Throughout the hundred years history of education for librarianship some issues have been discussed again and again without agreement being reached. A number of these are quite central to the problem of education for a profession: the desirability (or otherwise) of professional schools; the control of education by professional bodies; theory vs.…

Article examined the part played by liberal arts in educational history and projected its role in the future. (RK)

The basic purpose of the study was to determine the types and frequency of nonshorthand errors on typewritten transcripts of shorthand dictation of 40 intermediate and 34 advanced stenography students at the University of Missouri in 1970-71. (Author)

This data tape--NCES.HEGIS.TAXONOMY.FILE1981--represents a crosswalk between the old taxonomy of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) and the newer taxonomy of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). The 838 records give the old taxonomy and 4-digit codes and the new taxonomy and 6-digit codes for the conventional…

The last ten years have witnessed a nationwide proliferation of courses and programs in public relations. Consideration of the role and function of the introductory course in public relations involves the course's objectives, the methods used to teach it, and placing the course in a curricular setting so that its interrelationship with other…

Critically examines the theoretical and practical considerations involved in the setting up of a humanities interdisciplinary curriculum with a strong English component. (RB)

THIS DOCUMENT SUMMARIZES MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS OF THE GREAT PLAINS LIBRARY DURING ITS FIRST 3 YEARS OF OPERATION. THE LIBRARY IS PART OF A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION CENTERS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION MATERIALS AND COURSES. IN ADDITION TO MAKING TELEVISED COURSES AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS IN THE AREA, THE LIBRARY CONDUCTS A PROGRAM OF INFORMATION…

A COMPARISON OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 13 COLLEGES SHOWS THAT THESE DIMENSIONS ARE IMPORTANT--CURRICULUM ORGANIZATION, RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS, PATTERNS OF REGULATION AND SUPERVISION, STUDENT FACULTY RELATIONSHIPS, AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIVES. THE GUIDE FOR COLLEGE VISITS AND REPORTING WAS USED FOR DATA COLLECTION. A DESCRIPTION…

The authors present for the undergraduate and graduate linguistics student a transformational approach to the study of English grammar. Their discussion begins with a description of the structure of sentences, outlined according to the transformational grammarian's framework of linguistic universals. This set of principles "makes possible the…

The criteria (tax base, location, enrollment, curriculum, etc.) for the creation of the four types of new junior college districts as provided by Texas Public School Law and the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System are summarized. The appropriate procedures are as follows: (1) creation of a local steering committee; (2) contact…

The handbook is presented in four major parts. In part one Arthur Chickering sees college curricular change as a continuing process made necessary by conditions that are both internal and external to the college. In part two David Halliburton builds on Chickering's rationale, shifting the focus to the curriculum itself. Here he deals with the…