Data suggest that institutional socialization effects, specific to the professions of medicine, law and business, are not likely to result from participation in college sports. (GW)

Author believes that there is a significant amount of overlap between the areas of school library media programs and audio-visual technology, and the resultant emergence of the educational media specialist, is resulting in continued movement of these fields toward each other. (Author/HB)

Professional narrowness and philosophical inexactness only will encourage the arthritic and mortification process that has beset education. (Author)

Discusses a report commissioned for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare entitled National Policy and Higher Education.'' Examines, in particular, that portion of the report dealing with the credentials monopolies'' of organized professions which control the entry of personnel into their ranks. (JR)

The professionalization" of teaching might begin a history of lawsuits against teachers for malpractice (and subsequent emotional damage to children.) (EA)

The job of directing the instructional program should be returned to the principal and a specially trained assistant should be employed to help administer and manage the school. (Author/AF)

The article considers the nature of a profession, the professionalization of special and regular teachers, formal approaches to professional standards, and a five-level restructuring of the roles of regular and special education teachers. (DB)

The importance of academic credentials is discussed in relation to the changing occupational composition of high-income earners, family status, and the prestige of particular degrees such as the MBA and JD. (JN)

Women's lower achievement level in professions is explained by the Multiple Role Negotiation perspective as resulting from difficulty in balancing the "active," demanding roles of wife/mother and a high-level professional role. The findings reveal that neither males nor females perceive the female familial role as the "more active." (Author)

Responses to a survey of university career center professionals (1,000 of 1,171) showed that orientation has shifted from placement to planning/networking; self-help/self-direction were emphasized; 91% are serving a broader clientele than students; career centers have multifaceted, complex missions that need to be understood by administrators; and…

A professional development course helps business majors develop a commitment to their profession. Such activities as cooperative learning groups, field experiences, speakers, and journal writing acquaint students with the concepts of a profession. (SK)

Professional licensure of human resource development practitioners is problematic for several reasons: lack of regulatory control, diversity of the field, divisiveness of licensure, inadequate evaluation procedures, and lack of need. A less formal approach emphasizing individual freedom, democratic peer review, and a free market is more…