Reports on teacher education provide information on the following: the rationale versus the reality in teacher education programs from a student viewpoint by Joellyn Rose; and integrating practice and theory in teacher education curriculums. Abstracts of articles in this area include teaching learning processes in observation seminars, and the…

The factors of camp environment are examined from the point of view of the psychologist and the camp director to determine relevant factors for study. Research methods now being utilized in the areas of staff selection, camper attitudes, site management, and administrative programming are discussed. The primary roles of the camp director are…

The legal aspects of many campus issues were the concerns of the conference "Higher Education: The Law and Institutional Response." The central purpose of the conference was to present and discuss judicial decisions and trends and their implications for and applications to the posture of academic decisionmaking. The issues of concern…

This booklet contains the texts of speeches given at the 1968 National Organization on Legal Problems of Education conference on school law. The topics covered in the speeches include student rights, dress codes, defacto segregation, education and religious freedom, doctoral dissertations in school law, master contracts, and teacher strikes. (JF)

The bibliography provides access to some of the latest research findings or developments in community education. Thirty-nine documents and 47 journal articles published between 1956 and 1973 (with the majority between 1969 and 1973) are cited. The citations and abstracts have appeared in "Research in Education" and in "Current Index…

A study that investigated variables associated with the transfer process and the academic performance of students of the Lehigh County Community College (LCCC) who transferred to 4-year institutions during a defined fourteen and one-half month period is summarized. Information was sought as to colleges attended by the LCCC transfers, the validity…

This report discusses a study made to obtain information that would improve the quality of the Bakersfield College nursing-education program and lead to a better match between supply and demand in the nursing labor market in the Bakersfield area. The five parts of the report are: 1. Methodology; 2. Results of Responses to Questionnaire Items; 3.…

Various aspects of faculty workload are reviewed, with emphasis on definitions of workload and on major problems in developing workload formulas. Attention is also given to the erosion of parietal policies, the quality versus quantity issue, and the effect of collective bargaining on workloads. For most instructors, the important factors are the…

The minutes of a meeting sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is presented. Thirty-one representatives, primarily from the library community, met at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on July 19, 1974, for an ARL-sponsored meeting to discuss a recently-completed feasibility study of a computer-based system for…

As part of the first year activities of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), a survey was made of existing bibliographic information centers and information processing activities across the country. Reports are presented on the activities of each of the 11 centers identified. A bibliography of information about computerized…

In this fourth volume of a four-volume report on the activities of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), two studies are reported. The first was a study of the feasibility of marketing bibliographic and census data base products and services via NASIC. It represented an attempt to build a profile of the potential market for…

This study analyzes Los Angeles City College (LACC) records for a six-semester period of students who took the Guidance Examination in fall 1970 and scored in the lowest quintile on both the vocabulary and reading sections of the examination. This score indicated that their reading level was at the eighth-grade level or lower. The students were…

A letter and a questionnaire (provided in appendixes) were mailed to 122 2-year colleges in the North Central Accrediting region in an attempt to identify the common denominators and institutional differences related to the general education mathematics program in the 2-year college. Of 96 questionnaires returned, 86 were included in the study.…

Recent studies confirm that organized labor's role in society does not get fair treatment in the social studies and American history courses of the nation's schools. The report covers the first stage of AFL-CIO efforts in dealing with this problem, bringing together concerned persons in labor and education. Following the opening of the conference…

The papers presented are of broad scope, both from the viewpoint of approaches to cooperation and types of library involved. Major emphasis is placed on data processing within library networks and in cooperative processing centers. General overviews on library networking operations are presented. The components and configurations of library…