The author describes the growing movement toward accreditation for human resources development professionals. She covers the issue of diversity, undergraduate versus graduate degrees, and future trends. (CH)

The Consent Decree is a policy with the goal of eliminating segregation and inequalities in higher education in Louisiana. To the detriment of Black institutions, the policy has not been fully implemented because of problems with course assessment, funding, and lack of serious commitment to dismantling previous discriminatory practices. (VM)

The National Technological University, a consortium of engineering schools, offers programs based on satellite transmissions of live and videotaped graduate courses to industrial sites around the country. (MSE)

Identifies factors deemed important for the graduate education of chemists. Considers quality of formal course structure, infrastructure of chemistry, faculty, creativity, survival values, and attitude. Appraises current and desired status of factors. (ML)

Lists alphabetically the definitions of key organic-based terms used in characterizing the structure of polymers. Includes several common polymers, some of their uses and their respective structures. (CW)

Reviewed is the status of minority graduate students in engineering. Discussed are graduate participation, institutional barriers, a national agenda and commitment to minority success in engineering. A list of suggestions to improve minority recruitment and retention and statistical information are included. (CW)

The Duke University academic council restored tough language to a resolution of a faculty panel charged with finding ways to improve recruiting of Black professors, also urging Duke to double its number of Black doctoral candidates, set up a postdoctoral program, and support graduate training for Black undergraduates. (MLW)

English studies, especially at the graduate level, have depended on coverage of an agreed-upon group of literary works, but new scholarly approaches have led some scholars to change that group, calling into question some basic tenets of graduate education in English and suggesting a need for new directions. (MSE)

Top business schools in the 1980's have sent more students to Wall Street's investment and brokerage houses than in past years when the schools were considered training grounds for corporate managers. With Wall Street's gyrations, business students are thinking about jobs in marketing and sales. (MLW)

Journal publication frequencies of faculty members (N=892) of 81 doctorate-granting special education programs were analyzed with program reputational rankings. Mean program and per-capita frequencies over 5 years were 17.06 and 1.60 (respectively) and correlated positively but weakly with reputational rankings, suggesting that reputation is only…

The Harkness fellowships bring young students from Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand for graduate study, research, professional experience, and travel in the United States. Many past fellows have gone on to positions of leadership in government, business, academe, and the arts in their countries. (MSE)

Analysis of the effects of social class, sex, race, and undergraduate grade-point average on rank and status in graduate professional schools indicated that differences do exist in ranking or attendance at professional schools, based on gender, race, previous rank at undergraduate school, and social status. (CB)

Teacher training programs, graduate schools of education, and local school districts must work together to create a new, revitalized teaching corps. These efforts might include a five-year teacher preparation program, greater use of current teacher effectiveness research, stronger collaborative relationships, and improved professional continuing…

The design and success of the Netherlands' new researcher training system are discussed. It is concluded that the system conforms more to the natural sciences model than the social sciences model of professionalization and should adopt a different, more supportive approach to the student. (MSE)

Management, which generates wealth, determines the distribution of wealth, and helps control the direction and accessibility of careers in most developed countries, is a subject worthy of the humanities, and deserves to be pursued more aggressively as a point of contact among disciplines. (MSE)