Author views the student-initiated courses at the University of California, Berkeley, as a courageous attempt to reconceive and reorganize campus environment and curriculum; and as a challenge to the university commitment to innovation and change. (IR)

Adapted from a paper presented at the Fourth Congress of the International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, October 21, 1968). (RJ)

Uses data on 682 day-care centers (DCCs) operating in metropolitan Toronto, 1971-89, to examine how DCCs alter their organizational niches, defined by productive capacities and targeted resources, in response to competition, and resulting influences on their survival. Finds that evolution of the DCC population was a joint function of adaptation…

Suggests that the cultural and institutional environment in higher education can affect an instructor's teaching self. Draws upon the experiences of the authors who have similar backgrounds yet teach in different institutional contexts (a large midwestern university and a small west coast teaching college). Includes references. (CMK)

Compared equity in number and salary between women and men at different ranks within a sample of doctoral-level institutions of higher education (N=109). Found that at current rate of increase it will take women 90 years to be equally represented and that gap in salaries has increased since 1975. (ABL)

Johns Hopkins Hospital expanded its health care delivery capabilities and strengthened its position in the marketplace by acquisitions of and mergers with other hospitals and a health maintenance organization. The resulting conglomerate has achieved its goals of expanding patient care, broadening the patient base, and enlarging the asset base and…

Discusses the creation of library computer information systems and shows the four phases incorporated by successful projects. Highlights include phase I: demonstrating a need for a new system; phase II: the development environment; phase III: guidelines to ensure the system will be useful; and phase IV: implementation and acceptance of the new…

Driven by mandates to serve and educate their communities and by political and financial pressures, museum's are seeking ways to alter their so-called elitist attitudes to draw in a more diverse group of visitors than they were able to in the past. Focuses on the Brooklyn Museum. (LZ)

Reports on a study of teachers' attitudes and moral judgment. Finds that teachers who participated in a Just Community Approach Program changed their beliefs about fairness, justice, and responsibility. Suggests that this type of staff development can help teachers deal with situational conflicts. (CFR)

Examines the extent to which informal orders of the host educational environment affect conducting binational scientific projects in academic environments as perceived by the participants from the parties involved. Also studied is whether executing such projects is affected by linguistic factors. Projects under investigation were carried out by…

Looks at interactions between English-as-a-Second-Language students and English-speaking staff at the front desk of a language institute. Analysis focuses on the sequential organization of front desk encounters, revealing ways the participant's shared orientations to the organization and goals of these encounters facilitate native…

The purpose of this study was to understand factors that influenced the career trajectories of veteran urban secondary physical education teachers. The careers of these teachers were studied from the theoretical perspectives of teacher efficacy and teacher career development. Participants included 9 secondary urban physical education teachers (4…

Disabled students require full access to the higher education curriculum without suffering from discrimination due to their disability. This is a simple ethic of civilised societies, but is also increasingly becoming a legal imperative. In a relatively small number of cases access may mean accommodating manifest physical impairments such as those…