An opinion of what conditions teachers should be held accountable is followed by recommendations to help improve their teaching and professional status. (KM)

Married women with or without children appear to experience less success in academic life. Marital and, for men, parental status may enter reward decisions as a possible indicator of perceived financial need. Perception of sex discrimination appears to be more accurate among women than men. (Author/JB)

Depending on the characteristics of their area, scholars differed in (a) the degree to which they were socially connected to others, (b) their commitment to teaching, research, and service, (c) the number of journal articles, monographs, and technical reports that they published, and (d) the number of dissertations that they sponsored. (Author)

Collective bargaining is not unprofessional, merely novel to the academic profession, argues an experienced negotiator in explaining its characteristics. (Editor)

A faculty member holds that planners, whether their concern is academic, fiscal, or physical, will have to reexamine their professional self-image if they are to rebuild the university to meet the requirements of today. (Author)

The professionalization" of teaching might begin a history of lawsuits against teachers for malpractice (and subsequent emotional damage to children.) (EA)

Considers how lawyers relate themselves to politics by investigating whether the variations in the work situation of lawyers and their position in the hierarchy of the profession affect their political activity and some aspects of their perceptions. (Author)

Symposium held October 1-2, 1970 in Wiesbaden, West Germany. (VM)

Part of a continuing bibliographical series. (VM)

Describes efforts that a local guidance chapter is making toward helping its members achieve status in the local community as well as accomplishing the goals of the state and national group. (Author)

Three methods and several implementations of each by which school counselors might evaluate their own competence and that of colleagues are suggested. The methods include: 1) practitioners should be involved in the training effort; 2) practicing counselors should be their own evaluators; and 3) creation of ethnic and standard committees.…

Report of a survey of academic institutions in the Association of Research Libraries to determine how many librarians were involved in formal teaching programs as a measure of one way to meet the responsibilities of faculty status. (Editor/JS)