The following report was prepared by the National Council on Professional Education for Journalism after more than a year's study of nationwide scope of the work in journalism instruction in colleges and universities. The organizations represented on the Council include the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the National Editorial Association, the Inland Daily Press Association, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism. Officers of the Council are: J. D. Barnum, publisher, Syracuse Post-Standard, chairman; Walter Allen, publisher, Brookline, Mass., Chronicle, vice-chairman, and Dean Kenneth E. Olson, Northwestern University, secretary-treasurer. Other Council members who approved the report are: Fred Pownall, Iowa City Iowan; Casper S. Yost, St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Herbert Davidson, Daytona Beach News-Journal; Walter H. Crim, Salem, Ind., Republican; Dean Frank L. Martin, University of Missouri; Dean Carl Ackerman, Columbia University; Professor Charles E. Rogers, Iowa State College, and Ralph D. Casey, University of Minnesota.