The discipline of geography has become fragmented by narrow specialization and its boundaries blurred by overlap with neighboring disciplines. Suggestions for reorienting research include increased collaborative projects, more attention to environmental issues, and reemphasis on regional geography. (MSE)

Administrators at several public institutions have filed complaints with state labor relations boards, claiming that their faculty have managerial status and should be barred from collective bargaining, as in a 1980 Supreme Court case concerning the private Yeshiva University. (MSE)

National survey data on average salaries, perquisites, and fringe benefits provided to presidents of various college and university types are presented. Benefits include housing, relocation assistance, spouse assistance, car, travel and entertainment expenses, employment contracts, club or association memberships, and retirement assistance. (MSE)

Colleges have raised their expectations about the kind of contributions they can attract from individuals, paying particular attention to "ultimate gifts" that an individual can make only once in a lifetime. Recent successful fund-raising is also due in part to improved college fund-raising capabilities. (MSE)

Data on voluntary giving to private and public higher education institutions include information on the purposes of the support (operations, capital, endowment, and loan funds), sources (alumni, parents, other individuals, foundations, industry, and religious and other organizations), forms of giving, annual fund support, property gifts, and…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's new minimum academic standards for freshman athletes have resulted in 650 students accepted at the colleges but not able to practice or compete with the team as freshmen. The fact that most of these students are black has fueled criticism of the rule. (MSE)

To meet pressures from politicians and business executives for more job training, community colleges are finding they must make changes in their missions, financing, and relationships with government and industry, and focus on the needs of the locality rather than students seeking additional training. (MSE)

Data are presented on salaries for professors, associate and assistant professors, and instructors in four percentile groups, by institution type, and noting percentage increases in the last year for each rank and institution type in public, private, and church-related institutions. (MSE)

The Holmes Group, a committee of deans of education in several dozen large universities, have published a report urging major U.S. universities to provide leadership in reforming teacher education and the teaching profession. (MSE)

The text of the main sections of "Tomorrow's Teachers: A Report of the Holmes Group," is presented, which recommends extensive reform of teacher education and the teaching occupation in the United States. (MSE)

The median salaries of secondary-position administrators (i.e., assistant or program administrators) in 69 administrative functions are reported for all universities, all four-year colleges, community colleges, and all institutions. Data were derived from an annual national survey by the College and University Personnel Association. (MSE)

The role of the Holmes Group education deans in effecting the group's recommended reforms for teacher education is discussed along with issues raised by group members and colleagues about the financing and consequences of the proposed reforms. (MSE)

A gathering of student activists from the 1930s and 1960s to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the American Student Union and a retrospective of liberal and radical student activism are described, and the comments and attitudes of former activists are reported. (MSE)

Woman scholars at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians called for a new "multi-cultural approach" that would weave the lives of Hispanic, Black, Asian-American, and American Indian women into women's history and into United States history. (MLW)

Observations about today's senior professoriate were made at a national conference on personal and professional faculty renewal. Faculty development directors agreed that they must concentrate on ways to encourage older professors to lead more vigorous lives. Assigning professors as mentors to new faculty member is suggested. (MLW)