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The article presents a collection of abstracts of the research papers presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, which was held in Miami Beach, Florida in April, 1962. The papers listed here includes "The Campus Fringe--A Landscape Phenomenon," by John Alexander. This paper analyses the problems related to the expansion of universities including that of campus fringe, the area which surround a college or university. What are the problems of campus fringes, How have these problems been faced by different schools, are there any principles which research geographers might discover which would be useful to campus authorities facing decisions regarding expansion problems, all these points have been considered by the researcher.

Discusses strategies for reforming curriculum in two-year colleges. Basis of change in curriculum; Shortcomings of the present curriculum; Role of knowledge in the study of literature.

The article presents information on the 49th annual meeting of the American Economic Association, lists people that have been added to the American Economic Association since August 1, 1936, and reports about appointments and resignations in different U.S. universities. The American Economic Association's meeting that will take place from December 28-30, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois, will see economists presenting papers on varied economic topics. Some people who became members of the association include: W.C. Bagley, H.B. Baker, W.D. Barlow and E.C. Burris. Laurence J. Ackerman has joined as an instructor in insurance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. James P. Adams has been made the acting president of Brown University.

The tenth annual meeting of the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting was especially noteworthy because of the able papers given on the subject "Research Work in Universities." Inspired by these papers the present writer decided to ascertain approximately what graduate work in applied economics the American universities were doing. As there were no data available on this subject, a survey was started. This paper is the result of the survey conducted by the Association. The basic courses in commercial law are so fundamental that practically all graduate schools of business offer them. The commercial law courses are 8.4% of the total applied economic courses in non-urban schools and 6.2% in urban schools. This variation is due to the difference in the total number of courses offered in non-urban and urban schools as the number of commercial law courses offered is practically constant. The unusual number of commercial law courses offered at American University and Pennsylvania University is doubtless due to local conditions, the excellent standing of the graduate law school at the former and unusual complexities of the State law code at the latter. Business management ranks first or is tied for first among the applied economic groups in five out of the twenty-seven schools.

This paper attempts to explain variation in the formalization of administrative practices current in the teaching departments of a large midwestern university. Variation was noted in the degree of formalization in the following practices: hiring procedures, evaluation of performers, and handling of unsatisfactory faculty members. This variation was analyzed to determine its relationship to: department size, frequency of decision making, department prestige, supply-demand ratio, and humanistic orientation. Frequency of decision making emerged as the most significant of these. Humanistic orientation was found to be associated with the subject matter taught by the department faculty and with degree of visibility of the training given by the department. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an update on the Academy of Management and news related to business education in the U.S. as of September 1965. The Academy of Management Silver Anniversary Program will meet at the Warwick Hotel in New York City on December 27 to 29, 1965. The University of Southern California is planning a new organizational scheme for the Business School. Thomas H. Patten Jr. has been appointed Professor of Management at the University of Detroit.

This paper reports on the nature of the health research in progress at Ohio State University. The concern of the paper is with mental health. It discusses the reasons for undertaking health research, the objectives of such research, and the methods used. Studies completed and in process are likewise reported.

This paper reports on the nature of the health research in progress at Michigan State University. The concern of the paper is with physical health. It discusses the reasons for undertaking health research, the objectives of such research, and the methods used. Studies completed and in process are likewise reported.

This paper reports on the nature of the health research in progress at the University of Missouri. The concern of the paper is with physical health. It discusses the reasons for undertaking health research, the objectives of such research, and the methods used. Studies completed and in process are likewise reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the impact of a professional social workers' strike on graduate students at the School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the proceedings of the twelfth annual convention of the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, held at Washington D.C., between December 28 and 29, 1927. After some introductory remarks by the organizers, papers were read by W. W. Nissley of the American Institute of Accountants, John R. Wildman of the company Haskins and Sells, David Himmelblau of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, William A. Paton of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and J. L. Dohr of Greene and Hurd and of Columbia University, New York, New York. The second program meeting was given over to a discussion of various features of the federal income tax law. Johns Hopkins University's, Baltimore, Maryland, professor presided at the session and opened it with a brief statement introducing the speakers of the afternoon, all of whom were representatives of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The third program session consisted of a joint meeting with the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. The general topic for discussion was "The Place of Accounting in Commerce Curriculum."

The purpose of the present paper is to ascertain just what graduate courses in accounting are offered by the universities listed by the collegiate department of the United States Bureau of Education as giving graduate work in applied economics. In order to simplify the figures, no distinction is made between a term course and a semester course. Likewise, no distinction is made between courses given only to graduates and those given to both graduate and undergraduates; strictly undergraduate courses are ignored. Data presented in the article shows that the graduate courses in accounting are largely concentrated in the basic subjects. While twenty-one different accounting studies are given, 71.7 per cent of the courses are given in the subjects that a student already familiar with the elementary principles of accounting must pursue. In order to become a professional accountant; and although prospective Certified Public Accountants (C.P.A.) candidates form only a small portion of the total number of accounting students, it still is advisable to offer adequate preparation for the C.P.A. examinations. The relatively weak showing of the subjects not absolutely needed in the professional accounting curriculum is due to the fact that accounting must be studied in logical sequence.

University education for business is of recent origin. Forty years ago only one university in the U.S. had a school whose major purpose was to aid in equipping students for careers in the business world. Since then the growth in the number of these schools of university grade has been rapid. Today, thousands of students are attending courses which are classified as business courses in the colleges of commerce, finance and accounts and in the colleges of liberal arts. Accountancy as a business study has moved rapidly toward the front ranks of the business subjects during this period. The purpose of this paper is to endeavor to shed some light on the contents of accounting courses and on the problems of teaching accounting during the years when the subject was first offered in institutions of higher learning. The period to be covered will be limited to the two decades preceding 1903. This period represents about one-third of the time during which accounting has been taught in these institutions. To shorten the period would result in confining the paper to courses as taught in one or two institutions. During the early years of the new century the courses in accounting were beginning to assume more definite form and content and to increase in number, due partly to the growth of the CPA movement and partly to the growing consciousness of the increasing importance of business education and of accounting in particular.

The article reports on marketing research studies being conducted in colleges and universities in the U.S. The author includes information about a research study, being printed at the University of Pennsylvania, which focuses on the pharmaceutical industry. A study focusing on accounts receivable for smaller stores, being prepared at the University of Chattanooga, is discussed. A study named "Price and Returns for Nova Scotia Apples," being conducted at Cornell University, is also mentioned.

This article presents a notice concerning the 1957 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association to be held at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C. on August 27-29. Joint sessions will be held with the American Anthropological Association, the Rural Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The various sections and respective chairmen for them are Talcott Parsons of Harvard University for Sociological Theory, Paul L. Lazarsfeld of Columbia University for Methodology, Conrad M. Arensberg of Columbia University for Industrial Sociology, S.M. Lipset of University of California, Berkeley for Political Sociology and Samuel A. Stouffer of Harvard University for Consumer Behavior. Each section chairman will present an analytic overview of what he takes to be the most significant problems in the field under examination. Members of the society have been directed to submit their papers to the respective chairmen of the sections and to the program committee alternatively. These papers will complement the usual papers presenting reports on researches.

The objective test in accounting is a test designed to cover a large amount of material, to have a large number of questions requiring very brief answers, the answer to each unit being the same for every student who answers the questions correctly. This kind of test has in recent years been referred to as the New Type Ten but since its use has been so commonly adapted it seems best to the writer to refer to it, not as a new type test, but as an objective test. In Indiana University the increased enrollment in accounting, without a corresponding budget increase, has necessitated some means of measuring student achievement with a minimum of clerical effort. The staff has regularly felt that the instructor's real service to the student comes from adequate preparation and presentation of materials rather than in the type of drudgery that accompanies long hours in marking papers. The institution requires that teachers give each student a letter grade each semester and the objective test furnishes the measuring device for arriving at the correct grade.

In this article the author proposes a system for teaching elementary accounting. Because it might be contended that this paper is attempting to make a virtue out of necessity or rationalizing that which had to be, according to the author, the system of teaching accounting at Miami University, Ohio was inaugurated before restrictive legislative appropriations might have forced the same system on accountants. Furthermore, because of the latter factor, it may be that what accountants are doing is not now as unique as it might have been some years before. According to the author, laboring under a delusion in believing there is or ever was anything unique in methods. All students take the same course regardless of whether they are accounting majors, business students interested in other majors, or students in other divisions of the University taking the course for various reasons.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual business meeting of the Ohio valley sociological society. Don Olmstead reported for the Publications Committee. He reported on the search for a new editor, the maintenance of the publication, Sociological Focus at the University of Akron, and the exploration of future publication possibilities between the OVSS and other societies. Whereas the innovative and sematic scheme of the program produced interesting and provocative papers and discussions. Be it resolved that Chairman Marvin Olson and Program Committee members Elizabeth Mullins, and John Scanzoni be recognized for their efforts and that their universities be so informed. Whereas, the three year term of office for the following officers of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society has expired, be it resolved that the new officers and membership recognize the extraordinary efforts and contributions made by: Shailer Thomas, Secretary; Charles Westie, Treasurer; John Lindquist Editor of Sociological Focus.

The article reports the author's opinions regarding the debut of marketing as an area of study in colleges and universities in the U.S. The author focuses on responding to claims that professor E. D. Jones was the first professor to teach marketing at an American University. It is suggested that professor G. M. Fisk was also a pioneer of business education when he began to teach marketing courses at the University of Illinois. The author goes on to discuss other marketing professors, including A. C. Miller and Wesley C. Mitchell. Marketing literature used by business teachers is also discussed.

The article presents news briefs related to industrial relations research as of October 1, 1962. Several major developments have taken place in the research and publication program of the University of California Institute of Industrial Relations, including the launch of the academic journal "Industrial Relations." The Management Sciences Research, an affiliate of the institute, has now become a Center for Research in Management Sciences. The field work for a comparative study of local politics and power structure in two New York towns has been completed by Robert Presthus and L. Vaughn Blankenship of the Cornell University Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. Several research projects are being undertaken by members of the faculty of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A series of economic indicators for New Jersey is being developed by the Bureau of Economic Research at Rutgers.

The article presents news briefs on labor unions in the U.S. as of January 1953. The Industrial Relations Section of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions at Princeton University celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Cornell University New York State School of Industrial Relations held several conferences from June to November 1952. The Research Council for Economic Security have appointed several technical and administrative experts to be its advisors. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues called for papers to enter its Industrial Relations Award for the year.

Efforts at educational reform between 1890 and 1930 in New York were more successful in medicine than in law. This paper considers influences favoring medical reform: a rapid introduction of new knowledge and techniques; a national, even international competition for medical esteem; a visible need for expensive instructional facilities; a solid connection of schools of medicine with universities; a strong professional association; and several other forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comments on the impact of colleges and universities on local rental housing markets in the U.S. The study consists of the development and testing of a model of rental housing service demand. In this model, demand is assumed to vary positively with income, the percentage of total population which is enrolled in a college or university, and population density. A negative relationship is assumed between demand and the percentage of total employment which is in manufacturing. The first relationship defines a positive income elasticity of demand for rental housing services. The manufacturing variable is assumed to measure the effects of such external diseconomies of spatially concentrated industry as air pollution, ugliness, and noise. The population density variable is included to reflect the influence of differing numbers of rental housing service buyers in a given market area. It is believed that the college and university variable expresses the impact of this unmeasured component of student income which tends to increase student demand relative to non-student demand. Unmeasured student income consists of transfers from outside the local housing market area and relatively high permanent income.

The article presents information on the race relations contests for college students in the U.S. The Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation is offering three cash prizes, aggregating one hundred seventy-five dollars, for the three best orations or essays on some phase of race relations, submitted by students of the white colleges of the thirteen Southern States, including Kentucky and Oklahoma, If prize winning papers shall have been delivered as orations on some public college occasion or published in college periodicals, during present school year, the prizes will be respectively one hundred dollars, fifty dollars and twenty-five dollars.

In this paper, we devise a cost-allocation matrix and employ it to estimate the average input (net of capital) cost to the University of South Carolina of producing various degrees. The end product of our technique permits a statement of the comparative input costs of producing degrees from each of the several product (degree-granting) divisions within the university. These cost estimates should be useful to administrators concerned with establishing tuition rates. Although our data are for a particular university, factor inputs used by this university for transmitting knowledge are taken from regional, national and international markets. Curricula for similar degrees in different universities are similar in composition. Hence, our study should have general applicability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on different teaching methods to improve the teaching of economics courses in colleges and higher education. Although this paper draws on student questionnaires and letters from experienced teachers, it relies chiefly on true-false tests given to 32,000 students at eighty colleges since 1954. The comparisons today are confined to the 103 men's and 37 women's classes, in forty-four colleges, which took them both before and after the course. The mean grade of the 140 advanced from 54.1 to 62.3 percent, or from about twenty-seven to thirty-one out of fifty. This is not self-evidently poor, without standards to show what improvement ought to be, or that these particular questions reflect what the course should teach, but it is certainly not impressive. Of the forty-four colleges, two from the "Ivy League," though with only one class each, recorded an average gain of 31 percent of the possible improvement between their beginning scores and 100; five liberal arts colleges whose names are well known, with eight classes, a 21 percent gain; fourteen state universities, seventy-three classes, 18 percent; thirteen large private universities, twenty-nine classes, 16 percent; and ten colleges and small universities known mostly in their own states, twenty-eight classes, 13 percent. Averages in the South were in most cases lower than those elsewhere.

This paper provides a test of the usefulness of a formal organizational model in studying the structure of universities. Nondenominational universities in the United States were researched by sending mail questionnaires to administrators and faculty members. The findings reported here concern goals, their relation to the power structure, and to other characteristics of universities. There is consensus on the pan of administration and faculty on what the goals are and on what they should be. According to both faculty and administration, the highest goal is and should be protecting the faculty's right to academic freedom. Most of the top goals are support goals rather than output goals, and only one of them involves students. In contrast, three of the four bottom goals refer to students. Protecting academic freedom is more emphasized as a goal in private than in state universities. In the former, the goals revolve around student-expressive matters, but the latter are snore likely to emphasize preparing students for useful careers, assisting citizens through extension, and doing applied research. Student expressive goats are also related positively to the prestige of the institution, whereas emphasis on student instrumental goals and under-graduate instruction are related negatively to prestige. The biggest difference in goal structures arises where legislatures and state governments are perceived as having greater power, relative to administrators and faculty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information related to academic achievements, academic appointments and several other research activities related to rural sociology in universities in the U.S. The journal "Rural sociology" has shared in the tripling of the number of majors in the graduate faculty of sociology as compared with he last semester. The enrollment in the major course in rural sociology in the first semester is 120. Dr. Alan Westerman has been added to the staff as instructor and Mr. Alan Hugg, B.A., University of Manitoba, Master of Education, Springfield, as graduate assistant. Columbia University has organized a university-wide seminar on rural life in this year considering the family farm. The staff includes an economist, an anthropologist, a historian, a psychologist, two rural sociologists, a rural educationist, and a librarian. Professor W.A. Anderson of Cornell University, has participated in the 1946 session of the American Institute of Cooperation at Purdue University, held between August 26 and 30 presenting a paper entitled "The Need for Cooperative Education."

Traditionally, a university will formulate its policies for student housing on a short-run basis, adjusting its plans for residence hall and other on-campus housing from time to time to meet expected crises in the next few years ahead. In addition, university policy making in this field has tended to center around on-campus housing, neglecting the often substantial role played-or capable of being played-by the private market. In this paper, the author proposes that a university can usefully formulate a long range policy for student housing by (1) including in its definition of the housing system all the facilities that are used for housing students, whether on or off-campus and (2) examining the trade-offs available through the use of a formal analytical model. It is proposed that a linear program provides a useful framework for examining the issues in such an expanded housing system, and an application of this proposed approach is illustrated for a campus of the University of California. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on several courses on public relations offered by various universities in the U.S. In the present paper, it is proposed to summarize course offerings in this field in the thirty-four universities with 5,000 and more students, in the thirty four colleges and universities which are members of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism, and in seven other schools now offering "public relations" courses. Then, an effort is made to bring together what looks like the "best thinking" of teachers and practitioners on the construction of general and special courses in public relations and on the development of curricular recommendations for those looking forward to becoming public relations specialists. Even though the courses in "public relations" still frequently stress publicity and "opinion management" techniques to the exclusion of other aspects of a well-rounded perspective, the growing body of literature on public opinion, mass communication, and social action brings more and more emphasis to bear upon the subject as an applied social science course.

The article presents information related to students preparing for the Certified Professional Accountants examination in the U.S. It has been viewed that the ideal accounting problem should be free from vague, obscure, and ambiguous statement; it should not be too lengthy; and it should permit of solution within the allotted time. Problems prepared by university instructors usually meet these requirements and are, therefore, excellent teaching material for the preparation of students for the accounting profession. But, because of their very virtues such problems are often not suitable as preparatory material for the professional examination; for, on such examinations, the candidate is usually confronted with problems which contain vague and contradictory statements, or mathematical errors, or are so lengthy as to be impossible of solution within the specified time. In a course In accounting problems planned to meet the needs of students, equal emphasis should be placed upon the application of accounting principles as applied to various businesses and upon the art of solving problems. It is not the function of a university to prepare its students for examinations into such professions as law, accounting, or medicine. The aim of the collegiate school of business is usually to prepare its students for business or for some special field of business.

The article presents information that the program of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Association of American Geographers will be held on April 11-15, 1954 at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn-Sherwood Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Members having professional material to exhibit would have to communicate with university of California. The program committee appointed by the Council is instructed by it to arrange a program of invited papers suitable for the fiftieth anniversary meetings.

The demand for more and greater variety in maps has brought about an expansion of established map-making facilities and the creation of new agencies, both private and government. This expanding activity has posed several problems, mass production techniques had to be improved, new inks, papers, and other materials were needed, and additional personnel had to be trained. In typical American fashion the new techniques, material, and the expanded facilities to house them were solved with relative ease, but, perhaps also typically American has been our lag in changing cartographic training to meet the needs of the present day. The objective of this article is the presentation of a cartographic training curriculum at the college level, which meets the needs of present day map-making.

The article presents newsbriefs related to the field of bioscience in the U.S. Richard D. Vanderwarker has been appointed as the chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The Brain Research Foundation Inc. in Chicago has affiliated with the University of Chicago in a joint program for research on brain and nervous system. The Third Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment will be held from October 14-16, 1964 at the University of Michigan.

The article focuses on the study of Internal Revenue Services in accounting courses. In teaching accounting courses, field trips are not often used. Probably only for special situations and for relatively small groups could they be effective. In its graduate course in income tax at the University of Illinois, "Income Tax Development," one of the university's objectives is to give students some comprehension of current developments, including tax practice and relationships between practitioners and the Internal Revenue Service. In studying the Internal Revenue Service the university has some formal reading assignments. Whenever schedules will permit the university will try to culminate this with an all-day visit to a District Office of the lnternal Revenue Service. It has been extremely interesting to observe reactions of students to this visit. It is clear that the purpose of the paper is not simply to discuss the image of the Internal Revenue Service. This is an interesting subject in itself, but is intended as an illustration of the image of almost any government servant. The author feels that better understanding on the part of the enlightened public is needed, and will lead to better service and better rewards for service.

The title of this paper, College Education As a Requirement for Public Accountants in New York State, is rather ambiguous. It suggests that all public accountants practicing in New York must meet certain scholastic requirements. Of course, this is not true. There is no law in New York State restricting the practice of public accounting to certified public accountants (CPA). The college education requirement mentioned in the title refers to the New York CPA law which became effective from January 1, 1938. This law specifies that candidates for the examination leading to certification must be graduates of colleges or schools of accountancy registered by the State Education Department as maintaining satisfactory standards. To meet satisfactory standards, a school must offer a four-year course, or its equivalent, in cultural and business subjects including 24 hours of accounting, 8 hours each of business law and finance, and 6 hours of economics. This law, which for the first time set minimum scholastic requirements at college level, did not become effective until January 1, 1938.

A striking development has taken place in recent years in the growth and expansion of commercial departments in small liberal-arts colleges. As a result of this development many of these colleges have incorporated business courses. It is the purpose of the paper to examine the nature of this development and to indicate the place of accounting courses in the expansion of business curriculum. Accounting in a liberal-arts curriculum has had considerable discussion in recent years by men interested primarily in the teaching of accounting. It will be of interest to notice the relationship between the stated purposes of business departments in liberal-arts college and aims and purposes of the liberal-arts college itself. It is being recognized in a greater degree that courses in accounting and other business subjects meet the generally accepted purposes of a liberal-arts curriculum and in meeting the general requirements of the liberal-arts college by examining offerings of small liberal-arts colleges and noting the relative emphasis placed upon accounting courses in the curriculum.

At the University of Pennsylvania, an accounting plan has been developed which fundamentally arrives at a deficit or surplus for each department, which in turn is closed into the general deficit account. One obtains figures upon the instructional salaries, other salaries and wages, and departmental current expense and distribute the general overhead of the various departments upon various bases, so that the cost system, which appears on the surface to be quite an elaborate set-up is in reality very simple. It is realized that budgeted expenses do not necessarily have any relation to the income or receipts of any school or department due to the inter-relationship of the several faculties of instruction. It may be also noted that the budgets of the various departments do not include a charge for the building expense, general expense, or for instruction furnished by other school or departments. Separate budgets are of course prepared under budget administrators for building expense, and the various items finally closed into general university expenses. Later in this paper is a discussion of the method of charging the instructional expenses to the various schools and departments.

This article presents updates on meetings and events related to family living and marriage at universities and associations in the U.S. as of May 1946. At the two sessions of the American Sociological Society, papers presented were devoted to the topic of family. The first, on the Family and the War, chairman, Ray E. Baber, discussed papers by Mildred Fairchild on Compilation of Data Regarding American Women at Work and at Home in World War II, by Leonard Bloom on Familial Adjustments of Japanese-Americans to Relocation, and by John F. Cuber on A Study of the Adjustmental Problems of Returning Service Men and Their Spouses. The Association for Childhood Education, on the other hand, held a restricted 1946 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 1946, limited to approximately eight hundred people. In addition, the Child Study Association of America held its Annual Conference on March 4, 1946.

A conference paper is presented about the history of American college textbooks and teaching in logic, ethics, psychology, and similar subjects. It cites Josiah Quincy, who wrote "The History of Harvard University." It discusses the transition from a logical period in collegiate history to an emotional one. The impact on academia of minister George Whitefield is also discussed.

The article presents information related to various colleges and universities of the United States. Professor Joseph Doran has joined the department of sociology as Assistant Professor of Sociology in Canisius College. He will teach courses in crime and delinquency. A symposium was held on April 22, 1964 in Fairfield University on the topic, "Conceptual Definition in the Behavioral Sciences." Professor Gordon DiRenzo, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology and organizer of the Symposium, presented the initial paper on "The Problem of Conceptual Definition in the Behavioral Sciences." Gordon DiRenzo has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to participate in an Institute for the study of Anthropology which will be conducted at the University of Colorado from June through August. Michael E.J. Rowan, foremerly of Pennsylvania State University, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology in St. John's University, New York.

The article discusses questions regarding marketing examinations collected at the request of the Committee on the Teaching of Marketing. The author collected question papers used in the final examinations in an initial marketing course from twenty different colleges and universities. The Committee found the questions from different institutions to range too widely to create a standard set of questions that would be universally beneficial. Some of the differences in the questions included the objectives of the courses offered, the placing of the course in the business curriculum, and the perspective of each teacher and what they feel is important. The author believes further study should be used to standardize an evaluation of teachers and courses.