Universities throughout the United States operate engagement centers to extend campus faculty, staff and student resources to their communities. In 2014, the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) opened the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (Weitz CEC): a privately funded $24 million, 70,000 square foot facility located in the middle of its…

This dissertation captures the 10-year contemporary history of implementing the facilities element of New Jersey's historic "Abbott V" decision. New Jersey's Legislature and Governor took this Supreme Court decision and created legislation responding to multiple constituencies and lobbyists while shaping a school construction program to…

Education is a great instrument of importance to every nation. It, therefore, attracts considerable attention. It has been generally conceived that only an educated population can command the skills necessary for sustainable economic growth and a better quality of life. The quality of education received by citizens is therefore important in…

This article seeks to augment an emerging interest in education policy research in enactment theorising, to explicitly consider the role and contribution of materiality in this theorising. Guided by the notion of policy "matters," the article takes as its empirical context a major policy initiative, the Building the Education Revolution…

Across Sub-Saharan Africa it is evident that humanities and social sciences research is in urgent need of support. Universities and researchers face many challenges, the results of declining funding in the face of huge increases in enrollments. Infrastructure and facilities are insufficient and incomes have fallen. Many academics have been forced…

This bulletin is one in the series on pupil transportation issued by the Office of Education. Its purpose is to furnish information and guidance for local school administrators and others who are concerned with school bus maintenance. Programs of school bus maintenance vary among the 48 States. Presumably all contract vehicles are maintained by…

In an attempt to collect information about pre-kindergarten programs at institutions of higher learning, a random sample of 310 college and university presidents in the United States were asked to respond to a questionnaire. The purposes of the survey were the following: (1) to estimate how many pre-kindergarten programs are sponsored by colleges…

A wide range of articles concerned with the major work and interests of college unions are organized into six topical areas; (1) philosophical considerations about the purposes and directions of college unions; (2) management and operation of the college union; (3) food service; (4) programming; (5) contemporary society and the college union; and…

Many Latin American countries are undertaking projects, in line with practices disseminated by PEB, to share school facilities with the local community, to adapt traditional schools for students with disabilities, and to collaborate with private companies to finance educational buildings. The articles below describe current initiatives in five…

The survival and improvement of culture in desirable forms in American society will require increased knowledge and skills; renewed social and civic consciousness; and the physical, social, and economic well-being of all citizens. This general uplifting can be accomplished only through broadened educational efforts at the grassroots community…

The described plan projects future demographic changes in the school district community; and examines the kinds of educational programs, school facilities, and financing that will be required. Following an introduction and a summary of the major recommendations, four chapters, each developed by a professional educational specialist in close…

The Riverside Center in New York offers a persuasive argument that group infant care is an important step for sound child development and parental involvement. (CS)

This article offers guidelines for understanding Title VI Grants from the Office of Education and for making grant proposals. (AM)

Testimony relative to the Vocational Education Improvement Act Amendments of 1967 as given in three Committee sessions is presented in the form of verbatim oral questions and answers, prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials. Major prepared statements were by (1) Harold Howe II, (2) Grant Venn, (3) The Division of Adult and…

This factbook presents information on the operations of the state university system of Florida, 1973. Statistical data is provided for enrollment, program and degree summaries, faculty and staff, physical facilities, finance, and miscellaneous. A glossary, campus maps, and organizational charts are included. (MJM)