Court rulings and legislation are cited in a discussion of institutionalized mentally retarded persons' rights to privacy. The authors emphasize the need to restructure job responsibilities and/or descriptions to ensure appropriate resident-staff relations for dressing, bathing, toileting, and other private activities. (CL)

Direct-care and professional staff serving profoundly and multiply disabed persons in small community settings or in a large specialty hospital generally expressed positive attitudes regarding jobs and resident care. Staff members who worked with the most disabled residents did not differ from employees serving profoundly but relatively less…

The article describes for classroom teachers the skills of school psychologists in the areas of assessment, counseling, and consultation, with special attention provided to the needs of hearing impaired children. (CL)

Among 60 day care centers (DCC) surveyed, characteristics of centers with high rates of disease among children included (1) the presence of young, nonbowel trained children, (2) staff who both regularly diapered infants and prepared food, (3) for-profit management, and (4) DCC whose only guidelines were provided by the state. (KH)

Surveyed 312 members of the Southern Association for College Student Affairs to determine characteristics of compensation and responsibilities and characteristics of members. Data showed over half the respondents felt state government support was inadequate to encourage them to stay in higher education. (JAC)

It is recommended that educational planning and inservice teacher education be integrated to achieve the most effective modifications of staff attitudes. (GW)

An evaluation approach to study the success of management development programs is presented. The evaluation is based on an analysis of the relationship between program success, program staffing, and four participant characteristics which might interact with perceptions of course favorability; age, education, years with the organization, and reason…

Unitization--placement of institutionalized mentally retarded persons from a common geographical area into a series of living arrangements in the same residential area--is discussed in terms of its implications and meaning for the social worker and the resident. (Author/IM)

Discusses how a staff meeting may be effective in aiding instructors with direction giving. (GB)

The general purpose of the faculty club should be to promote unity and effectiveness among the teaching, administrative and professional forces of the university and to provide opportunities for informal exchange of academic problems. (Author)

A principal looks at the complexities of budgeting and administering successful instructional television departments in high schools. (HB)

A principal of an alternative school lists and elaborates on imperatives for developing an alternative school program. (Editor)

Article gives nine guidelines plus a model of content organization for staff development. (GB)