This report describes the activities and operations of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). Over the past 12 months, WICHE member states have faced the toughest financial times in recent memory. Higher education in member states, as in the rest of the country, has been hit hard, with midyear budget cuts, reduced…

This document reports on the Migrant Education Secondary Assistance Project's third and final outreach meeting, conducted in conjunction with the National Migrant Education Conference attended by migrant educators from across the nation. These educators have identified effective preventative strategies such as the elimination of grade retention,…

This document describes the Migrant Education Secondary Assistance Project's second outreach meeting, which was held in conjunction with an interstate counselors' workshop. The meeting, one of a three-part series, addressed student mobility, the most perplexing problem of migrant youth. Mobility is the major characteristic that makes migrant…

Overcoming the challenges of educational discontinuity that arise from the migratory lifestyle is the central focus of the Migrant Education Program. This chapter describes Project SMART (Summer Migrants Access Resources through Technology), a national distance learning program for migrant students that addresses such challenges by coordinating…

Newborn screening and genetic technologies are expanding and changing rapidly, increasing the demand for genetic specialty services. Because of the scarcity and geographic maldistribution of genetic specialty services, access to these services is a critical issue. This article discusses some of the efforts initiated by the Maternal and Child…

The pressures engendered by the scarce resources of the 1980s demand the development of new organizational designs that respond to local cultural, economic, and social needs. In the Cumberland and Shenandoah Valleys, a four-state region containing 12 postsecondary institutions, a voluntary association of colleges was formed to solve mutual and…

The Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. The program has three permanent sites--two year-round sites in Washington which serve both mobile migrants and seasonal farm workers' children, and a home base site in Grulla, Texas which serves only mobile migrant children. Teachers from…

Conceived as an educational experiment designed to meet the unique needs of migrant children, Training Migrant Paraprofessionals in Bilingual Mini Head Start is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. Initiated in 1971, the program has two components: the "Mobile Component" and the "Washington State…

Combining URRD and other funding sources, the program provides an interstate and interdistrict tutoring service, usually outside of regular school hours, to children of migrant and seasonal farm worker families. The tutoring is done by adult paraprofessionals, many of whom are parents or relatives of the children served. Parents also participate…

The early education program uses paraprofessional teachers to provide bilingual multicultural education to children of migrant and seasonal farm workers. The program operates on an interstate and interdistrict basis. Interstate migrant children from south Texas are followed from their home base community to northern locations. By working…

North Carolina established programs and projects designed to meet the special educational needs of migrant children and coordinated them with similar agencies. During the 1975-76 school year, the migrant program's priorities were program continuity, regular school term and summer projects for interstate and intrastate migrants, staff development…

During its second year the Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education developed six competency-based modules for use in the preparation of local administrators of secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. A four-stage development process was used: preparation of module prospectus, preparation…

The project operates year-round sites at Connell and at Moses Lake, Washington. A mobile site which operates in La Grulla, Texas during the home base period, sends teachers out to follow migrant families as they move north for seasonal farm work, operating the educational program in temporary sites along the northern work route. The project…

An early education program for preschool and elementary age migrant children up through third grade, the program operates year-round sites at Connell and Moses Lake, Washington and at La Grulla, Texas designed to meet the needs of bilingual migrant children. The program aims to overcome the need for some continuity in the child's educational…

This issue of "Exchanges" highlights a number of issues in the challenge to align appropriations, tuition and financial aid (AFTA) policy. Two distinct trends in the nature of the American student population are identified: significant demographic shifts and the emerging necessity of serving adult learners. These shifts are prompting…