Considered the plight of women, a disadvantaged group along with other minority groups, who have suffered inequities in their educational and occupational pursuits. (RK)

Reviews the major developments in medical education this year. (PG)

Our colleges and universities are caught in the squeeze between suprainstitutional educational pressures in fields such as law, medicine, and engineering and student demands for curriculum control in the humanities and social sciences. To remain independent agencies, they must take the responsibility of self-evaluation. The author suggests a…

Greater professionalism among teachers is needed in order to upgrade the quality of instruction given in the public schools. (CK)

Describes program at Ohio State University. (RT)

The law and and nonlaw oriented students responded quite similarly to 13 of the 15 personality variables used in this study. Results suggest that a decision to enter prelaw or law school should be based on more than personality information. (Author)

In light of the spread of unionization to professional fields and rising client rejection of professional rights to unique expertise, the estimate may well be that professionalization is no longer the preferred route to job autonomy, high income, and social status for occupations with knowledge claims. (Author/MB)

When a major college or university directorship becomes available the experienced black librarian, with few expectations, remains the invisible librarian. (Author)

Presents an occupational classification system derived empirically and based on nine of many dimensions of professionalism. Results indicated the taxonomy represented expectations only to a moderate degree. A reasonable proportion of occupations had attributes closer to occupations in other clusters than to occupations in their own cluster.…