As state governors grapple with their budgets for 2012, public universities and colleges are facing some of the deepest funding cuts in memory. To make matters worse, most of the federal stimulus funds, which have helped dull the pain so far, will have been spent by June. It seems almost inevitable that IT departments are going to be asked to…

The first part of this report is an evaluation of the Washington State Community College Telecourse Consortium's initial project, the offering of "The Age of Uncertainty" for credit at seven colleges during fall quarter 1977. Responses to evaluation questionnaires from six instructors and 72 students indicated that enrollments were…

This report, the first in a three-volume study evaluating federally-supported day care in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, contains a discussion of various issues related to the use of federal standards for day care services and presents four optional strategies for upgrading the quality of day care in the four states. Each strategy includes…