Describes Loyola University chemistry faculty training program. Areas addressed during the program include admissions (tests and test interpretation, financial aids, student selection), academic/psychological/moral student counseling, professional relations, curriculum/instruction (planning, strategies, teaching aids, grading), and professional…

Many institutions are reviewing their consulting policy statements to determine their adequacy in light of pressures to more closely monitor outside work by their faculty. Confusion and confrontation over "control" of noninstitutional work for compensation is present. (Author/MLW)

Highlighting the growing interest in collaborative efforts, the author discusses the problems and challenges that have made cooperation necessary. He details the benefits of collaboration to higher education and to business/industry, and gives examples of local, regional, and national successes. (SK)

Suggests that school publications advisers should become fully qualified, join advisers' organizations, reach an understanding with school officials, develop publication guidelines, be familiar with laws, train student journalists, help them understand the community, anticipate problems, and keep the local media informed of school activities. (FL)

Unclear professional norms create problems of role conflict for program evaluators. Four circumstances that produce role conflict and suggestions for dealing with each one are examined. The influence of organizational context on role conflicts is also considered. (Author)

There are two principal reasons for separating teacher education institutions from higher education institutions: (1) Schools of education are unable to achieve essential autonomy as long as they are part of traditional institutions of higher education; and (2) The location of teacher education programs in universities precludes involvement of…

The West Virginia School Health Association proposes that certification assures that a school nurse employed by the board of education is subject to the same regulatory procedures and educational requirements of other school professionals. (JN)

Corporate Occupational Information System (COIS) is a computerized information retrieval program through which data on occupations and projects within a company can be accessed. It lists existing opportunities and identifies requirements necessary for individual positions. (JOW)

Draws on recent research on adult development for a conceptual base in examining personal and professional developmental potentials, tasks, and conflicts for college faculty in five categories: Age 30 Transition, Dual Career Couple, Midlife, Late-Entry, and Senior Retiring faculty. Three charts and an 80-item reference list are included. (JL)

Madison Elementary School District in Phoenix (Arizona) uses five evaluation forms--measuring goal accomplishment, performance of assigned duties, professional growth, peer rating, and subordinate rating--to yield numerical bases for administrator merit pay increases. Samples of an evaluation form, performance profile, and merit pay increase…

Traditionally, the professional growth and development of school administrators has been left up to the individual. A model for alternative administrator training has five basic operational criteria: collaboration; peer leadership; a sound cognitive base; experiential activities; and an ongoing support system. (JN)

A two-year study of the factors suspected of influencing the fairness of the peer review system (including the prestige of an institutional affiliation and the influence this might have in molding reviewers' opinions) is discussed. (MLW)

Negative implications should be assessed before extending preservice education programs. Although a longer, more demanding professional program would have a positive effect on the professional status of teaching, it may also discourage qualified applicants who are not interested in spending five or six years in preparation for a relatively low…

Examined attitudes of 53 community college presidents, previously deans of student affairs. Data indicated ways in which current deans might prepare for the presidency or influence policy at their colleges. Presents suggestions arising from the research. (Author)

Continuing nursing education is discussed: its contribution to the profession's currency by increasing the knowledge base for practice; its relation to the autonomy of the profession; its contribution to direct access to baccalaureate education for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses; and its effects on clients. (CT)