The Graduate Funding Resource System, a relatively inexpensive solution to the problem of identifying potential financial support for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty at the University of Washington is described. Plans are underway to offer the search service on a wider basis. (MLW)

Describes the Developing a Curriculum (DACUM) process which involved 10 panelists in a three-day seminar to define "developmental educators" and identify the competencies they need. Provides and lists eight uses for a chart which enumerates, in order of importance, eight competency areas and specific competencies within each area. (CAM)

Outlines the objectives of the National Science Foundation's Science Faculty Professional Development (SFPD), its history, and speculates about its future. (Author/SK)

Critical trends and actions affecting the present and future state of inservice education are discussed. (CJ)

Dean's Grant projects have indicated that faculty development and curriculum redesign are interdependent aspects of the change process. Extensive involvement of faculty members in the process of reconceptualizing and restructuring teacher education programs is important for motivating participation in professional development and curriculum…

Efforts in Sweden to increase contacts between the university and the rest of society and to build better links between studies and research and the reality of professional life and actual work situations are described. Higher Education Act, teacher development, Lund University experiment, and government experiment with researchers are discussed.…

The role of faculty colleagues in the evaluation of college teaching is not defined adequately. A distinction needs to be made between summative evaluation conducted for administrative decisions such as pay increases, promotion, and tenure, and formative evaluations designed to improve teaching. (MLW)

Describes the Faculty and Community Externship Program at Champlain College (VT), which places faculty on a short-term basis in external jobs related to their fields and, utilizes personnel from the community to take on the instructional duties of the interning faculty. Benefits, costs, and other administrative factors are considered. (JP)

Creative personnel management strategies are lessening the impact of decreased enrollments, budget tightening, and aging faculties on the quality of higher education in a statewide system. It is suggested that administrative policies and procedures be adjusted to minimize faculty employment problems in the 1980's. (Author/LC)

Using a developmental, learning-by-doing approach, teacher education must take deliberate steps to help teachers acquire the skills and understanding they need to foster the moral growth of students at all levels. (Author/MSE)

Discusses the need for staff development programs which prepare faculty both professionally and psychologically for the changing educational environment of the 1980s. Presents a taxonomy of staff development activities designed to update subject matter skills and to improve affective areas such as attitudes about self, work, and the institution.…

Outlines the duties of English department heads and what their areas of expertise ought to be. (Author/JM)

Effective staff development programs are the primary vehicle for improving schools and increasing student learning. Such programs would be school-based, be designed to meet the needs of both school and staff, use both internal and external resources, and be shaped by the needs of the participants at the school site. (JN)

In 1979, seminars were held at five locations in Florida to promote the interchange of ideas about instructional and curricular improvement among community college faculty. These seminars are described in terms of college credit offered, papers and projects required, and outcomes and benefits. (JP)

A meta-analytic methodology is applied to integrate findings from 22 comparisons of the effectiveness of student- rating feedback at the college level. Feedback had a modest but significant effect on improving instruction. The effects of student-rating feedback were accentuated when augmentation or consultation accompanied the ratings. (Author/MLW)