Provides an analysis of 20 years of research and graduate study experiences in engineering colleges, focusing on 17 variables including full-time, faculty, part-time faculty, master's enrollment, doctoral enrollment, master's/doctoral degrees awarded, researchers, research expenditures, and number of research projects. (JN)

The origins, history, and impact of Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council university fellowship program, designed to stimulate research activity among young faculty, are discussed. (MSE)

The Carnegie-Mellon University Program in Technology Humanities, which has been renamed the Program in Technology and Society, is described. The program was initiated in 1975 to stimulate interest, teaching, and research in the relationship between technology and society. The major achievements of the program in relation to its courses, support…

The Bulletin of Higher Education, published by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India, is presented. Contents pertain to the following: the Journal of Higher Education; the Seventh Conference of Vice-Chancellors, 1975; the College Science Improvement Program; selection of additional colleges under the College Humanities and Social…

National estimates of activities of science and engineering faculty in universities and four-year colleges for 1978-1979 are examined, based on a National Science Foundation survey of faculty members in 20 science and engineering (S/E) fields. Individual respondents provided information for only one 7-day period; however, the survey sample was…