In recent years academic capitalism and a distancing from Mertonian scientific norms have shifted the traditional reward of academic science from peer recognition to the award of grants. With the shrinking of the NIH budget in real terms since 2003, there are increasing numbers of researchers whose careers are at risk from lack of funding. This…

Expert testimony by clinical social workers concerning a criminal defendant's competence to stand trial has increasingly been admitted in certain state courts over the past two decades, yet most state laws still require that court-appointed competence evaluators be psychiatrists or psychologists. Pressure to admit social workers' testimony will…

This paper presents a review of 39 empirical studies that investigated multilingual scholars' participation in core/global academic communities through article and research publication. These studies were analyzed in terms of multilingual scholars' reasons for publishing in English, the obstacles that stand in their way of international…

The devolution instigated in the United Kingdom in 1997 was a further stage in a long historical process. Nonetheless, prior to the 1990s, the basic structures of career guidance services were broadly similar across the UK. But the marketisation of careers services that took place under the Conservative government in the mid-1990s went further in…

Acknowledgement patterns in the "Journal of Higher Education" (JHE) from 1972 to 1993 inclusive were examined using Blaise Cronin's (1991) six-part typology. In the 21-year period, 38.8% of the articles had a formally worded acknowledgement with the majority (81.2%) of those being resource-related, 55% concept-related, and 32%…

Author explored certain aspects of the professional model that do not frequently appear in the literature and suggested that teachers review the very basic question of the desirability of becoming a professional. (Author/RK)

The monograph reports on a survey of fund raiser attitudes toward issues of professionalism and stresses that professional competence is not enough if an occupational group aspires to be recognized as a true profession. Part I provides an overview of fund raising as a profession including sections on: what a profession is, the professional…

The document initially describes Part 1 of a two-part National Association of Secondary School Principals article, "Geographic Literacy: Essential in a Global Age," published in September 1986, and written to inform educational decision-makers about the need to institute, update, and enrich geography programs in U.S. schools. The second article,…

The article examines the effect of international awards and measures of recognition of performance in literacy on literacy program improvement and expansion. (AG)

Inquiry into the nature of man, an interdisciplinary approach and research are needed to reduce the amount of personal opinion which is taken as ultimate truth. (KM)

Presentations on professional issues and problems in agricultural education were made at the Teacher Educator's Breakfast held annually from 1957 through 1966 during the American Vocational Association Convention. These speeches were delivered by professional leaders chosen by their associates on the basis of their challenging, instructive, or…

The study was made in order to provide background for a planned public relations program sponsored by the American Home Economics Association (AHEA). A total of 26 personal and 79 telephone interviews were conducted of persons in business, education, communications and media, and government. The study found that: there is need for a public…

The library profession in colleges and universities is faced with three critical problems: (1) too few high-paying positions relative to the total number of practitioners to make the profession financially attractive, (2) the highest level positions to which the majority of career librarians may aspire offer dim prospect of an adequately…