Fifty-one percent of the teaching faculty surveyed were in favor of academic librarians at SIU-C having faculty rank and status. Although service was seen as the most important function of the librarians, research was considered by many as the hallmark for faculty status. Eight references and the questionnaire are included. (RAA)

Describes and assesses the employment problems (unemployment and underemployment) of political science Ph.D.s since the late 1960s. Concludes that, although political scientists have shown relatively great awareness of the worsening labor market, they continue to seek advanced degrees and academic positions. (Author/DB)

Suggests the major challenge for English teachers in the next decade is the establishment of themselves as professionals. (HOD)

The presentation of the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education to Sherman M. Mellinkoff and the AAMC Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences to J. Michael Bishop is described. (MLW)

A study of professional activity in retirement of emeriti, including emeriti who left the University of Iowa community after retirement and emeriti who continued to live in the community for part of the year, is discussed. Interviews were conducted with 113 emeritus professors. (Author/MLW)

Provides information from official state codes, specifying the degree, program accreditation, experience, and supervision requirements for licensing as a psychologist in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Discusses the crucial role played by state boards of psychological examiners in determining licensing requirements. (Author)

Kandel's reputation as a giant in the field of comparative education rests upon his magisterial surveys of educational systems in which he developed an intricate pattern of educational, political, historical, and philosophical relationships, with his theme being the relationship between education and the state. (Author/BRR)

Discusses four ingredients of a successful academic advising program: (1) selection of academic advisors; (2) training of academic advisors; (3) evaluation of the advisement program; and (4) recognition of academic advising. (RC)

The Marvick (1954) job factors questionnaire was given to approximately 300 adult education teachers in Georgia during October 1978-March 1979. Teachers are more concerned about skill factors of their jobs than they are about benefits. Reactions to both task- and benefit-oriented job factors provided suggestions to employers for staff and job…

Institutionally, basing tenure decisions on scholarship is seen as a very attractive matter. Real scholarly achievement should be celebrated in a law school, but in considering the role of scholarship in tenure, what passes for acceptable scholarship in legal academe must be looked at closely. (MLW)

Issues concerning the professionalization of evaluative research that are discussed in this reply to Morell and Flaherty include: the nature and substance of conflicts in evaluative research, conflicts over methodological perspectives, the role of the evaluator in program planning, and the appropriate uses and users of evaluative information.…

Analyzes the problems surrounding journalism education in Costa Rica. (RL)

Much of what passes for professionalism is self-serving elitism and not relevant to librarianship. Librarians, most of whom are women, should continue to improve service to the public and strive by pragmatic means to overcome low pay and status. (RAA)

Data support the importance of economic necessity and occupational potential but not the effects of status compatibility or status enhancement. Beyond effects of age, children, and the need for income, occupational prestige potential explains almost half again as much variance as the other variables. (Author)

Examines the evidence establishing that teaching is a semiprofession and looks at the reasons for this in the conditions of the workplace and in the way these conditions have been set by the state and by local districts. (IRT)