The 20 articles in this collection concern issues faced by couples in academe. One group of articles considers part-time careers, independent scholarly work, or intermittent employment, which may be viable alternatives for women with families or those who feel less need for a full-time job. The need for institutional policies to support part-time…

The assessment of strategies for the recruitment of first-time, full-time graduate and first-professional students was undertaken to determine ways and means of attracting full-time black graduate students as part of the state effort to desegregate its higher education system. This report has three parts: a summary of the recruitment strategies,…

Questionnaires were mailed to a sample of 1,980 non-returning, non-occupational students who had been enrolled at Cerritos College during spring 1976 but did not return in fall 1976, in order to test the applicability of the California community college Student Accountability Model (SAM), a statewide follow-up system for occupational students, to…

School-related time allocations of students, including time at home, as reported in sample surveys of students, teachers, and parents, are examined for systematic relations to socioeconomic indicators, controlling for ability. Special attention is paid to teacher-influenced student time allocations such as instructional time and homework. The aim…

Data on full-time tenured, full-time nontenured and part-time faculty at Montgomery College were gathered to determine the ratio of males to females by status and by department and to relate this information to hiring practices, fringe benefits, and teaching loads. Total figures for part- and full-time faculty and credit hours taught were compiled…

The book, written for intermediate grade students, describes leisure time occupations in a format that can be used for independent study or as a supplement to classroom instruction. The specific careers described and illustrated are grouped into seven general categories: food service, conservation, lodging, outdoors, entertainment and sports,…

This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the development of the use and understanding of locative and temporal prepositions in 94 children aged from 18 months to 8 years. The research was carried out as part of the Project "Language Development in Pre-School Children," directed by Gordon Wells, at the University of…

Elusive developmental processes are most often examined in the context of the philosophic problem of scientific determinism. The Markov process model, enhancing a probabilistic viewpoint for the explanation of developmental data, should be restricted. Attention should be focused on the immediate context and situational setting of a subject. The…

As part of the Army's adoption of performance-oriented instruction in Army Training centers, a study was conducted to determine the feasibility of using sefl-paced instruction without programed texts in a clerical and computational skills course. Course organization, course management, and effective instructional techniques for self-paced training…

The trainer-directed manual describes a 45-minute school staff orientation session of not more than 30 participants in which individual independence and societal interdependence, in terms of leisure time activities, are discussed. Classroom implementation of this concept is then explored. The purpose, activities, outcomes, duration, setting,…

This monograph reviews the faculty teaching the humanities in two-year colleges: their backgrounds and preparation, involvement with inservice training, job satisfaction, attitudes and values, and approaches to curriculum and instruction. Information was derived by an extensive search of the literature. Materials were identified by scanning 34…

This report provides data on the faculty and staff of the Hawaii community college system as of fall 1975. It focuses on full-time appointees, but also provides information on lecturers, part-time appointees, and professional staff on leave. Data are summarized by five program categories: instructional support, academic support, student services,…

This book, one in a series which deals with perspectives of American education, discusses the purposes of the educational system, formal and informal. The purpose of the series is to help create a better understanding of the educative process and the relation of education to human affairs. In chapter one the author discusses the bedrock realities…

This overview presents some of the issues that face those concerned with post baccalaureate education, particularly these issues that emerge from new activities and proposals before the graduate community currently. Three sections and an appendix are presented. Covered are: (1) definitions and distinctions; (2) issue-clusters in the areas of the…

The product of a lecture series on the role of the rural church and community in the face of a changing society, this collection of 13 speeches includes: (1) "The Face of Poverty: An Economist's View" (insights into the process of identifying and serving the rural poor, emphasizing interdependence); (2) "Regionalism as a New Basis…