Explains the need for and the process of staff development for office workers as implemented at Tuskegee Institute. (Editor)

Up until this program was developed, there were no counselor education models which were totally performance-based, field-centered, open-entry/open-exit and could offer a Master's degree. The unique features of this program are reviewed, as well as its problems and future potential. (Author/PC)

Counselors can play a vital role in educating parents. An effective counseling program includes services for parents. To reach more parents, these services must go beyond individual parent conferences. The parent study group is one means of providing services to all interested parents. (Author)

This article describes a project conducted to train faculty advisors to include lifelong career guidance in their academic advising. Results were very favorable. (Author/HMV)

While discussion about the nature and function of the PhD has flourished for years in the broad context of English studies (Bérubé; Lunsford et al.; Nelson) and for more than a decade now in rhetoric and composition (Brown, Meyer, and Enos; North; Young and Steinberg), the Master's degree has attracted scant attention. No doubt this traces to a…

Classroom experiments on atmospheric pressure focus largely on demonstrating its existence, often in a most impressive way. A series of amusing physics demonstrations is widely known and practiced by educators teaching the topic. However, measuring the value of atmospheric pressure(P[subscript atm]) is generally done in a rather mundane way,…

The major concern of this study was the effect on evaluation data of anonymity and differing time spans between completion of specific programs by students and their responses to anonymous questionnaires. (Author)

In order to provide closer personal contact between principal and students, author initiated a program of Special Happy Grams given by the principal in recognition of special efforts in good behavior, growth of independence, academic achievement, and originality. (Author/RK)

Authors examined the challenge of aerospace education, described current activities and offered suggestions to help teachers help their students into the aerospace age. (Editor/RK)

The directory provides an annotated listing of 208 projects funded under the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Secondary and Transition Initiative since 1984. Data were obtained from a 1989 questionnaire of project characteristics as well as from original project grants and previous years' profiles. The introduction describes the…

A review of practices for the recruitment and preservice training of foster care parents was conducted. Foster care professionals were consulted and the literature on foster care was researched to identify causes for the nationwide shortage of foster parents. Professionals' views were sought on how best to recruit and provide initial training to…

A group of external consultants conducted a review of the political science programs at the institutions within the state university system of Florida and made recommendations based on their findings. Their research focused on three questions: (1) How well does the department integrate itself into the university's mission? (2) How well does the…

An initial review of philosophy and religious studies programs in the state university system of Florida was conducted in 1983-84. This is a report of the five year follow-up review conducted to assess the progress made in response to the original recommendations and to report on current program status. A systemwide overview with recommendations…

A data file, consisting of a directory of all main public libraries in the United States, is presented. The data file contains data gathered using a directory development survey that began with the mailing of computer printout listings of each state's public libraries to the chief officer of the appropriate state library agency for updating.…