The job of a college or university planned-giving officer is to seek gifts that the college will receive after the donor's death. It requires substantial interpersonal skills, legal and financial knowledge, and understanding of donor attitudes. While dealing with potential donors requires great tact, the gifts are often substantial. (MSE)

The top 100 institutions in total federal obligations in fiscal 1984 are listed, and the total funding amounts and funding and ranking for research and development are included. These institutions account for 63 percent of total federal obligations to higher education institutions. (MSE)

Health-promotion programs provided for higher education staff are increasing. They draw on the expertise of physical education and athletic staff, counseling services, and medical centers to encourage employees to adopt lifetime regimens of healthy living. (MSE)

The trend toward including instruction in critical and logical thinking as a required element in the college curriculum, and the various approaches to teaching it, are discussed. (MSE)

Data on campus actions and the status of changes in response to four recent national education reform reports are discussed, along with administrators' views on other institutional changes. (MSE)

The persistence of dangerous initiation rituals in student organizations despite administrative and legislative efforts to end them is examined. (MSE)

The skills, equipment, and competition involved in intercollegiate riflery championships are described. Programs at National Collegiate Athletic Association-member colleges are cited. (MSE)

Increasingly, institutions are offering counseling on contraception, pregnancy, and other sex-related issues because of concern about a number of legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from student athlete pregnancy such as the safety, injury, privacy, and the college's responsibility to the student. (MSE)

Seventeen student volunteers form the Franklin Pierce College Fire Department. When the firefighters are on duty, they must carry electronic pagers at all times. They also participate in dormitory inspections and attend weekend sessions at a local firefighters' training school. (MLW)

Thomas A. Emmet, a special assistant to the president of Regis College and a leader of how-to seminars on handbooks, recommends organizing the material by dividing it into six chapters by topic. A model outline for the contents of a faculty handbook is presented. (MLW)

A guide to college guides for high school seniors is presented. The guide is divided into narrative guides and rankings, general catalogs, and specialized guides. (MLW)

Quality circles, in which a small group of employees meet frequently and voluntarily to study on-the-job problems and suggest solutions and improvements to the administration, which agrees to consider them, are a growing phenomenon, particularly in community colleges. (MSE)

The American College Health Association's Task Force on the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome statement on recommended school policy for attendance of AIDS-infected students, campus health education and testing, legal protection, information dissemination, victim privacy, and other issues is summarized. (MSE)

Provisions of federal legislation to extend federal support of student financial aid programs, educational facilities, migrant and disadvantaged programs, libraries, community development, continuing and cooperative education, graduate study, institutional aid, international studies, minority recruitment into science, teacher education, veterans…

A profile of college faculty based on a 1984 Carnegie Foundation survey outlines personal and professional characteristics, disciplinary backgrounds and interests, and attitudes on social and educational issues in tabular form. (MSE)