The emergence of managed care has placed many new demands on practicing psychologists. To ensure that graduate students are gaining the skills necessary to function effectively in the current healthcare environment, training programs may need to modify their curricula. Recently, the American Psychological Association assembled a task force to…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a four-year federal grant providing technical assistance and training for service providers of children with deafblindness in Delaware. The project included annual orientation workshops for new staff, family learning weekends, and eight summer institute graduate courses jointly…

Higher education under State control and partial State support has been accepted in principle by each of the 48 States. The extent of support and the method of control vary greatly from State to State but there has been universal acceptance of the principle that higher education is at least in part a State responsibility. In carrying out this…

This bulletin discusses the status of agricultural education from 1916-1918. Contents include: (1) Agriculture in secondary schools; (2) The elementary schools; (3) Agricultural education at meetings; (4) Agricultural education in other countries; (5) Educational work of the Department of Agriculture; (6) The agricultural colleges; (7)…

Presented at "Translation 73," a conference on the present state of literary translation, Columbia University, March 30, 1973. (DD)

Article discusses recent study by the Academic Long Range Planning Committee of the College of St. Catherine, in which questionnaires were sent to admissions offices of 143 graduate schools in the U.S. in an attempt to measure their attitudes towards nongraded transcripts. Reaction was generally unfavorable. (JB)

Although Japan's 19th century feudalistic education system was abolished at the close of World War II and the country has wrought the greatest economic miracle in world history, the Japanese still assign low priorities to health and medical education. (IR)

Describes a two-quarter sequence of graduate courses in numerical methods and modeling for chemical engineers. Rationale, course content, methodology, topic development, and such course requirements as homework and design projects are considered. Emphasis is placed on the treatment of numerical methods implemented in commercial software. (JM)

The sociological context of magazine advertisements, particularly gender role descriptions, can be used to develop students' visual literacy. The techniques described are usually employed as an initial exercise in sensitizing undergraduate or graduate students to some of the issues involved in the content analysis of visual media. (Author/RM)

Reflections on the interior life of the teacher reveal many hidden aspects that influence how, what, and why they teach. The question of why little attention is paid to these aspects is brought up. (CJ)

The counselor education staff at Georgia Southern College conducted two intensive follow-up studies to determine how graduates of the program viewed their preparation. Procedures used in the study are described, and results are presented. (PP)