This guide to people, courses, and institutions concerned with women's studies provides a view of the movement's size and scope and a record of the movement's history. Designed to provide an overview of the institutional development of courses, the pioneering instructors, and the sponsoring departments, the guide is intended for use by feminist…

College students responded to a questionnaire designed to measure students' satisfaction with their academic major programs. Hierarchical factor analyses producted four factors in both undergraduate and graduate samples: perception of value in program; satisfaction with instruction; satisfaction with faculty mentorship; and overall satisfaction…

The article describes a program in which students from Boston University's Department of Movement, Health, and Leisure, enrolled in the course "Motor Learning Theory and Laboratory," assist in assessing and providing individually tailored programs of motor training for deaf-blind children at the Perkins School for the Blind. (DLS)

A survey of law schools and Asian studies programs within universities was undertaken to assess teaching and research concerning Asian legal systems at institutions of higher learning in the United States. Appendices include the survey questionnaires and lists of faculty members and universities involved in Asian studies. (JMD)

Authors Bailey, Roos, and Cabello discuss the potential effects on school admissions and minority preference programs as a result of the impending Supreme Court decision on the Bakke case. (HLM)

Presents a definition of cooperative education on the college level and outlines some of the advantages a cooperative program offers to the student, the employer, and the university. (HMV)

The article discusses the cost-effective use of faculty and facilities in associate degree nursing programs, as a large number of programs with small classes is uneconomical. Appraisal of admissions to reach an enrollment level sufficient to justify program cost is suggested. (MF)

This replication of a 1971 study compared students' and parents' attitudes toward 32 issues of university life. The results indicate that there was little change in the attitudes of students and parents over the four-year period since the first study. Basic areas of agreement and disagreement between students and parents remained. (Author)

Describes the history of the community college movement as it relates to community college English teachers and their training. (MKM)

The president of the American College Health Association discusses accountability; managerial, fiscal, and human, on the part of college health service departments. (JD)

Examines a number of problems raised by the practice among many colleges and universities of granting academic credit for what is generally termed "life experience". (Author/RK)

Students not fitting the traditional pattern of white middle class backgrounds are labeled new students. (JP)

A strategy is outlined for implementing a field training program in urban anthropology in which students are exposed to many research methods and at the same time allowed to see research projects through from inception to completion. In evaluating an implemented summer program, the authors state that the multiple-project approach was the main key…

To determine reasons for leaving college, interviews were conducted with 108 undergraduate students who dropped out of an historically black university. Responses from the retention study were used to develop an action program designed to retain enrolled students and to help nonreturning students adjust to their new status. (Author/NB)

The chemistry division of Tarleton State University (Texas) conducts a summer program for gifted/talented high-school students, to expose them to chemistry research and to college-level chemistry. Students complete chemistry course work and study with an organic chemist, an inorganic chemist, and a physical scientist on the university faculty.…