Describes a graduate course, entitled Mass Media and Adult Education, at the University of British Columbia, which is designed to help the adult educator use the mass media more effectively. (AK)

Describes program at Indiana University at South Bend. (RT)

Author believes both lawyers and sociologists have oversold importance of social science research and that it has not broadened legal education. (Editor/IR)

One section of the special issue, Directory of Assistantships and Fellowships for Graduate Study in English and the Teaching of English: 1971-72 and Directory of the Chairman Composition Programs in the Nation's Colleges and Universities," which is available from the National Council of Teachers of English, 508 South 6th Street, Champaign,…

The study has two purposes: (1) to provide a description of selected socio-economic variables characterizing the present doctoral population and (2) to provide a subjective evaluation of the library education programs by those people who are presumably the most knowledgeable people in the profession. (Author/NH)

The teacher of a graduate student must be an idealist, speculator of ideas and spiritual organizer to propel the student toward self-actualization and achievement. (IR)

Graduate students surveyed in this study believed that learning contracts placed more responsibility for learning on them, assisted them in synthesizing their needs with course requirements, and increased their competency as self-directed learners. (SK)

Describes a program that develops alternate funding sources for assistantships and fellowships by inviting nonprofit community organizations and other campus departments to use communication graduate students in their business operations. (PD)

Presents 18 tables of ratings and rankings, by Speech Communication Association members, of doctoral programs in speech communication: their overall quality as well as specific content areas and methodologies. (PD)

Based on his experience as a journal editor, the author reviews the criteria for publication and emphasizes the importance of teaching research methods and writing skills in the graduate communication program. (PD)