An academic planning conference is reported, with articles included on several topics pertaining to faculty members. A summary and agenda of the 1979 conference on "Ethical and Economic Issues Concerning Academic Professionalism and Compensation in an Era of Accountability, Limits, and Inflation" are presented. An article on faculty…

The major resource for instructors in training for the Earlham College Wilderness Program, this manual covers the philosophy, academics, teaching methodology, and logistics of the program. It is designed as a field manual for the month-long programs (either mountaineering or canoeing) offered to Earlham students and contains information most…

A study was done to assist the U.S. Office of Education in ascertaining whether there is the need and desire for mayor and city involvement in the area of consumer education and to assist the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) in determining whether or not its role in the promotion and establishment of priorities for consumer education for cities…

The use of faculty activity data in higher education is discussed and the issue of whether the chairperson or the faculty member's estimates of how time was spent should determine resource expenditures is addressed. A historical review indicates that this type of data has been a concern of higher education for the past three decades. This…

This study deals with the problems of teacher education programs and suggests some methods for improvement. The pressures and restrictions currently levied on the field of teacher education are discussed, and an examination is given of various education departments' admission policies and procedures. Profiles of education students and faculty…

Current attention to the inclusion of handicapped persons, both the physically impaired and the adult learning disabled, into the total college structure provides an overdue focus on the services necessary to allow equal participation in the college experience. Although this participation, mandated by law, is expensive, it is in keeping with the…

In October 1977, surveys were mailed to all junior and senior colleges and universities in Texas to determine what methods and criteria were used to assign Fine Arts faculty load. Usable responses were obtained from 39 junior and 39 senior institutions. The survey contained 35 open-ended questions in the following areas: (1) standard faculty load…

This study investigates the family and school influences on reading and mathematics achievement for students in a voluntarily desegregated school district. General findings suggest that the best main-effects predictors of both reading and mathematics achievement are prior levels of achievement in each area. However, further analysis of the data…

Data from 258 supervisors of teachers of the deaf who replied to a self administered questionnaire yielded information on the nature of supervisory programs. Of 108 day supervisors (D), 23% were supervisors only while 77% were also either teachers or administrators. One-third reported three-fourths to full time devoted to supervision; one-third…

An analysis presents the many factors which enter into the process of reorganizing two central school districts into a larger, more effective district. The analysis follows the two districts through the reorganization procedure and into resulting administrative and financial problems. The involvement and influence of the State Education Department…

The personal liability of community college administrators and trustees hinges on the judicial interpretation of 42 USC Section 1983, the Civil Rights Act of 1871. That federal statute allows individuals such as students and teachers to recover money damages from those state officials who have violated their federal rights. Addressed to the…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter examines the human ecology of school crime. It explores the relationship between the structure of the school as a social system and the dynamics of student and staff behavior. The central thesis is that schools become "out of control" when they are large and…

Evaluation is an act of persuasion directed to a specific audience concerning the solution of a problem. The process of evaluation is prescribed by the nature of knowledge--which is generally complex, always uncertain (in varying degrees), and not always propositional--and by the nature of logic, which is always selective. In the process of…

In 1976 the National American Indian Court Judges Association was awarded a one year contract to study Indian court systems, identify their main strengths and weaknesses, develop a set of model standards, name four model courts with whom to test the model standards, and propose a five year plan of support for Indian courts. Written materials…

The essays on the topic of citizenship education were compiled for the founding retreat of the Alliance for Citizen Education held in Philadelphia on June 24-26, 1977. Written by both citizen educators and political theorists, the essays are polemical in tone and were intended to stimulate dialogue at the retreat. The readings are a mixture of…