This booklet reports on a study of food service functions in Texas schools. The report contains examples taken from previous school reviews and is based on the state Comptroller's instruction that the best practices identified by the Texas School Performance Review team be communicated to all the state's school districts. Some examples present…

Presents eight readers' letters and one editor's reply in which discussions are related to effects of zero-population growth on scientific creativity, employment crisis of industrial physicists, efficiency of ionic pumps, and the naming system of laws and effects in physics. (CC)

Discusses the current plight of four-year colleges, especially the English departments, as a result of the economic squeeze. (RB)

A special report on the handling of dismissal cases in U.S. law, contract, and custom. (Editor)

A longitudinal analysis using data from such sources as the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census Current Population Reports. (JM)

Teachers will benefit from the Social Security amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-603, including Medicare coverage, increased cash benefits, and liberalization of the amount a retiree may earn while collecting social security benefits. (DS)

Study finds little coordination between rehabilitation efforts and employment. (Editor)

The information presented details the number of minority professional staff employed in student affairs at NASPA member institutions, their level of employment, the number employed primarily with minority programs, and the number of such persons affiliated with NASPA. (Author)

Tenure, with its blanket protection, is the price paid for the benefits of encouraging faculty to stray from the comfortable path of orthodoxy and to challenge the rationalizations used to maintain it. The psychological trauma of abolishing tenure would be enormous and disruptive. (MSE)

This study investigated the existence of race and sex discrimination in the evaluation of job applicant resumes sent to personnel directors of 200 corporations across the United States. The results show that identification of race generated more replies but fewer numbers of positive responses than when race was not identified. (Author/CT)

Presents a weekly schedule of topics and related reading assignments for a social management and technology course focusing on technology, work, and productivity. Broad topics include introduction, historical background, problems of the contemporary workplace, and alternatives. (DC)

A study conducted to identify college student perceptions of business found that the students agreed that the primary goal of business is to make a profit. Over three-fourths of the students felt that major industries are dominated by a few firms and that businesses are too powerful. (LRA)