Some revolutionary shifts in attitudes about teacher education are basic to change. Rather than defend the present state of teacher education, teacher educators must provide (1) a new political power base capable of securing adequate finances for quality teacher education; (2) a recruiting system which properly selects and screens talent for…

Current academic policy and practice for supplemental income are analyzed in this speech. It is concluded that the traditional missions of an academic institution (e.g., teaching, scholarship and creative work, and public service) are lacking today. It is felt that commitment to income-producing sources may lead to unconscious compromise of…

The effect of the women's movement on the lives of academic women potentially has a major impact on college and university campuses. Although the movement has already reached thousands of students, chiefly through women's studies programs, it has not yet begun to change the institutions of higher education. The four women who are the authors of…

The conventional wisdom of numerous practitioners and researchers suggests that on issues of structure and control the school can best be described and analyzed in the bureaucratic framework. However, the bureaucratic model fails to recognize the intervening character that the presence of professionalism has on the process of school governance.…

The initial enchantment with the natural insight of the indigeneous paraprofessionsl is reexamined in this article. Funding has been cut from mental health programs whose originators and employees are too close to their work to examine its effectiveness objectively. Rather than viewing professionalism as an unfeeling state, the author recognizes…

A study examined the relationship between the commitment on the part of teachers to either their profession or their employing school districts and their attitudes towards professional and militant activities. The sample consisted of responses from 394 elementary and secondary school teachers (of 625 employed in two western New York school…

In the fall of 1973, questionnaires concerning their professional relationships and goals were sent to 456 school media specialists in the southeastern United States. Responses were received from 66% of those surveyed. The major conclusions derived from the survey were the following: (1) there is a trend toward central locations for school media…

Growing professionalization in rehabilitation counseling has been offset recently by the New Careers movement and its emphasis on the use of subprofessionals. To analyze recruitment and retention of personnel in the face of this changing professionalism, this report compares the spring 1965 graduates with a national sample of practicing…

The purpose of this treatise is to bring to light some of the conceptions that educators have of the library and its librarian. The study was prompted by the discovery of a lack of information regarding the library in teacher training textbooks. This report is concerned with two things: how the public school educator views the library and its…

The author presents an historical and cultural analysis of the place of women in society. It is stated that historically women have had to assume an aggressive role to become educated. In addition, as far back as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one finds records which indicate that women had to seek opportunities to study and to learn.…

The paper examines the future by focusing attention upon a few critical areas. Some specific research is cited to support the major thesis that faculty and staff do not influence students in affective areas. The hypothesis that colleges can fulfill their stated objectives only by taking advantage of affective opportunities and by overtly…

This document, the fourth in the final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Educational Research, is a qualitative case study designed to show the form of sociological contributions to and the role of sociologists in policy formulation at an American Educational Research Association (AERA) colloquium. Discussions at the conference…

A survey of administrative structure and academic status of clinical faculty in accredited schools of pharmacy showed that all responding schools (70 per cent return) have a full-time clinical faculty category with most having part-time and unsalaried as well. Information on departmental power, promotion, tenure, and reappointment are included.…

The responsibility for freshman composition programs should be taken from English departments and given to departments of literacy. (JH)

Senior pharmacy students' perceptions prior to and after clinical experience were examined as they rated the occupations of BS pharmacist, PharmD pharmacist, physician, and nurse in one of three teaching hospitals in which the clinical course was conducted. The clinical experience did not significantly change students' previous perceptions. (LBH)