The University of Alabama in Birmingham's 1975 faculty handbook outlines the university's organization, governance, and purpose. Details of personnel policies regarding appointment, promotion, tenure, resignation, termination and grievance procedures are provided as is information of faculty roles and responsibilities, salaries, fringe benefits,…

Vanderbilt University's 1975 faculty handbook provides details of the university policy regarding appointment and tenure; faculty responsibility; faculty benefits; and facilities and services available to faculty. (JMF)

This faculty handbook, prepared for the 1974-75 session, is organized into four main sections: government of the university; policies and practices; student relations; and services and facilities. The information on government deals with administrative personnel, committees, and general organization. Policies and practices are outlined with regard…

The San Francisco unit of the California State University maintains a manual governing the university faculty. The 1973 edition of the faculty handbook covers the California State University and Colleges system; its organization; operating units; faculty personnel policies; professional responsibilities of the faculty; curriculum development;…

Procedures and regulations providing for the efficient operation of the University of Wisconsin - Stout are outlined in the 1975 edition of the faculty and academic staff handbook. Areas that are detailed include the administration of the university; faculty welfare including appointments, promotions, equal opportunity and affirmative action,…

This 1973 edition of the faculty handbook is divided into four main sections on history and goals, organization and administration, faculty and faculty policies, and faculty-student relations. The school's administrative structure is detailed, with descriptions given of its various schools, boards, and councils. Faculty policies are presented with…

The purpose of this six-part document is to assist cooperating teachers in training student teachers. Chapter one examines the goals of student teaching. Considerations for the cooperating teacher to keep in mind while working toward the development of competent teachers are presented. Chapter two discusses the cooperating teacher's…

In order to determine the most effective method of administering the cooperative education program at the College of the Mainland (COM) in Texas, the author surveyed community colleges supporting cooperative education under a Title IV grant, conducted interviews of COM faculty and staff, reviewed the literature, and reexamined COM's formal and…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. A chapter on organizing for personnel management discusses basic personnel functions, roles and responsibilities of administrators, and the need for a central statewide office of personnel affairs. A chapter on planning, policies, and…

The history of North Carolina from 1763 to 1789 and the issue of state rights are covered in this resource unit. This unit is applicable to a unit on the Bicentennial. The authors have chosen the central theme of state's rights to trace through the specific time period because it is a connecting thread between the opening and closing events of the…

The aim of career education is stated to be to avoid tracking lower class students into a time-serving education, one-way jobs, and narrow lives by preparing all for careers of their choice. To date, most career education programs have been concentrated in the suburbs. The National Urban Coalition wants career education to be made part of the…

This research study examined ways in which exposure to a children's television show (Misterogers' Neighborhood) would enhance the spontaneous imaginative play of children after several weeks. The project, which is detailed extensively elsewhere, involved a comparison of three groups of preschool children in a day care center who either: (1)…

A school administrator plays many roles in the course of his work, and his legal rights and responsibilities vary considerably depending on the particular role he is playing. Actions that might be considered legal or even desirable in one context might make an administrator liable to litigation in another context. A court's perception of the role…

This exploratory module is designed to familiarize the learner with the NEA (National Education Association) Code of Ethics. Teaching situations are presented enabling the learner to decide upon an action if he/she were the teacher in the situation. The learner's decision is then discussed in relation to the NEA Code. (MJM)

Partly in response to the findings of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, partly as an outgrowth of its earlier efforts to widen monority opportunities and improve race relations, the Ford Foundation in the late 1960s and early 1970s supported a series of activities designed to enhance the content and the sensitivity of the media…