Overviews the recent movement toward career education within continuing education at the higher educational level, addressing the needs of Black people and particularly those of mature Black women in a college setting. (Author/JM)

Predicts that extension education services will be part of the university curriculum and a responsibility of the university administration. Paper presented at the NUEA Joint Regional Conference on November 30, 1972, in San Francisco. (DS)

Article is based on a UCLA and University of Kansas survey of black studies courses in four-year colleges, but also touches on secondary school programs. Over half of 72 respondent colleges have or plan black studies. Participating faculty still predominantly white. Emphasis varies from research to cultural history to community research. (PD)

Distinguishes between disruption and activism, and sees the latter as a vital part of higher education, particularly in the case of black universities. (JM)

A response to Theodore Hipple's The English Teacher Should Major in Education" ( English Education," vol. 2, no. 1 (Fall 1970), pp. 35-9). (RD)

The Chancellor of the California State Colleges calls for such innovations as achievement-based degrees, greater flexibility in terms of length of courses and requirements, student responsibility for independent study, and credit for work and life experience. (JM)

A brief review in trends of college populations, the number of students to be receiving degrees in different specialties, and the effect of such trends on the employment of college graduates and the future development of various professions and occupations. (JM)

An interview with Dr. Nathan Hare, reprinted from College and University Business," May 1970. Discusses the need for extending the Black Studies approach to mathematics and science, the problems of administering such programs, and the relation of Black Studies to Black Power ideologies. (JM)

Explains an experimental program designed to give the student a total look at himself and his society through literature, politics, and history; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Washington, D. C., November 28, 1969) and published in Kansas English" (February 1970). (Editor/SW)

An experimental 16-item 5-point Expository Writing Evaluator was administered to 1,311 college students in 79 writing courses to evaluate college-level courses in expository writing. The 16 expository writing items exhibited a narrow band of factor loadings ranging from .87 to .77, and the factor was labeled "Expository Writing Impact."…

Considers problems which clinical social work students experience in integrating and using traditional science concepts. Presents a teaching model which includes research concepts in clinical classes, illustrated by comparing basic concepts from scientific literature (both research methods and statistical tests) with similar concepts from social…

Student characteristics needed for professional literature reading were compared in first- and fourth-year students. Fourth-year students read more, valued reviews over original research, valued journals' reputations more, but were less willing to admit uncertainty. Medical education's emphasis on specific answers rather than analysis is faulted.…

Reports on an experiment designed to identify positive variables in the essay writing of Black college students and to use the variables in a new writing course. Suggests that instruction in concepts, skills, and relationships, when combined with consideration of students' diagnosed needs, can result in writing improvement. (AOS)