The use of a faculty flow model is expanded to include simulation of the indirect effects on a university's faculty of institutional policies that directly affect enrollments. Based on data from the University of Minnesota, the results have implications for faculty size and personnel policy. (Editor/LBH)

A trial instrument was constructed and administered to the faculty of a private university to determine: (1) the relative importance of possible incentives to faculty, and (2) the perceived relationship between specific teaching and research behaviors and the probability of receiving various incentives. (Editor/LBH)

Examination was made of whether students' orientations regarding educational "purpose and process" and "relative fit" with faculty orientations were associated with students' satisfaction with their academic program. The findings suggested that dissatisfied students had educational orientation profiles noticeably divergent from peers moderately…

An epistemological analysis of bibliographic literature networks is set forth as a useful aid in both teaching and research. A structural-functional treatment of library reference materials is presented and the integration of classroom instruction and library research is suggested. (Editor/LBH)

Institutional and individual determinants of adult participation in higher education are examined. Using linear regression, the authors predicted the 1970 degree-credit college enrollment of a sample of 57,689 married men and women aged 25 or older living in metropolitan areas. (Editor/LBH)

A tool based on Bloom and Krathwohl's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives," the Examination Profile, is presented for use in planning and evaluative information. Data using the Examination Profile and evaluating the divisional examination system at Hampshire College are provided. (Editor/LBH)

It is argued that attention to effectiveness criteria must be paid early in the development of nontraditional programs to assist in planning and to anticipate questions about worth and value. The criteria outlined are also applicable to traditional postsecondary institutions and programs. (Editor/LBH)

Examines the role of the college student as an active decision-maker in instruction. Eight variables (pacing, reinforcers, contingencies, sequencing, mode, feedback, content and objectives, and discriminative control) are described and discussed in the context of student choice, and issues which student choice highlights are examined. (Editor/JT)

The major obstacles preventing wider use of self-instruction are identified: problems of managing the individual learner in institutions of higher education and of promoting the development of self-instructional materials by the faculty. A recommended centralized approach is described. (Editor/JT)

Based on a 2-year-old faculty development program at an urban university, a model is derived that describes faculty development as an evolving process, beginning with low mutual knowledge and trust and an "expert" consulting role, developing into greater mutual knowledge and trust and a more "collaborative" consulting role. (Editor/JT)

A conceptual framework containing three domains for an administrative perspective on faculty evaluation is presented. The first domain deals with faculty need satisfaction; the second centers on the instructors' work environment; and the third relates to the appropriateness of evaluation instruments. (Editor)

Final exam performances of seven sections of introductory calculus were compared with student ratings of the instructors, half made during the last week of classes, half during the subsequent term. Ratings made at the two different times were not reliably different and both sets correlated positively with final exam performance. (Editor/JT)

Analysis of a survey of teaching faculty conducted by the American Council of Education (ACE) revealed that most college and university environments are relatively nonsupportive of women faculty and students and that men faculty subscribe to the institution's research image for self esteem while women utilize other value systems to define success.…

Reports a survey of every unionized college and university in the nation on the impact of faculty collective bargaining on traditional processes of academic governance, particularly faculty senates. One of several conclusions: the degree of threat that unions constitute depends on past history of the senate, legal framework, administrator role,…

A study of responses to affirmative action at a large university revealed that using estimates of the minorities available at prestige schools led to smaller departmental hiring goals, and that once such goals were met the subsequent pursuit of minorities was abandoned. Recommendations are derived from the findings. (JT)