3.   SURVEY OF DEANS PLACES DENTISTRP.Y THIRD, PHAlRMIACY FIFTH

     Both the College of Dentistry and the Coilege of Pharmacy are
ranked among the five most outstandcing professional schools in the
nation within their own fields in a survey of 1,180 deans of pro-
fessional schools.

     The survey, made by two Colurnb.ia University sociologists and
reported in the November issue of Change magazine, found the den-
tistry school tied for third among the nation's top five and the
pharmacy school tied for fifth.

     In "America's leading Professional Schools," the lead article
in the higher education journal, the sociologists, Rebecca Zames
Margulies and Peter HM. Blau, determdined "American professional
schools with the highest academic standings, based on their being
named most often as one of the best by the deans in that type of
professional school."

     In pharmacy, the University swas outranked by the University of
California (San Francisco), and by Ohio State, Purdue and the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin; the dentistry school was outranked only by
the University of North Carolina and the University of Michigan.

     The study encompassed all American professional schools that
are both accredited and university-affiliated, and included 17 types
of professional schools.

     "There are many factors that can influence the standing of a
professional school--," researchers 1Margulies and Blau wrote, "the
salaries offered, the qualifications and commitment of the faculty,
the ability of the students it att-racts, the academic environment
of the university, the flexibility of its structure and its respon-
siveness to changing conditions, and so on. To analyze which
factors actually influence a professional school's academic stand-
ing, and thus presumably its quality, we need a criterion of
academic standing. The criterion that has been found to be most
reliable is the judgement of experts in the field."

     Hence the choice of deans as respondents for their survey.

     "Since holders of masters and doctoral degrees have prolifer-
ated in the labor market !" say the authors, "where one has come
from rather than the degree itself, may represent an increasingly
powerful passport to entry into professions."



4.   IN-SERVICE GRADUATE EDUCATrON PROVIDED LOUISVILLE TEACHERS

     The College of Education is cooperating with the University of
Louisville in a program which provides in-service graduate education
to new teachers in the Louisville Public Schools.   Officials there
requested the program, designed to help new teachers cope with teach-
ing problems in the inner city schools, Dr. Edgar L. Sagan, assistant
dean of the College of Education, said.