Author examined the community college, which he believes has the peculiar assets and potential to meet the need for providing a liberal education for large numbers of Americans. (Author/RK)

An analysis of the effectiveness of a variety of rhetorical and stylistic presentational modes. (CH)

Discusses the structure in history as a guide to learning more about the present and as an aid toward understanding the assorted events of history. (RK)

Presents a preview of the report by the National Academy of Science Physics Survey Committee, which deals principally with the opportunities for physicists during the 1970's. The 14 chapter report, to be available by midsummer of 1972, considers physics in a broad context and perspective both in science and technology and in the whole of the…

The editorial raises questions for curriculum designers: Should standards of physics content be lowered to meet lower academic ability? How much emphasis should physics be given? How much specialization is suitable? When should specialization be introduced? (PS)

In new freshman program students spend 37 percent of their time in mathematics physics course, 25 percent in humanities, and 38 percent in one of three electives and their choice of a chemistry or engineering course. Program exposes students to career alternatives in engineering or science professions. (WM)

Author looks at some current trends and enumerates some strategies for implementing differentiated staffing. (Author/MM)

Rigid college entrance requirements screen out the majority of Soviet youths. (Editor)

The university must become the intellectual "Main Street of the World" to educate the multifaceted man of the future. (Editor)

Sixty-five percent of physicians entering their first professional positions leave the counties of their residencies, following a national migration trend to the Sun Belt. Most of these were in nonprimary care specialties and moved into self-employment or office-based practices, were disproportionately male, and moved to smaller urban or nonurban…

Higher education's contemporary emergence as a scholarly specialty is compared with the development of some other specialities--economics, political science, sociology. An interpretation of how fields become disciplines is offered and some parallels between the social sciences at the turn of the century and higher education today are explored.…

Arguments for and against extension of dental education to a mandatory five years because of current overcrowding of dental curriculum are presented in debate form. Affirmative arguments center on the inefficacy of restructuring existing curricula, and arguments against focus on current curricular inefficiency, costs, and other practical…