To insure the accountability of the North Carolina Community College System, the North Carolina Legislature in 1973 set aside monies to employ two individuals who would work with the Controller's Office of the State Board of Education to review the reporting of student hours at the various community colleges and technical institutes. The…

In an effort to promote and stimulate further dialogue and thought about the role of ethics and religion in the environmental movement, a conference entitled "Ethics for Environment: Three Religious Strategies" was held at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay in June 1973. Conference participants explored the elements of the Christian…

Part one of this two-part document contains a report on the Consultative Assembly of the Council on Cultural Cooperation together with reports on the following meetings held at the annual assembly: Higher Education and Research, General and Technical Education, Out-of-School Education and Cultural Development, and Educational Documentation and…

The Workshop on Regional Drug Abuse Programming was called to investigate the need for a Federally-supported model, stressing inter-agency coordination, to be employed by states as a guide for establishing substate area programs, and to explore other questions related to programs for drug abuse prevention and treatment. The organization of state…

Three major presentations from the 1973 Library Automation Research and Consulting Institute are included here. The first outlines the course of library automation in the preceding 10 years. The second is a discussion of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Automated Instructional Materials Handling System (AIMS), which includes materials…

Seventy-seven percent of Wisconsin's AM stations, 57 percent of FM stations, and 38 percent of television stations broadcast agricultural market news. Most stations devote less than 30 minutes daily to the market reports, which are usually broadcast twice daily, five days a week. Radio market reports are in the early morning and noon hour periods,…

A special issue of the journal "On Line" is devoted to reporting the 1974 Instructional Computing in Michigan conference. The conference was divided into numerous sessions, and there are individual reports summarizing the activities and papers of each session. The sessions reported are on the instructional computing aspects of…

This document presents the minutes of the 1974 Proceedings of the National Association of State Boards of Education, the budget proposed at the proceedings, and summaries of papers presented. Summaries are given of the following papers: (a) The Challenge of Educational Leadership: State Boards and Results Oriented Management; (b) Sex Bias…

The National Dissemination Project was originally funded by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity to develop and test a more aggressive model for educational dissemination--a model aimed at increasing the usefulness of information for the practictioner. In this final report, the NDP dissemination model is presented, predicated on the following…

The paper gives a brief overview of several 'traditional' approaches to computer-assisted instruction (CAI). A new CAI language is then described which allows the user to write programs which generate both questions and answers with a minimum of programming effort. An implementation of the described system is discussed in detail, followed by a…

California is spending over four billion dollars a year to feed, educate, punish, shelter, and care for children. Numerous studies have concluded, however, that these services are frequently uncoordinated, duplicative, wasteful, and ineffective. Yet when corrective actions are proposed, they deal only with fragments of the system. The Assembly…

The organization, staffing, finance, and projected budget for the North Dakota Tri-College University Libraries are discussed. All the activities and recent developments of the Tri-College University Libraries are reviewed and particular attention is paid to personnel changes, administration, financing, acquisitions, and expansions. (WH)

The papers in this volume are: Learning to Be; Staff Development for Student Development; A Humanistic Approach to Educational Management; Inservice Education, A Total Staff Involvement; Community Colleges as Political Institutions; Student Development--Where Are We Going; Of Time and Modules--The Organization of Instruction; Measuring Student…

U.S. Office of Education grants for 1972 in the field of environmental education are described briefly in this pamphlet. Grants were awarded in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Micronesia to promote a better understanding of the environment, the Nation's environmental problems, and the options for enhancing the…

Evaluation of an ESEA Title III project, "An Inter-Disciplinary Problem Solving Approach to Environmental Education" located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is offered in this interim report. The report is primarily concerned with the degree to which operational and management process objectives are being achieved in each of four…