The Academy for Educational Development (AED) sent a research team to Western Oregon University (WOU) on November 17-18, 2008, to conduct interviews with individuals who play important roles in the university's teacher preparation program. These interviews, along with additional materials provided by WOU and identified by the AED research team,…

The purpose of the 1971 Higher Education Act (HEA) Institute for Training in Librarianship and Drug Education was to train teams of librarians and media specialists from academic and school libraries to develop comprehensive drug education packages made up of both commercially available materials and locally produced learning aids designed to meet…

The School of Library Science of North Carolina Central University continued for a second year its Title II-B Higher Education Act project designed to help meet the manpower needs of the public library profession as well as to recruit and train librarians for more effective use of the diverse learning media and resources appropriate for young…

A three-phase project, funded under the Higher Education Act Title II-B, was initiated in 1971 to investigate and improve public library services to preschool children in North Carolina. The first goal of the project was to locate and describe existing services with a field survey covering 36 counties. Although the survey technique and…

Based on information in Department of Education files and further comments from former project directors, this historical review of projects funded from fiscal years 1978 to 1981 under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act (HEA II-C) of 1965, as amended in 1976, looks at projects in collection development, preservation and conservation of major…