The author contends that the achievement of specified counseling outcomes is the joint responsibility of university training programs, employing agencies, and supervisory personnel, as well as practicing counselors. (Author)

Discusses issues in the quality assessment of extension programs, including clarifying extension's mission, defining "university level," strengthening institutional links, maintaining instructional quality, and dealing with unprepared students. (SK)

Likening the relationship of the ALA and its professional divisions to that of the sun and its planets, this editorial explores the organizational characteristics and stability of the present system and solicits opinions. (RAA)

Compares the social structuring of birth and death and proposes a more general framework: transitions into and out of life. Discusses changes in these events fostered by modernization, exploring the role of dying and birthing individuals, the family's place, control of information, medical components, collective action, and the uses of ritual.…

Suggests that persons who bring charges of child abuse within an institution should be sure of the facts and have a plan of action with alternative strategies. Emphasizes that the need of the child for protection must be considered in both internal and external reports of abuse. (Author/GC)

Analyzes reference books which reflect differences in the curriculum and presentation of course offerings in the City Colleges of Chicago, Illinois. Shows how institutions, sometimes unwittingly, help to maintain inequities in educational opportunities. (Author/MK)

Based on his experience and enjoyment of museums the author suggests how museums may best influence children. (RMH)

Speculates about the role of museums in the future. (RMH)

Discusses the current trends towards distance learning from the institutional point of view, considers their implications for institutional organizations, and compares them with other forms of opening up learning opportunities for individuals. (Author)

Argues that the form of developmental studies programs should follow the function they serve in the institution. Identifies such functions of developmental studies as skill development, personal development, maximizing educational opportunity, and improving mainstreaming curricula, and suggests forms that will maximize these functions. (DR)

Society must create--in connection with schools or apart from them--new ways to help young people learn about "becoming adult." (Author)

Using North Dakota as an example, this article focuses upon the misuse of statistical information by those who for political reasons wish to distort data and maintains, that educators are best equipped to handle educational data. (JC)

Assesses the impact of job attributes, institutional mission, and institution type on the perceptions of potential applicants for the position of provost. Randomly selected deans (456), assuming the role of potential provost applicants, rated one of four position announcements. Deans rated announcements emphasizing a research mission more…

Examines the university as it has become, studying its function in present society. The paper discusses author Allan Bloom's views in "The Closing of the American Mind" and looks at three social issues to which the university has responded somewhat successfully (university as moneymaker, mythmaker, and guardian of social…

Discusses sponsorship by the Library of Congress (LC) for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Digital Libraries Initiative--Phase 2, which is supporting innovative digital-library research and applications. The objective of the multiyear program is to provide leadership in research fundamental to the next generation of digital libraries. (LRW)