Summarizes a speech delivered at the opening session of the 1972 National Business Education Association Convention. (JS)

Community resource sites in Maine were utilized by junior high school students participating in Operation EPIC, an ESEA Title III experimental program in curriculum. The program attempts to develop student awareness and appreciation of the urban complex: social, cultural, industrial, and recreational phenomena. Systematic evaluation of the field…

The call for behavioral objectives has stimulated speech-communication instructors to prepare students to be not only effective speakers but to be effectively able to relate to themselves and others across the socialization spectrum. (Author/MB)

It is becoming recognized that participative training techniques are often the most effective. Article deals with two groups of these techniques. (Editor/RB)

The results showed that in spite of violently different feelings about (or descriptions of) the roles, the subjects were equally influenced by them. This suggests that social attractiveness may not be important when the client's problems require expert opinion and knowledge. (Author/CG(

The hypothesis that a cross-national interaction increases ethnic role salience was investigated in a laboratory setting in Australia. Among other findings, Asian subjects gave more ethnic responses than Australian subjects did, this effect being mainly accounted for by differences in perceived ethnic role attribution. (DM)