Speech communication departments use a number of criteria when selecting a job candidate. In addition to good graduate training in the area advertised, the candidate should have a good record in research and publication or good prospects for such a record. Moving is inherent to healthy young academics and should be expected, but speech…

DESPITE THE SUBSTANTIAL AND RELATIVELY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF PRACTICES IDENTIFIED, IT APPEARS THAT JUNIOR COLLEGES, IN GENERAL, ARE DOING LITTLE EXPERIMENTATION IN THE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF FACULTY SERVICES. THIS IS DUE IN PART TO THE FACT THAT UNTIL RECENTLY, THE COLLEGES HAVE HAD LITTLE DIFFICULTY IN RECRUITING FACULTY. ALSO, THE COLLEGES ARE…

"General education in the university college is so disparate in definition, so motley in context, so various in actual operation that it poses immense difficulties for the researcher." An examination of the position of general education in the complex university is very revealing of the institution's commitment to knowledge, and particularly to…

The premise of this paper (prepared for the Conference on Increasing Opportunities for Mexican American Students in Higher Education, Long Beach, California, May 15-17, 1969) is that all educational institutions have a moral obligation to reorder priorities immediately to meet the needs of Chicano students for relevant, motivated education,…

The 1973 study by the Women Chemists Committee is updated for the 1974-75 academic year. Only professors, associate professors, and assistant professors are included, since lecturers, instructors, and others are not considered full-time appointees or permanent positions. Unfortunately, in following the fate of young women Ph.D.'s, it seems that…

The Higher Education Resource Services was formed to establish a registry and referral system for recruiting women faculty and administrators in order to fulfill equal employment opportunity commitments. A personal account is provided of the resistance encountered and start-up activities of planning, design, organization, and money. (SW)

Investigates college faculty views on influence and power in areas of educational policy, recruitment, and finance. Findings from a large sample of colleges and universities indicate that influence in educational policy and recruitment is perceived to be divided among senior faculty, department chairmen, administrators, and trustees. (Author/DB)

The current trend toward academic gamesmanship, characterized by interinstitutional competition for faculty, gives the general public a superficial notion of academic excellence, deceives higher education supporters, deprives undergraduates of teaching that they are paying higher prices to receive, and gauges success by ephemeral standards.…

The number of women faculty members in engineering correlates directly with the number of women who pursue careers in this field. Proposed are ways to break the cycle of too few role models producing another generation of too few women engineers. (CW)

The scholar-teacher, whose functions lie at the heart of the college or university, should have a part in the selection of chairman, dean, and president, suggests this director of the Division of Educational Placement at the University of Pennsylvania. (Editor/LBH)

An announcement by Michigan University President concerning measures being taken to implement the Regental action of March 19, 1970 and thereafter, with respect to proposals of representatives of the Black Action Movement. (JM)

Waiver nurses prove to be a highly motivated group not requiring rigid classroom structure. A source of womanpower well worth saving, in the opinion of Colorado educators. (Editor)