A behavioral study guide in the teaching of American literature at Henderson State University is presented that can help an instructor counter the trend of large class size and breadth of material covered. Focus is on developing analytic skills, clear thinking, and effective writing. (LBH)

A Leadership Institute for Enrichment (LIFE) is proposed, designed to develop leadership potential in persons 16 and 17 years old, before they assume adult responsibilities. Guidelines for such a program within the university are given and a sample conference schedule is included. (LBH)

Two questions are addressed: (1) What set of courses, in terms of theme and content, should a student be exposed to in order to achieve his general education? (2) By whom should general education courses be taught? Measures for maintaining the quality of the general education staff and its teaching effectiveness are discussed. (LBH)

An orientation course for incoming freshman is proposed that combines some creative writing and thinking exercises with a personalized psychology course. An appendix of writing exercises is included, and a team teaching approach is recommended. (LBH)

The scope of the doctor of arts degree is reviewed and compared with Ph.D. and Ed.D programs. The doctor of arts degree in physical education at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro is mentioned briefly. (LBH)

Brown's 1933 diagnostic test was used as a screening examination for 79 psychology students to determine their areas of weakness in statistical calculations, and to see whether the difficulties of a previous era have been changed by methods of teaching mathematics today. General similarities were found. (LBH)

From the literature on economic, scientific, technological, social, and political futurism an appropriate selection has been made for an undergraduate college course on the future of politics, which has twice been offered at the University of Delaware. Justification and features of the course are described. (LBH)

A projective instrument using aspects of the incomplete sentence test has been used in regular class work and prompted a comparative study of current student concerns and concerns of five to seven years ago. Use of such an instrument can help professors gain fresh understandings of each student generation. (LBH)

Proposed is a center, to be operated as an independent yet university-affiliated institution, to fulfill multipurpose functions, including offering an experimental credit course on self-realization and eventually offering community-oriented workshops in this area. Details of the course are outlined. (LBH)

A general rationale for the academic library is called for so that all the issues, from student use of the book collection to the status and promotion of the professional staff, may fall into a logical perspective. A 60-item bibliography is provided. (LBH)

Efforts at Richmond College, City University of New York, to make economics instruction more interesting, relevant, and attuned to present-day students and more attractive to those majoring in fields other than economics are reported. Focus is also on ways of restructuring economic education on the undergraduate level. (LBH)

An archeological field program developed at California State College in Pennsylvania has been restructured to appeal to students as an elective. Four objectives are included: primary research, scientific investigation of culture, portrayal of prehistoric and historic life styles of man, and recognition of cultural ecology. (LBH)

"Engineering Report Writing," a required course in the Civil Engineering Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, combines both pragmatic and innovative assignments that teach the techniques of technical writing. Course design and success are discussed. (LBH)

Some of the implications of the failure of graduate schools to help students find constructive solutions to societal problems are considered. This issue is seen as a crucial one since graduate students are not only teaching assistants, with a major share of the burden of undergraduate education, but become university professors and secondary…

The medieval European history of the Ph.D. degree and the Germanic legacy with which the degree is still supposedly encrusted are reviewed. (Author/LBH)