This study examined the organizational structures for professional staff participation in decision making at selected university libraries with membership in the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, and determined the perceived degree, quality, and effectiveness of staff participation. Twenty-two library directors and 192 professional…

Twenty-four of the 35 Canadian schools with formal journalism programs responded to a survey conducted to collect data about enrollment, curricula, faculty background in journalism, and the ability of journalism graduates to find jobs in the profession. Highlights of the results are as follows: there are an estimated 3,300 journalism students in…

Publishers, book wholesalers, and librarians were surveyed in early 1974 to provide background data for a program at the American Library Association Annual Conference 1975. Publishers were queried about their relations with libraries, promotional activities (including relations with review media, direct mailings, and advertising), and sales to…

A public information center was established in an area covering 16 libraries in Detroit, Michigan. Funded by a Title I grant, the center sought to increase the effectiveness of information flow to residents and to compile a community resources directory. Several types of literature were reviewed and information was gathered from the Detroit Public…

Beginning as a pilot study in the spring of 1973, this analysis developed into a full study whose purpose was to determine how much of a financial subsidy the institutions of higher education do provide to the professional touring performing arts. The magnitude of expenditures as well as a measure of subsidies provided by sponsoring institutions…

This study presents statistics on the demographic characteristics of the post-doctoral population, on the role of the post-doctoral fellow in the university, and on the financing of post-doctoral education. The definition of a post-doctoral fellow used is a person holding a temporary appointment intended to provide an opportunity for continued…

The Office of Education Guidance and Counseling Project for Adult Basic Education in Region VII includes five state programs, each run somewhat autonomously, in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, for which joint training preparations were made. In Phase I of the Project the central staff gathered statistical data on students,…

A survey was conducted through the Mountain-Plains Community College Leadership Program of the University of Colorado to: (1) ascertain the value of various activities that might be useful as part of a community development program; (2) determine the extent of community development services now being provided and the extent to which they should be…

The results of a national survey of salaries at public community colleges in 39 states and Puerto Rico are presented. The survey data were collected for the 1972-73 year in seven states and for 1973-74 in the rest of the states. The report is divided into six sections that correspond to the six questions on the questionnaire, which were as…

The results of a study of student and administrator attitudes at a private and a public university indicate that on policy, and other issues relevant to the campus community, the differences between students and administrators are perceptual rather than real, although students expected administrators to be more conservative than they really were.…

Surveys the general organizational principles and forms of keeping the zemstvo (regional) statistics on Russian public education. Conveys that they were subdivided into three types: (1) the current statistics that continuously monitored schools; (2) basic surveys that provided a comprehensive characterization of a given territory's public…

This study attempts to define the principle tasks of secondary education as perceived by parents, educators, and students in one Canadian suburban school district in 1971. In addition, it compares their opinions with those of similar groups in the United States and Canada surveyed a decade earlier. The Task of Public Education (TPE) Opinionnaire…

Five hundred ninety-five students enrolled in undergraduate classes in psychology and business administration at the University of Maryland completed an anonymous questionnaire inquiring about their use or nonuse of marijuana, their reasons for using or not using the substance, and their attitudes toward the legal penalties for marijuana…

RESPONSES WERE GATHERED FROM OVER 8,000 TEACHERS ON A QUESTIONNAIRE TO DETERMINE THOSE FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCED THE EMPLOYMENT OF AUDIOVISUAL TECHNIQUES IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. PRIMARY VARIABLES USED TO OBTAIN NUMEROUS STATISTICAL DATA TABULATED IN THIS REPORT WERE--(1) ECOLOGICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS,…

The study assessed the need for continued inservice training to migrant personnel in the skill and understanding of the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS), and determined directions for planning future training sessions. A 50-item questionnaire was administered to 240 persons attending the MSRTS workshops at the 1977 State Migrant…