt both by university administrations and by supporting agencies reflect resistance to change and confusion regarding this new development. (Author)

Analyzes the motivation profile results of a national survey, using a job diagnostic survey instrument, of 112 directors of university computer centers; and compares these results with results of similar surveys of other kinds of managers. Describes the outcome of the use of the instrument on a university computer center. (CMV)

Discusses the various problems involved in administering a foreign language department and suggests ways to unite the department in its institutional goals. (AM)

Discusses the traditional university organizational structure v an interdisciplinary approach. (AM)

Investigates the effect of graduate program rank on success in the job market of Ph.D. job candidates for economics departments at three state universities. Reports a positive return for program rank in relation to (1) the number of interviews obtained and (2) initial salaries for the candidates. (CMK)

Presents survey data from departmental heads in one "old" or chartered university and one "new" or statutory university. Compares the heads' roles in the two types of university and compares the results with those of a previous study in l995-96. Although the role has become more similar, differences remain, most notably…