Since the 1970s, there has been a growing trend in the number and percentage of part-time, adjunct, and contingent faculty in higher education. While the working conditions of such faculty vary dramatically, their employment conditions are substandard when compared to those of their full-time colleagues. Generally, they do not receive any benefits…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether students expected course difficulty to be reflected in grade distributions and in the amount of out-of-class effort required for success. Students from both upper and lower division classes described the amount of time they expected to spend preparing for an easy class, a difficult class, and a…

This document includes 10 issues of Leadership Abstracts (volume 6, 1993), a newsletter published by the League for Innovation in the Community College (California). The featured articles are: (1) "Reinventing Government" by David T. Osborne; (2) "Community College Workforce Training Programs: Expanding the Mission to Meet Critical…

This publication is comprised of selected data taken from the July 1999 (third) edition of "World Data on Education" (WDE). The publication is in line with the International Bureau of Education's (IBE's) long tradition of disseminating useful information about school systems. The main section of the publication consists of concise…

This report presents faculty headcount statistics for Nova Southeastern University (Florida) from fall term 1995 to fall term 1998; the intent of the study was to examine the ratio of full-time faculty to student enrollment in view of accreditation criteria mandated by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A wide variety of data is…

This document consists of all 20 issues of the journal "Perceptions" published from fall 1990 through summer 1998 (8 years). Issues include articles about methods, materials, approaches, and techniques for working with students with emotional and behavioral disorders. (CR)

This report describes a program for improving student organizational skills. The targeted population consisted of a fourth-grade self contained class, a sixth-grade science class, and a high school nine through twelve learning disability class in an elementary, middle, and high school setting. The schools were located in middle to upper class…

Women returners now account for over one-third of the total labor force, but the British labor market remains strongly segregated by gender, with over 85 percent of all employed women in the service industries. A high proportion are employed part time. Despite a majority of women now returning to the labor market after breaks for childbirth and…

This report presents detailed tabulations for academic year 1997-98 of the number, tenure, and average salaries of full-time instructional faculty on 9- and 10-month contracts at institutions of higher education eligible for Title IV financial aid. Data are from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data system. Highlights of the 13 tables…

The investigation reported in this bulletin was undertaken for the purpose of making available a volume of evidence on questions concerning the early elimination of children during out-of-school hours. The inquiry was confined to the children of sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Information concerning the following points has been presented: (1)…

Evaluated was a new programed instructional unit in time-telling skills with 16 educable mentally retarded children from special intermediate or junior high classes. (DB)

Describes an innovative program launched at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, to forestall dropping out'' by longtime underachievers. (EA)