Published research productivity of 97 sociologists from a variety of types of institutions is evaluated quantitatively for both the pretenure period and the post-tenure period in the person's career. Data consist of vita and supplementary information, coded into a weighted index that takes journal prestige into account. (Author/LBH)

Examines the possible role of the chief information officer in universities and corporations, and the ways in which librarians need to restructure their professional role to qualify for the chief information officer function. (CLB)

Assesses the Boylston professorship at Harvard University, which, although originally devoted to rhetoric and oratory, has evolved in the twentieth century into a professorship of poetics and poetry. (NKA)

Discusses the professionalization of continuing education teachers. Asks whether the field should professionalize further and, if so, which model it should follow. Provides some historical background to these questions. Presents alternative models for the future of continuing education. (CH)

Examines biographies of Marie Curie written for children and discusses two types of distortions: simple misrepresentations of fact and selective retelling of the past. It is concluded that biographies of minority or female success should deal specifically with strategies used by the hero or heroine to combat prejudice. (EM)

Suggests techniques to reform and strengthen teacher education. Areas included are structure, curriculum, and linkages with other disciplines and with society. (CH)

The licensing of teachers should be modeled against professions similar to teaching rather than professions like medicine and architecture that are vastly different. Applying similar licensing practices can raise the status of teaching. Ignoring these licensing practices will prevent teachers from functioning as professionals. (MD)

Teacher burnout has a significant impact on recruitment, retention, and performance of teachers. Basic assumptions, issues, and controversies that have influenced the understanding of teacher burnout are examined. (DF)

The seventy-fifth birthday of Fritz Fischer, the Hamburg historian, provides an opportunity to recall his studies in educational history in the 1930s. (RM)

The potential for consensus around the questions of who should educate teachers is discussed. Six areas of evolving argreement are identified, and goals to enhance the potential for consensus are proposed. (MT)

Most reward systems for teacher education are not focused on preparing better teachers but on "vita puffing." The time is right for reward systems to be focused on rewarding those administrators and faculty who bring about improvements in their own programs. (MT)

Assessed productivity in counseling psychology through the affiliations of presenters at American Psychological Association (APA) conventions, authors of Journal of Counseling Psychology and The Counseling Psychologist articles and Division 17 leaders. Focused on hypothesized institutional, program,and individual factors related to productivity.…

Surveyed college student personnel graduate programs in 1979 (N=87) and 1982 (N=91) to solicit information concerning introductory courses. Results showed that most courses were located in counselor education programs. There was little consistency in purpose, objectives, content emphasis, outcome, or textbooks. (JAC)

Compares behavioral medicine and health psychology to establish counseling psychology's relationship with these approaches. Surveys three areas of training and application that the current research suggests will offer opportunities for meaningful participation by counseling psychologists. (JAC)

Traces the personal and professional lives of two sisters, Edna Dean Baker and Clara Belle Baker, who were influential in the direction of childhood education in the U.S. Particularly highlights their early years, education, careers, and accomplishments in the educational field and publications, professional contributions, and honors. (DST)