Five papers are presented which highlight a number of services which have been organized or proposed by students at City College of San Francisco. All of the services described are as beneficial to the students who administer them as to the students who utilize them. (Author/CB)

Curriculum change has rarely been examined as a political process of interaction, influence, and the use of social power for realigning community values. (Author)

Contains responses of the National Manpower Advisory Committee to the career education concept, which raised several caveats, more as constructive criticism than in opposition to the concept. (Author/SB)

There's a lot more to it than taking your students on a field trip or bringing guest speakers into the classroom. Don't leave out the learning objective, say the authors, in offering other sound advice. (Editor)

Discusses the role of the accreditation process for library education programs as assigned to the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association and offers criteria for measurement of programs and suggestions for change of present guidelines and quality standards. Three references are included. (EJS)

The relationship between linguistic processes, cognitive activities, and social structures is explored by examining the decision-making of committees of educators deciding whether or not to place students in special education programs. Differential treatment of committee members is explained by the authority their reports gain by their language…

Describes the activities of a selection committee made up of university faculty members which was charged with choosing a new computer for academic and research computing at Queens University in Ontario. Aspects of the committee's internal workings and dealings with vendors and the campus community are discussed. (Author/JL)

The findings in Volume I of the Committee on Ability Testing's report (see ED 213 770 and ED 213 771) are shown to be ambiguous regarding the meaning of ability, vague regarding test validity, and ingenuous regarding test uses and misuse. The neglect of the basic question of what tests measure is noted. (CM)

Community advisory committees can enhance park and recreation departments that are determined to remain flexible and keep pace with constituents' needs. Nine guidelines for using these committees are given concerning selection of members, defining the committee role, conducting meetings, and preparing department staff to deal with committees. (PP)