Assumptions about liberal arts education need to be reexamined, the environment in which they are taught needs to be restructured, the mechanics of the learning and teaching activities must be reviewed, and a balance must be found between objectivity and human judgment. (MSE)

The implications of Americans' oral health status for the predoctoral dental curriculum and for dental education in general are discussed, including enrollments, graduate and continuing education, the specialties, and research. (MSE)

The applicability of the principle of comparable pay for comparable worth is discussed for college faculty jobs, not only for alleviation of sex discrimination but also for eliminating bias-related discrepancies between departments or specialties. (MSE)

The approach to foreign language courses, required of students at Northern Illinois University, is to assist students in learning in their areas of specialization, while at the same time structuring the activities for group learning. The assumption is that it is the kind of participation in learning activities that gives significance to the…

Johns Hopkins University has abandoned use of the Medical College Admission Test as a medical college admissions requirement in an effort to reestablish the validity of humanities in medical students' educational background and is encouraging other medical schools to make the test optional and underscore their support of general education. (MSE)

One key to the understanding of the current style and character of American educational practice and purpose lies in the history of the professions--the growth of the professionalized specialists who define modern society. (MLW)

The battle to reform general education within American higher education will be lengthy, with a slim chance of success, partly due to a conflict of approaches and the trend toward specialization. One way to link the liberal arts curriculum to modern students' experience is to open the dialogue more broadly. (MSE)

The proportion of geography doctoral dissertations by American students containing foreign-area research has declined sharply the last few decades. Reasons for the decline are examined, and implications for the discipline of geography are discussed. (RM)

Discussion of the effect on the workforce of the application of electronic data processing technologies to information handling activities highlights task specialization; white collar alienation; feelings of powerlessness, meaninglessness, and normlessness in workers; the chronology of automation; and experimentation and communication. Nineteen…

Current efforts and emphases in higher education in Byelorussia, aimed at improving the training of technological and scientific specialists, are discussed. Among the topics of current research are curriculum development, teaching methods and management, training for professionalism and communism, teaching aids, and economic management in higher…

The increase in the number of women and the decline in the number of foreign medical graduates in U.S. medicine were studied by comparing the specialty distributions of house officers in the 1973-74 and 1979-80 training years. Implications are discussed in the context that there is a physician surplus. (Author/MLW)

Data on medical school faculty salaries from 1973 to 1983 are analyzed to reveal trends in purchasing power for basic and clinical sciences faculty by rank. Both groups reached a low in purchasing power in the 1980-81 period, and some differential was found between the faculty types and between academic ranks. (MSE)

Positive aspects and drawbacks of extending master of library science programs to two years are discussed by the library school deans at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of South Carolina. Curriculum, specialization, internship programs, apprenticeships in teaching and research, and student and faculty viewpoints are…

In order to retain their viability, colleges of education must develop an organizational pattern that supports faculty specialization, programs of differing organizational needs, and control of laboratory resources. (MB)

The writer's intention is to sketch out a general statement about an approach to rearranging within secondary schools. (Author/RK)