For art to become a discipline of study in the schools, art programs should be structured in ways that benefit the majority of students, not just a talented few, and must contain substantive content sequenced across all grade levels in a written curriculum. The development of discipline-based art education started in 1965 with the Pennsylvania…

A new typology for faculty is proposed, based on their expressed priorities toward activities in which research universities engage. Responses of 617 faculty to a survey of 66 statements about university activities were factor analyzed, and scores on eight factors obtained were used in a cluster analysis that produced three clusters of faculty.…

This report covers the 1986-87 testing year in which eight colleges or schools at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin participated in the credit-by-examination program. Test results in 18 subject areas are reported. The summary section includes a discussion of the overall impact of credit-by-examination on eight participating schools or…

China colleges and universities that grant doctoral programs and the specialized fields offered are specified. For each of the 111 institutions, information is provided on the type of institution, location, alternative English versions of the school's name, and the doctoral degree programs offered. A brief narrative overview on the institutions…

Information on noncredit instructional activities at the State University of New York (SUNY) is presented, based on the biannual Survey of Noncredit Instructional Activities. These noncredit instructional activities require registration of participants and have a range of formats (e.g., courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, institutes). These…

The data presented on microcomputer usage in the Oklahoma public schools are based on a 37.5 percent response to a survey mailed to the 1,785 school building principals in the state. The results are reported separately for elementary, middle, and secondary schools, including numbers of microcomputers with brand name and model, peripheral devices,…

The use of the restructured Graduate Record Examination (GRE), students' entering grade point averages (GPAs), and other variables as predictors of success in graduate school at Texas A&M University (TAMU) was studied. Comparisons were also made to a similar study (Kunze, 1974). A sample of 564 entering graduate students who had taken the…

The employment of 1981 graduates at all degree levels in Pennsylvania's colleges and universities was surveyed, based on data for 47,996 graduates of 147 institutions, or 65.9 percent of all graduates. It was found that the 1981 full-time employment rate for all graduates, regardless of degree level, decreased from the 1980 value of 72.3 percent…

The guide to courseware for computer-assisted instruction and computer-managed instruction in bilingual education, English as a second language, and second language instruction contains entries from the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education's database and selected courseware for the related areas of special education, vocational…

A 1984 update of the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Program is presented. Graphs and narrative descriptions cover: number of students taking AP examinations by subject areas, 1974, 1979, 1983, 1984; trends in numbers of schools giving AP Examinations (exams) for the last 25 years (at 5-year intervals), including the number of exams,…

The nature and role of electronic journals have been widely discussed over the past few years, and there is an emerging consensus on the parameters of such journals and the space in which they operate. ESL, however, is an unusual area in being inter-­ and multi-­disciplinary, and in having a constituency which in some ways is not like that of…

This examination of the academic reward structure at American universities involves an analysis of the marketplace for academic labor and an empirical investigation of the reward structure in several of the different disciplines found in the modern university. Four dimensions of the reward structure are considered: the merit raise, the annual…

This six-part report provides data on faculty workload and salaries for Spring 1981 at the Metropolitan Community Colleges. Section I describes the purposes for and procedures used in this collection of information and defines the data elements covered by the report: full-time teaching credit and contact hours; full-time non-teaching credit and…

A comprehensive, field-disaggregated analysis of the academic labor market is presented using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for first-year graduate enrollment and higher degrees awarded in distinct fields. The fixed-coefficient model of Cartter (1975) is enlarged and disaggregated into a model of the supply of master's as…

The emphasis of sociology as an academic discipline tends to reflect social conditions at any given time. This has been especially true since the early 1960s. Sociology course offerings during the period from World War I through the 1960s were theoretical and empirical, with the social problems emphasis placed in areas of social work and related…