The conference summarized in this monograph grew out of two expressed concerns of health care personnel educators: their desire for more information about future trends in health care delivery, and their desire for better articulation of the various levels of programs preparing health related personnel. Papers presented include these: Future…

The theme of the TACTICS (Technical Assistance Consortium to Improve College Services) conference "Developing the Black Community to Save Black Colleges" was most appropriate, since the consciousness of the nation is presently being awakened to the plight of black collges, especially the public institutions. The conference dealt with how…

FID/TM, an international group concerned with theory and methods of systems cybernetics and information networks, held a panel session at the 34th Annual American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Meeting in November 1971. This report contains the seven papers presented by that panel, concerning issues in global decision-making and the role…

These conference proceedings provide summaries of remarks and two papers presented and reports of 12 seminars. The papers summarized are "Fourth Revolution-Challenge to the Community College" by Dr. Phil C. Lange and "Criterion Referenced Instruction" by Dr. Robert F. Mager. The 12 seminar topics were: Open Door, Not Revolving…

Institutional research in the junior-community college is discussed as related to the following questions: (1) What is institutional research? (2) Why has there been such an emphasis on it in recent years?; (3) What should be the goals and guiding principles of a community college institutional research operation? (4) Where should the…

In response to the demand for accountability of pupil personnel services, this report presents a management model that capitalizes on the following concepts: self, others, outcome, management. In establishing the prerequisites for effective individual management of services, the report discusses needs assessment, outcome specification, effective…

A major goal of the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Student Intern Project is to establish a means for providing high quality service-learning experiences for as many college and university students as possible. The SREB project staff administered service-learning internships for students across the region until 1968 when it became…

As the proceedings of a symposium held at the 1973 Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, theoretical and experimental results from research in the use of information theory to study human learning are presented in this volume to reflect the efforts made at the University of Pittsburgh over the past four…

Presented are nine papers given at a 1972 Washington State conference on the rights of the mentally handicapped for state attorneys and professionals in the mental retardation and mental health fields. The keynote address, by the Honorable David Bazelon focuses on the Wyatt vs. Stickney Alabama court case which affirmed the right to treatment of…

A summary of the discussions held by the participants in a 1972 conference on the education of filmmakers in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is presented. Subjects considered at the meeting included: 1) cinema and television as instruments of culture in contemporary society; 2) the education of the filmmaker as both artist and craftsman; 3) technological…

Proceedings of the 1971 Career Seminar for M.I.T. Alumni are presented in this volume for the purpose of providing information about changes in career orientation in the engineering, scientific, and managerial fields. The material is given in the style of discussions between speakers and audience. The headings are: Opening Remarks; The Effect of…

This paper discusses Bayesian m-group regression where the groups are arranged in a two-way layout into m rows and n columns, there still being a regression of y on the x's within each group. The mathematical model is then provided as applied to the case where the rows correspond to high schools and the columns to colleges: the predictor variables…

This document summarizes the activities of the 1971 Southern Research Conference in Agricultural Education. Concerned with the apparent laxity in attitude toward research, conference members chose as their motto, "Regaining the Initiative for Research in Agricultural Education." Presentations included speeches concerning the need for…

This book contains the edited papers from the eleventh International Conference on General Semantics, titled "A Search for Relevance." The conference questioned, as a central theme, the relevance of general semantics in a world of wars and human misery. Reacting to a fundamental Korzybski-ian principle that man's view of reality is…

The purpose of the present study was to gain some insight as to why students initiate but do not complete registration at Cerritos College. A sample of 1,275 were identified as not having completed the registration process preceding the Fall semester, 1972. A postage-paid postcard questionnaire was sent to each of these students; 28% were…