This memorandum of agreement for an academic common market is drawn up under the general framework of operation of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). The agreement is designed to establish an academic common market for sharing specified academic programs through an exchange of students across state borders. The Common Market will assist…

The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, whose goal is facilitating resource sharing and cooperation, is described. Barriers to cooperation including absence of leadership, lack of adequate financial incentives, and the tendency to encourage and reward isolated behavior are discussed. (MLW)

The Academic Common Market is an interstate agreement among Southern states for sharing academic programs. Participating states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each state is able to make arrangements for its residents who qualify…

This surveillance report is an update of the Laboratory's December 1967, report. It presents the current status of (1) organizational arrangements to facilitate the use of research and development information within the public school setting and (2) personnel training programs for increasing the use of research and development information by…

Proceedings include presentations during sessions on: issues in interstate programs in graduate education; graduate manpower; increasing opportunities in graduate education for minorities and women; information retrieval; the Graduate Record Examination; creativity in graduate education; assessing graduate program quality; accreditation;…

This report of a National Conference on Regionalism and Regionalization in American Postsecondary Education contains an overview and summary of the final project report, a keynote address, four papers on the implications of regionalism, some reactor comments, an essay on leadership, and four descriptive accounts of operational regionalization…