A study was conducted to investigate the organization and structure of faculty development programs in selected Texas community and junior colleges, and to develop faculty development models based on the quantitative and qualitative findings of the study. Interviews were conducted with seven deans of instruction or equivalent college…

Post-experience education is an important branch of adult education, but it must not obscure the greater and more general purposes of adult education to promote social advancement and individual creativity. (Author/AG)

While the library profession shares several common elements in continuing education with other professional fields, it has its own distinctive characteristics as well. The article explores several aspects of continuing professional education as they relate to the library profession, keeping those similarities and differences in mind. (AG)

Professionals' support for the concept of continuing education is contaminated by a strong opposition to any legislative mandate. Predicting that the relicensure pattern and a continuing education requirement will soon become fixtures of all professional statutes, the author recommends a task force to develop standards, programs, and evaluation…

A questionnaire survey of physical therapists in Nebraska uncovered a variety of potential needs for continuing education relative to the physical therapy field. (EA)

Adapted from a paper presented at the European Federation of Chemical Engineering Conference on Chemical Engineering Education, Churchill College (Cambridge, U.K., July 10-12, 1968).

Address to Plenary Session on "The Issues at the annual meeting of the association of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, Nov. 1, 1968).

Intended primarily for persons or agencies responsible for providing training to professionals and interested citizens involved in delivery of services to abusive and neglectful families, the manual addresses the importance of training in the identification, reporting, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. Chapters focus…

Growing in ministry is wholistic, as ministry is wholistic. Ministry is a calling and profession, and continuing education in ministry must be of help in both areas. Both attitudinal and behavioral growing should be considered--attitudinal as it has to do with a minister's being, calling, person, sense of worth, and spirituality; and behavioral as…

This discussion of a model for law librarianship continuing education programs consists of three parts: (1) the background of law librarianship, including a comparison of education programs in other professions and a general discussion of continuing education; (2) a description of a regional plan for assessing the profession's education needs; and…

This study investigated alternative instructional delivery modes in two different short courses for professional engineers and scientists. Two math-oriented courses were taught to 130 participants. Each course was taught twice, once using the blackboard exclusively and once using extensive view graph projections (20 to 40 transparencies per…

This plan is intended to help the Alabama State Department of Education unify and strengthen its approach to the delivery of services pertaining to inservice education and professional development and to provide a means for appropriately focusing attention on inservice education and the need for continuous staff improvement. The seven standards…