Reports data from questionnaires sent to college newspaper editors. (JT)

Reports research evaluating validity of the so-called class-size effect on student ratings of college courses and instructors. The data from 981 volunteered undergraduate courses includes mean scores on five dimensions of teaching performance and one overall rating of student learning. (JT)

Contending that the dominant issues confronting higher education are legal, economic, and technological, the author analyzes their specific forms of rationality and argues that although solutions will require better understanding of these forms, a broader perspective is needed that does not submerge the intellectual, cultural, and humanistic…

Contract clauses on tenure, promotion, salaries, faculty workload, and retrenchment are compared with the national stances of the American Federation of Teachers, American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association. Conclusion is that national organizational positions are not reliable predictors of individual…

Presents a case study of events leading to the collective bargaining representation election at Syracuse University in an effort to describe the complex situation facing a university administration which must assess unionization impact on the institution, including the possibility that opposition to it may support the collective bargaining effort.…

Incidents of five types of student involvement in the negotiation and administration of faculty or nonfaculty union contracts are examined: consultation-observation and end-run, coalition, tripartite, and collective bargaining. Conclusions are that no one appropriate type of student involvement has emerged; thus legislative structuring of student…

In a study focusing on the impact of faculty attributes on the college environment each of several sets of variables--measuring aggregate student characteristics, institutional structural characteristics, and aggregate faculty characteristics--proved to have high correlations with students' assessments of the degree of their institution's climate…

A study of college student civic attitudes identified three types of political orientation (quitters, conventionals, and escalators) associated with political partisanship, ideological preference, political trust, college major, and evaluations of government. Findings show that most students propose quite ordinary and conventional political…

Concludes that: (1) the biases inherent in the system of research support encourage analytical excesses; (2) major historical forces impinging on the postsecondary educational system will create strains; (3) previous research is of limited usefulness; and (4) large-scale sectoral models only provide the appearance of rationality to policy action.…

A system of elements for matching the supply and demand for workers from higher education is outlined. A portion of the system is exercised to obtain a provisional evaluation of supply and demand levels under assumptions of increased educational upgrading and industrial growth for the Southern region. (Editor/PG)

College administrators need to understand staff development as an integral part of the total process of organizational development. A 6-stage paradigm is suggested as one conceptual framework within which a college may identify and act upon its staff development needs. (Editor/PG)

Recent financial stringencies in colleges and universities are generating pressures for more efficient use of available faculty resources. Proposes the creation of formal organizational entities oriented toward public service. (Editor/PG)

Colleagues can make an important contribution to the evaluation of faculty performance. There are several aspects of teaching that colleagues would be able to judge. These are discussed in this paper along with other methods of assessing teaching. (Editor/PG)

A number of colleges throughout the country are now engaging in the practice of awarding "credit for life/work experience." Some of the institutional practices currently being followed are discussed along with a number of issues that any institution about to embark on this process should consider. (Editor/PG)

One-third of college student deaths are the result of suicide and the rate is rising. A survey of deans of students suggests considerable ignorance of this fact. An implication is that college student personnel, with the power to provide help for desperate students, must first recognize the need. (Editor/PG)