Describes architectural education in America (schools, curricula, students) and suggests some improvements for architectural schools. (PG)

The deans of all professional schools in the U.S. that are accredited and university-affiliated were asked to name the schools within their professions they considered best. The rankings are presented along with some significant additional data on professional schools. (Editor)

In spite of the severe changes in the environment of graduate education during the past 5 years, most departments have been able to adjust in ways that allow them to continue their programs. (Author)

Black students are encountering difficulty in gaining admission to graduate schools, and once in, the attrition rate is great for financial and scholastic reasons. (HS)

Successful women professionals have two commonits; they are graduates of women's colleges and unmarried. The author concludes that coeducational colleges are preoccupied with the needs of their men students and have virtually ignored those of the women. (Author/PG)

The prevailing student mood at Yale is one of academic intensity to insure professional careers by acceptance in law or medical school. This grim professionalism is regarded by many as a threat to the ideal college experience of adventurous academic and extracurricular life. (Author/PG)

Reviews recent reports on graduate education and offers the following recommendations: train specialists for social service, continue federal fellowships, develop long range planning for graduate level manpower preparation, and develop equality of access for disadvantaged and minority students. (Author/PG)

Blind to marketplace criteria, college drama departments offer too much pedagogy and too little contact with professionals who work in the theater. As a result, students receive degrees certifying only amateurism. (Author/PG)

There are too few veterinary colleges to handle the applicants and the need in the profession. (PG)

American medical schools could become the agents of health reform--if the federal government, the colleges, and the practitioners, resolve their differences. (Editor)

Annenberg is a rare research facility pioneering new approaches to the study of communications, including analysis of the practices of the communications industry (especially television and TV violence) and its influence on American life. The school's organization, philosophy, and graduate placement are described. (LBH)

The University of Miami School of Medicine offers a special 24-month intensive program that is developing a new breed of physician-scientists. It is a parallel and coordinated but separate activity, enrolling only students who have already earned a PhD. Their success has firmly established the PhD-to-MD program as a second medical curriculum. (LBH)