The state of Minnesota has established the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) to coordinate the state's educational computing activities. The Consortium is governed by a board of directors representing the State Department of Education, the State Junior Colleges, the State Colleges, the State University and the public and is…

This report describes the cooperative activities of eight colleges/universities and four junior colleges using an IBM 370/145 system in central Mississippi. The Network provides the equipment with the accompanying educational effort, so as to allow each participating institution to become more aware of the academic implication of computers as they…

This report highlights the activities and accomplishments of the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC) and its network of State Occupational Information Coordinating Committees (SOICCs) during program year 1989 (July 1, 1989-June 30, 1990). Some of the year's activities were the following: (1) NOICC began development of…

This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of software packages for use in Texas vocational agriculture programs and to recommend strategies for future inservice educational needs of vocational agriculture teachers. The population surveyed comprised the nine teacher education programs in agricultural education in Texas, in which…

An overview is provided of the development of the statewide computer-assisted Student On-Line Advisement and Articulation (SOLAR) system in Florida. After providing background information on the history and current status of articulation and transfer in Florida and on a 1986-87 pilot study of the feasibility of implementing the SOLAR system, the…