In many university and college counseling centers across the country, split or joint appointments provide a workable solution to the problem of adequate and appropriate staffing. The authors discuss the dilemmas inherent in joint appointments, as reported in a survey of 72 counseling centers. (Author)

This paper highlights responses received in a survey of two year and four year college economics departments to gain insight into the effectiveness of Ph.D. programs as training grounds for future economics professors. (Author/RM)

This article looks beyond class size to such specifics as teachers' load, subject electives available, subject load, and different class groupings in developing a flow chart that gives added understanding and control over the variables relating to the deployment of teachers. (Author/IRT)

A study of time allocation in urban primary-school settings. (RAO)

Presents data pertinent to faculty workloads at 66 universities surveyed by the Faculty Council of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1971. (SL)

Argues that reform of teaching conditions will only come through teachers' initiatives and crusades. Offers ways English teachers can improve their working conditions, including (1) achieving consensus among their colleagues; (2) presenting a workload study to principals, personnel directors, and superintendents; (3) requesting additional…

A study of the reassignment of a shrinking metropolitan district's unterminated high school teachers during the late 1970s and early 1980s revealed that except in music and home economics, the number of classes taught by teachers who had majored in the relevant subject area declined, sometimes dramatically. (PGD)

Presents results of a survey indicating that although nearly 70 percent of undergraduate public relations majors are women, these students have few female role models teaching them. Indicates that those women currently teaching public relations carry heavy teaching and student contact responsibilities, primarily because of their beginning faculty…

Article offers a guideline for the planning of teacher training in physical education. (GB)

Described is a cooperative undergraduate program in chemistry between two small church-related colleges in Tennessee. (RH)

Relationship of tuition, faculty size, compensation, work load and class size. (Editor)

A statistical methodology applied to three years of teaching load data from 21 major public universities yields an objective, broadly applicable set of student credit hours (SCH) weight factors. A table of optimum weighting factors for upper division and graduate SCH is presented. (Author/MLW)