Short biographic sketches of Sofya Krukovsky Kovalevsky and Emmy Noether are given. (MK)

Highlights the career and professional accomplishments of Donald J. Willower, a professor of education at Pennsylvania State University. His empirical studies have examined school cultures, the place of student control, and administrator and teacher attitudes and behavior. He strongly advocates qualitative research methods and espouses a pragmatic…

Quotes from founding members of the American Association of University Professors concerning the formation of an association of university professors are presented. (MLW)

In the late 19th century, visionary leaders pursued liberal education for nurses, moving nursing education from hospitals to universities. The nursing professorate might never have developed had nursing education remained under the jurisdiction of hospitals. (SK)

Most tributes to the late Barbara Jordan focused on her life in public service, but this appreciation recalls her brilliance as a teacher. The values behind her noted voice lent her speech, as political figure and teacher, its authority. (SLD)

Professional literature on American higher education is vast and varied. Bibliographic items on college and university administration alone indicate that perhaps twenty thousand books, pamphlets, and magazine articles have appeared in print since 1950. Because the range and quality of the literature on university administration are so great, the…

A former Sauer graduate student reminisces about one of the most influential, albeit controversial, figures in American geography. Topics include Sauer as a geography educator, his fieldwork, his department at Berkeley, his opinions about the subfields of geography, his interest in the here and now, and his personal interests. (SR)

Looks at where academic careers are and will be going in light of the failed predictions of academicians themselves. Argues that academicians find themselves in a crisis of providing sufficient faculty members to meet the demands created by forces that were not foreseen and are not fully understood. (RS)

Helen M. Walker contributed to the field of educational research and statistics during a 55-year career. Born in Iowa in 1891, Walker earned a bachelor's degree from Iowa Wesleyan College and taught high school mathematics for nine years. She then taught at the University of Kansas while doing graduate work. One source noted that she was the first…

The history of James Burrill Angell as the president of the University of Michigan presents a case study of the role of 19th century liberal Protestant university builders in the eventual marginalization of religion from the mainstream of U.S. higher education. Angell's tenure, which began in 1871, encompassed the period in which the modern…

The Office of Education presents herewith the sixth annual compilation of research studies in education, comprising masters' and doctors' theses and other investigations completed from 1931 to 1932. The last study was quite large (more than 450 pages). Consequently ways were sought of reducing this one. The result is that several mimeographed…

Discusses the contribution of a distinguished teacher and scholar during the formative years of the speech profession. Includes a brief biography, major tenets of the Midwestern School of Speech, and major tenets of the Cornell School as argued by Hudson, who sought to make rhetoric the center of the speech discipline. (PD)

The academic career of Torsten Husen is described. He sees being a professor as having "the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge as a main preoccupation, which to a large extent means to read, think, and write," as well as to be able to guide young people. (Author/MLW)

In briefly tracing the history of music studies in American higher education, the author notes that, as conservatories of music were absorbed by general colleges and universities, conflicts of goals and procedures between conservatory faculty and parent university often went unresolved and that lack of music department assimilation still exists.…

The hostile and suspicion-laden relationship between management and the faculty union of Ontario's 22 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology is chronicled and the evolution of this relationship is interpreted in terms of British industrial relations theory. (MSE)