A tongue-in-cheek list of faculty behaviors for improving student evaluations suggests that faculty manipulation of student comments is both common and a threat to quality social work education. Reduced emphasis on student ratings is strongly advocated. (Author/MSE)

Social work faculty tend to perform activities that reflect a wide range of quality and value to the recipient. Graduate social work deans were surveyed, and a rank ordering of commonly reported community service activities was constructed. (Author/MH)

A total of 94 graduate deans were surveyed (83 percent response rate) to ascertain the importance of various factors in their quality assessment of a journal article or book publication. Journal reputation and external opinions of the articles were judged to be important quality factors. (Author/MH)

Replication of earlier research on the importance placed on social work faculty activities, especially community service work, by deans and program directors is reported. Similarities to and changes since the earlier research are discussed in relation to current trends and issues in higher education. (Author/MSE)