Changing patterns of professional education in colleges and universities--1964 and 1974. Survey in the North Atlantic Region.
This report concerns two surveys of undergraduate nutrition education in a selected group of degree-granting institutions within the North Atlantic Region of the United States. The purpose of the surveys was to determine the status of nutrition teaching in the early 1960s and the direction of change during the intervening ten-year period (1974). Reviews of the literature and college catalogues, personal interivews, letters of inquiry, and questionaires formed the basis for study. The last decade has witnessed change in organizational arrangement and in the number of programs offering major concentrations in foods, nutrition, and dietetics. Of these, twelve units in the Region studied are now engaged in coordinated programming. There has been a 125 per cent increase in foods and nutrition faculty. All but seventeen of the 275 faculty appear in programs approved by The American Dietetic Association. Basic questions about undergraduate education in foods and nutrition and the most desirable administrative structure for this specialization will continue through the 1970s. Solutions will undoubtedly be forthcoming after further experimentation and evaluative research.
D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004046:Dietetics / Q000193:education*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005178:Faculty; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities