Advocates a learning society as a new social ethic suitable to a world facing inevitable limits to material growth and as a response to prospective decline in demand for traditional services from teachers and scholars. Combines idealism and self-interest to provide a strong rhetorical position for advocates of a learning society. (JMF)

Calls for a redefinition of literacy and basics. Acknowledges the expanded classroom and the fact that new partnerships must be established with those who teach beyond the campuses. Educators must acknowledge the communications revolution and help students become more sophisticated as communicators. (JMF)

Assesses, through a survey, whether instruction in research methods has filtered down to the undergraduate level. Finds that the introductory communication research methods course on the undergraduate level appears to be growing rapidly, and that there is general agreement about purpose, content, problems, and plans for it. (MS)

Emphasizes the usefulness of integrating communicative and literary analyses to study the symbolic and pragmatic aspects of human relationships. Describes a health care course that teaches practitioner-patient communication through the application of communication theory to literary "case studies." Uses a scene from "The Elephant Man" to…

Reports on the results of a two-year study finding that college students' communication competence is linked to success in college, that high school communication experience is related to higher G.P.A., and that communication apprehension is related to perceptions of communication competence. Recommends replication employing a larger, more…

Examines the narrative accounts of the aesthetic performance experience as related by high communication apprehensives (HCA's) and low communication apprehensives (LCA's). Indicates that while both HCA's and LCA's commonly label themselves as apprehensive about performance, their characterizations of the performance experience differ significantly…

Noting that one's intellectual experiences presage one's later political commitments, this address explores the political commitments students make when they decide to major in communication studies. (PD)

Considers the legal meaning of the "right to receive" in light of the many cases where reading material has been censored by being removed from public school libraries. (NKA)

An attorney for the plaintiffs in the "Smith vs. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama" case recounts his impressions of the trial, focusing on the nature of the press coverage. (NKA)

The lawyer representing "Concerned Women for America" discusses the real issues in the Tennessee Textbook Case, as opposed to the apparent issues. (NKA)

Examines Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and concludes that it is one of his weakest works--of little use to the technical student interested in communication. (NKA)

Reports on a survey conducted by the Association of Schools in Journalism and Mass Communication's Committee on Journalism Education in the High School. Details the problems that the Journalism Education Association's Certification Commission plans to address concerning the availability of college journalism courses accessible to the high school…

Argues that journalists and other mass communication specialists must take a humanistic approach to communications; discusses factors involved in such an approach, including open-mindedness, altruism, direction, and perspective. (TJ)

Points out that it is not necessary and is sometimes undesirable for a school yearbook to have a theme. Provides guidelines for choosing and using a theme. (TJ)