Describes eruption steps in Mt. St. Helens' top surface deformation: constant shaking of earthquakes, minor steaming from vents, and sudden catastrophic eruption. Explosions caused black projectile-laden ash clouds, vertical white steam clouds, and vertical gray ash-laden clouds. (SK)

Describes six televised in-service courses available to New Jersey teachers through the cooperation of the New Jersey Education Association, Monmouth College, and New Jersey Public Television. For each course, teachers view the programs at home or at school and then attend two regionalized all-day practicums. (SJL)

Presents the history of a graduate course on the teaching of technical communication, its content, goals and achievements. (RL)

Part of a graduate program in clinical community psychology was subjected to a jury trial as a form of program evaluation. The theory of the trial as evaluation, the problems of implementation, and a post-trial evaluation are discussed. (Author/MH)

Declining enrollments, eroding institutional support, and an increase in the number of library schools are indicative of an eventual decrease in the quality of graduate library education. Contradictions in current accreditation standards support the need for further discussion of the accreditation process. (FM)

Argues that graduate education in rhetoric may become the central core of study in speech communication in the 1980s and may assume added significance in the humanities and social sciences. The reconceptualization of rhetoric as an architectonic and productive art will require a restructured graduate curriculum. (JMF)

Discusses standards and methods for evaluating graduate programs in speech communication, with emphasis on doctoral programs. Includes a discussion of characteristics of program quality and suggestions for internal and external review. (JMF)

Identifies recent comparative and rating studies on graduate and professional schools collected through an extensive literature search and a survey of 84 major, national, professional, and scholarly associations. The bibliography is coded to indicate the general thrust of its ratings or comparisons. (CWM)

Some background information is given about the GRE. A detailed account of its construction, its recent history, and some of the thinking that has gone into it is related. (MP)

Examines the definitions of information science, the general development of information science education, and its present status in graduate library education in Canada, including specific lists of courses offered and a list of information science topics. (CWM)

Describes and contrasts selected graduate programs so that patterns and directions of this emerging field can be examined by the community of educational researchers, and reviews the programs of a few major institutions in an attempt to define general characteristics among, and differences between them. (Author/JEG)

Concerned with graduate-level political science instruction focusing on teaching and research rather than skills students need to survive in discipline, such as publishing. Provides summary of situation, explanation for the situation, and brief description of some educational programs. (ND)

The author discusses his experiences in a black college and a graduate program at M.I.T., and how his career goals changed with his experiences. (IRT)

Reports results of a survey of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication members exploring the presence of sexual harassment in mass communications graduate programs. Finds that nearly 15% of respondents reported experiencing it. Investigates effects of such behavior on graduate students who experience it and how power…