Encourages English faculty and students to look forward to continuing and improving the long-standing connections between English and business and suggests specific methods to enhance those connections. (AEA)

Explains the extent to which the innovativeness of banks (as measured by the adoption of credit cards and computers) is affected by competition, growth, size, and departmentalization. Notes that size and growth are more significantly related to innovation than are departmentalization and competition. (SB)

Describes a way one principal involved teachers in the selection of a department head, by the appointment of a selection committee. (JM)

Examines seven surveys containing ratings of geography departments that appeared between 1924 and 1980. All the surveys attempted to assess the relative standing of Ph.D.-granting departments of geography in the United States. (RM)

The fact that the writing center provides a direct educational service to students is in no way a cause for shame and embarrassment. (HOD)

Three key areas of confusion in the English department--composition, curriculum, and humanism--can be resolved by marshaling ideas from social dramatism, games theory, and sociobiology. (DD)

Discusses a study undertaken to determine differences between choices made by males and females with regard to choice of major department in a college or university. Findings indicated that men tended to opt for unsupportive departments providing high status rewards whereas women exhibited the opposite pattern. Findings and implications are…

Examines the determinants of power and budget allocations on two campuses of a large, state university system. Faculty positions and budget allocations were a function of student enrollment and departmental power, and departmental power was related to the amount of a department's grant and contract funds as well as to its enrollment. (Author/IRT)

A former English department chairman looks back with optimism at the state of English education since 1930 and discusses how it might be of use in developing future curricula. (HTH)

Discusses the need for state departments of education to reorganize to meet the challenges of the future. Suggests ways for pulling vocational and general education together. (JOW)

Discusses a survey on the major problems a college or university is likely to encounter when attempting to integrate computer applications into the business curriculum and a comprehensive plan for such an integration. (Author/IRT)

Discusses specific activities for instituting participatory democracy as well as the benefits these activities have for departments that elect to engage in them. Uses the Communication Studies Department at San Jose State University as an exemplar. Highlights some projects to show one direction in which the public sphere seems to be changing. (PA)

The 1987 Green Paper on Australian higher education recommended abandoning the binary system. The Dawkins plan effectively transferred resources from established universities to the former colleges of advanced education. This study compares initial and subsequent performance of economics departments, using a nonparametric data-envelopment-analysis…

Discusses an assessment survey questionnaire administered to randomly selected sociology departments (n=150) regarding the level of development of their departmental statements of purpose, goals, and objectives among other questions. Reports that two thirds of the 70 respondents have a departmental statement of purpose, but less than half have…

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)