If the department is provided with professional management assistance and the chairman is released to pursue more pressing academic needs, the faculty will be less negatively inclined toward the position. (Author/HS)

Efforts to rank departments in institutions of higher education may be misguided. (HS)

In New Mexico, school aid comes from the general fund, thus allowing better coordination of State financial services. (RA)

The results of a comprehensive survey on school business managers covering personal and introspective data, responsibilities, and procedures. (RA)

As of mid-1970 45 states employed state social studies specialists. Further data from a survey indicate their educational preparation, duties (consulting more than supervision), professional association affiliation, and salaries. 95 percent of local school districts do not employ a social studies consultant. (DB)

Describes present administrative structure in large public universities based on data collected from 54 of the 63 state-supported universities with more than 10,000 students, and states urgent need for new, efficient forms of administrative organization of a university or any unit within it. (IR)

Considers what the study of law teaches and how this training is useful to academic administrators. (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)

Points our the reasons speech communication is particularly fortunate among academic fields today. Reviews criteria that will ensure the preservation of college programs: (1) quality of research; (2) interrelationship with other disciplines; (3) a balance between competence instruction and theoretical instruction; and (4) a public constituency.…