Physical educators have been over-attentive to the technical and professional prerequisites perceived as necessary for a first job or graduate school. Yet, all students need a sound liberal education if they are going to be contributing members of a society and live rich, productive, and rewarding lives. (MT)

Library schools need to reorganize in order to permit specialization in such fields as archivy, special materials or special groups. The philosophy behind such a move is presented. Special mention is made of the position of the archivist within library science. (DH)

Library group practice bears striking similarities to medical group practice, both in rationale and patterns of service. Library group practice is a means of enhancing professional achievement, improving rate of productivity in libraries, and thereby offering one way in which information can be marketed by libraries at an acceptable price. (8…

The establishment of distinct disciplines within the social sciences was clearly a benefit in the development of knowledge and of differential approaches and conceptualizations. The discarding of those disciplines would be regressive and the promotion of interaction between disciplines will facilitate the growth of knowledge. (JB)

Despite the knowledge explosion and increased research, the answers to the "great unsolved questions in biology are no closer to solution than they were fifty years ago. (Author/AP)

Paper presented at the Council of Academic Societies Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2-5, 1968.

A cost-benefit analysis was conducted to assist the dean of UCLA Graduate School of Education in awarding a newly endowed faculty chair to the specialization which ranked "the highest in a benefits/cost sense." Advice is offered to evaluators considering using cost-benefit techniques in an educational setting. (Author/BW)

Argues that trends toward overspecialization in arts and design education have made it difficult for sculptors and architects to collaborate in the design of public spaces. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW England. (AM)

Defends comprehensive high schools against critics, past and present, who advocate specialized high schools or dual or tripartite systems separating college-bound from noncollege-bound students. Argues that comprehensive high schools promote social class integration and democratic values, and notes James B. Conant's role in supporting…

Argues for the holding together within a single academic field of study all or as many of the communication disciplines as possible. (PD)

The cultures of the science community and the humanities community misunderstand each other at the core, but there is more misunderstanding on the part of humanists about science than the reverse. If humanists insist that technical specialists study ethics and esthetics, what are the humanists prepared to study in return? (Author/MSE)

The Institute for Research in History, a nonprofit organization founded by four women that allows historians, regardless of how they make a living, to continue their work outside academe, is described. The scholarly group offers historians an opportunity to exchange ideas and gain new perspectives by working with specialists outside their fields.…

The notion that the interdisciplinary enterprise involves abandoning a discipline for a consistently holistic stance is critiqued. It is suggested that there are ways of exploring interdisciplinary relationships from the perspective of a discipline. (MLW)

Explores salary trends and changes in demand for various areas of specialization in speech communication, as they are reflected in the positions listed in the monthly "Bulletin of the Speech Communication Association Placement Service" from August 1966 through July 1978. (JMF)