Presents a fictionalized account of a young professor's attempt to make a name for himself in academic circles. (TO)

Article explains the struggle the teacher has had to make in order to sharpen his own educational responsibility to his students and which has upset the power structure that has thwarted the teacher movement. (RK)

The case for bureaucracy is presented in this article, which stresses the need for creative school administrators to apply the principles of bureaucracy in a way that will avoid making hired hands of professional people. (Editor)

This study examines the characteristics of faculty who joined the top twenty departments in six disciplines between 1963 and 1966 in order to evaluate the relative importance of prestige of doctoral origin and scholarly performance in the selection for a position in these departments." (Author/SE)

Author argues that for the sake of the students, teachers must work for the power to control and direct the enterprise of education -- and such professional power can come only through unity. (Author/MB)

Institutionalization of training within the university seems to have been the key to professionalization, and those areas which first were regarded as graduate" subjects -- medicine, divinity, and law -- early came to be looked upon as professions. (Author)

A director of libraries in a large university whose librarians have academic faculty status with explicit titles naming various levels of professorship describes what responsibilities he feels are his toward the library faculty, and conversely what is expected academically of them. (Editor)

Students preparing to teach must think of their future jobs as professional service rather than as a type of trade. (Editor/IR)

Reviews the development of social work views about the person-environment interface as an evolutionary process. Charges that Fischer's criticism of theory and of pressing for rank empiricism and an emphasis on technique as a basis for practice is a sure way to social work's demise as a knowledge-based profession. (JAC)

Addresses issues related to the nonunion professional activities of community college faculty, including their relatively low level of participation in professional organizations; the efforts of professional associations to address the problems of community college faculty; the consequences of inadequate professional status; and roles of…

Given that school psychologists have some control over the field's future, it is necessary to prevent disintegration and to alter both the laws regarding practice and professional interrelationships. Guidelines for a structure for future roles, standards, and training are discussed with suggested cautions toward conference data. (CM)