Potential promises and problems in the placing of children with special needs or handicaps in the regular classroom are examined in this document. The history of mainstreaming, its rationale, and generally accepted definition are outlined. The focus of this report is upon the role of the teacher union in the complex requirements involved in…

The third in the series of Faculty Activity Analysis manuals, Interpretation and Uses of Data, suggests and illustrates a variety of faculty activity information display formats and analysis techniques. In addition to presenting a brief overview of the contents of the second manual, Procedures Manual (Manning and Romney 1973), this document…

Articles of this agreement cover: definitions and construction, recognition of the council, nondiscrimination, salary, fringe benefits, leaves of absence, faculty workload, working conditions, calendars and schedules, departmental governance, college governance, campus governance, university commission and financial exigency, security of…

The purpose of the present study was to determine faculty output and accountability within faculty workload by determining the unit cost in output and effort in graduating a single Ph.D. student. Work equivalents are determined from institutional and faculty self-reports at a major graduate university in which 225 faculty members were surveyed.…

A study was conducted in order to determine appropriate components for a full-time faculty workload policy at Central Florida Community College (CFCC). A questionnaire was utilized in a survey of 27 CFCC faculty on what should constitute workload, and workload data for fall term 1976-77 were tabulated. The faculty workload policies of other states…

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)