In South Carolina, service learning is located in the state Office of Community Education. The community education state plan includes strategies for infusing service learning into community education. The state association, universities, and adult education programs are involved in service learning initiatives. (SK)

Examination of several methods of identifying faculty salary inversion (pay of some junior faculty exceeding that of senior faculty) found no single best method. However, applicability of certain models to different disciplines at different funding levels was demonstrated. (SK)

Gathers systematic national data in the English curriculum through surveys sent out by the Modern Language Association (MLA) to a stratified random sample of English programs. Summarizes two major sets of findings: those relating to courses offered during the 1989-91 period and those relating to the English major. (RS)

Surveys 169 communication department chairpersons about the significance for tenure of 39 professional activities. Finds that the primary differentiating characteristic from one program to the next relative to promotion expectations regarding scholarship is the highest degree students can earn in the program. Finds that scholarship (articles,…

Discusses research in three Australian secondary schools planning to implement school-based decision-making and planning procedures as part of a "corporate-managerialist" restructuring program. Results showed that secondary schools are open social systems comprised of complex relationship patterns. A unitary view of secondary schools is…

A review of the 1983 attempt to close the Department of Adult Education at the University of Southampton illuminates the debates over the nature of adult education, the end of political consensus about educational policy, and the demise of the "Great Tradition" of university liberal education in the process of mainstreaming extramural…

Industrial technology faculty (263 of 462) rated current and future importance of selection criteria for academic department heads, revealing significant differences between current and future importance. The five highest criteria were humanistic. Assistant professors rated creativity higher and instructors/lecturers rated grantsmanship higher…

In New York City, the assistant principal for supervision is responsible for staff development and improvement of student outcomes in specific subject areas. High schools have four to eight such positions. These administrators teach one to three classes daily, depending on department size. They train teachers, develop curricula and testing…

Interviews with 90 secondary teachers in 10 English schools identified contextual influences on teacher professional development and elements of leadership. Links between professional development and school policies and philosophy produced different results. In one school, professional development served to support the performance management…

Describes an experiment to create a virtual department for international scholars with similar interests, known as the IVI (International Virtual Institute for Historical Studies of Mathematics). Describes an evaluation of the project, challenges of sustaining such communities, implications for distance education in higher education, and questions…

Contemplates how Northrop Frye, a serious man, displayed great confidence that there is a group of those who have seriously studied literature who know that this study is coherent and progressive and who have a sense of the unity of the subject. Suspects that many do not know or no longer know this sense unity of the subject and have to posit it…

Provides the Modern Language Association's salary recommendations for entry-level full-time and part-time foreign language department faculty, as well as general staffing recommendations. (Author/VWL)

States there is unease among university historians about the impact of research assessment exercises (that is a regular determinant of university funding) on their subject. Argues that such concern reflects characteristics of the discipline, making selective funding of university history departments awkward. (CMK)

Explores the trend in which nursing and other health sciences are merged within a single academic unit in higher education. Discusses faculty governance, academic freedom, tenure, the purposes of academic realignment, and overall success of such changes. (Contains 18 references.) (JOW)

Suggests that when applying for graduate school, students should begin with careful research, including talking with faculty members and counselors at their undergraduate institutions; then speak to faculty members and students at the schools under serious consideration. Discusses the degree program and the expectations. Considers employment and…