The structural ambiguity of American professional schools is considered, with attention to the academic branches of business and medicine. Differences in the nature of clinical-academic tensions in business and medical schools are explored, along with the structural sources of these differences. Trends within professional schools during the early…

This guide provides information and guidelines intended to assist vocational administrators in developing and evaluating programs to improve the basic skills of vocational-technical students. Part one provides background information about basic skills and examines their role in vocational education. Discussed next are various program types,…

The comprehensive educational policies adopted and incorporated into law by the Navajo Tribal Council are contained in this booklet. These policies, adopted during a special session of the Navajo Tribal Council (November 13-16, 1984), are broad statements of the educational needs and aspirations of the Navajo people. The mission statement defines…

The federally funded Special Services for Disadvantaged Students (SSDS) program is examined for the 1979-80 academic year in 58 institutions; the program's short-term impact on participating freshmen is summarized. Up to 200 students at each site were studied to determine whether program participation levels correlated with outcomes and whether…

Newspaper articles, monographs, government publications, and magazine articles dealing with education in Pakistan are cited in this annotated bibliography. All items included were published between April and June 1981. Citations are organized by the following subject areas: administration, organization, and planning of education; adult education;…

Proceedings of the University/Urban Schools Task Force conference on what works in urban schools are summarized in this report. The future direction of the Task Force, articulated by conference participants, is described as a move toward the conceptualization and design of programs to teach thinking skills versus programs that mainly teach subject…

An annotated bibliography on the occupational aspirations of minority college students as related to graduate business education is presented with most entries dated 1964 to 1978. Twenty-two selected studies relating to minority aspirations are annotated. In addition, supplementary materials include 51 entries without annotations, 15 nonannotated…

An annotated bibliography of more than 200 entries on minority access to professional education covers journal articles, professional association publications, institutional program and research reports, government documents, congressional hearings, conference proceedings, law review articles, and government agency reports. Citations, dated 1969…

The University of Idaho's video outreach graduate program is described. The program is designed to provide continuing education, credit courses, and graduate degree-granting programs anywhere in the state by producing these programs on video cassette and Betamax formats. Presently the Master of Engineering in electrical and Mechanical Engineering…

This module, one in a series of competency-based administrator instructional packages, focuses on a specific competency that vocational education administrators need to be successful in the area of personnel management. The purpose of the module is to help administrators develop skills for training staff about procedures, maintaining personnel…

This document is a supplementary component of a multicomponent workshop package designed for training and staff development efforts for postsecondary education personnel. The package was designed to assist college and university personnel to gain: (1) an understanding of the manifestations and the effects of sex discrimination and sex bias in…

Australian school administration, according to the author of this bibliography, is currently moving away from a traditional, centralized structure and toward structures calling for the participation of subordinates or outsiders. The journal articles and books catalogued in this document treat several of the ramifications of these changes in…

Basic problems associated with the role of college faculty, working conditions and situational adjustments, and interpersonal relationships are investigated. Unresolved problems and the social structural circumstances that generate and perpetuate them are also examined. The sociological literature regarding the potential problems in academic work…

The proceedings of the annual conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research, whose theme was "Planning for Quality," are presented. The 26 papers were divided into the following topics: admissions, assessment, enrollment, faculty and staff, outcomes, planning, programs and retention, the environment, and the field of…

The rapidity with which information processing equipment is changing has necessitated the development of business and office occupations curricula with a more generalized approach to the technology of information processing. Educational planners should use a systems approach rather than the more traditional components approach to develop curricula…