News Notes and Announcements.

The article presents information on various activities of U.S. colleges and universities. It also reveals information on short courses and workshops that are scheduled for months ahead. The new chairman of the Department of Sociology of Berea College is Roscoe Griffin. Wilford Smith has accepted a fellowship next year at the University of Washington where he will do work toward the doctorate. A.R. Mangus will be Visiting Professor of Sociology at New Mexico Highlands University at Las Vegas during the summer of 1950. He will teach courses in rural sociology, social psychology, and marriage and the family. Emory University Town and Country School for Rural Ministers will be held again this year in July. Using workshop methods of group planning, discussion, and the planning of individual study programs, the summer workshop will open on the college campus in Plainfield, Vermont, on July 3, 1950 and will close August 11, 1950. Ohio rural ministers will receive scholarships covering all expenses for the minister's short course at Oberlin College, July 10-28, 1950. The Editors of Rural Sociology have made a contract with University Microfilms of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to have the journal microfilmed beginning with no. 1 vol. 15.