Librarianship has been preoccupied with its role in education and scholarship, to the neglect of its responsibilities and concerns with information utility. The two are no longer separable but should form one profession with opportunities for diversity and specialization. (Author/JS)

Student disdain for Canadian society is being carried over into an attitude toward the university. Faculty members should change their concept of the university from a liberal to a critical one. Report delivered at annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, May 22, 1969. Reprinted from C.A.U.T. Bulletin, October 1969. (WM)

Author emphasizes the need for parent participation in early childhood education as vital to child development. (MB)

The growth of the upper-division college as a corollary to the community college merely makes explicit a fragmentation of American higher education that has been under war for a generation, with little consideration of the consequences of this fragmentation. One risk is that racial and ethnic stratification will be perpetuated. (DM)

Evaluates the implications of the Carnegie Report for educational change. Argues that the report leads education down a false path for meaningful system change, one which will leave the colleges in the same position as now, but with more money and more students. (DM)

Medical college curriculum must be continually changed to take into consideration changes in our society, and to develop new skills and new concepts in medicine to solve public health problems. (IR)

Reviews 10 studies in which psychiatric patients considered seriously ill were randomly assigned to either inpatient care or some alternative mode of outpatient care. Finds that in no case were the outcomes of hospitalization more positive than alternative treatment. (Author/GC)

Questions why historians of education have been so reluctant to link their work more firmly to social history. As partial answers, suggests that one reason is their discomfort with current models of the development of modern society and the fact that most historians of education pursue their work with an institutional focus rather than a social…

Examined factors related to suicidal behavior and relationships between institutional response to such behavior and the behavior itself. Students (N=838) responding to a questionnaire indicated they believed social and family problems account for three-fourths of suicide threats and attempts. Depression was most commonly viewed as related to…

Describes the changing nature of higher education in Singapore, exploring particularly the government's manipulation of the country's lone (but rapidly growing) university to further national political and economic policy. Educational quality and academic freedom are noted as remaining at high levels despite the university's lack of institutional…

Examines some of the arguments used to support the view that residential segregation of ethnic and racial groups is necessarily disintegrative. Suggests that pluralism should receive greater attention as a model of residential segregation. (Author/JLF)

A discussion of basic working definitions and an attenuated historical review of graduate dental education, with special emphasis on the evolution of goals and objectives of graduate dental education, is presented. Factors affecting objectives include: type of program and desired end-product, discipline or specialty, and institutional setting.…