A detailed financial and administrative services cost analysis indicates trends at John Tyler Community College (JTCC) as well as offering a comparison between JTCC expenditures and the Virginia Community College System Average. Rising costs per FTE are attributed to enrollment declines coupled with a decline in credit hours taken per student.…

This report presents brief descriptions of the National Institute of Education's (NIE) major programs in fiscal year 1973 and fiscal year 1974. Included in the description of each program is a discussion of one sample project underway in that field. In addition to the descriptions, each section contains a list of contractors and grantees who…

Reported are proceedings from the New York State Conference on Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) for the Hearing Impaired (1974). Chapter 1 includes background information from documents mandating competency based teacher education and certification, and the basic assumptions and objectives of the conference. Presented in Chapter 2 are six…

The proceedings of a 3 day institute on early intervention programs for emotionally handicapped preschool children include two brief presentations on parent relations and toilet training of children with developmental problems. Described is an individualized approach to working with parents which focuses on helping mothers to acquire attitudes and…

This report was prepared by participants in the Pre-Conference Workshop for Foreign Language Consultants and Supervisors at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in November 1974. In part 1, exploratory language programs are described, and goals for such programs are listed in part 2. Part 3 describes five…

Contained in this working report are the results of the Community Forum on Financial Assistance held on September 24, 1974 at Rhode Island Junior College. The two-hundred and fifteen people invited to the conference were asked by mail to rank the eight financial aid criteria in terms of importance for possible use in selecting financial assistance…

This report describes the proceedings of the Association for Education in Journalism--Junior College Journalism Association Advertising Workshop, held at Fort Collins, Colorado, with the general objective of organizing an introductory advertising course. The specific objectives of the workshop were to determine the content, textbooks, and types of…

In April 1973, the Graduate School of Library Service Alumni Association and the Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers University jointly sponsored a symposium on the position of women in the library profession. Three major presentations, and the discussions which followed, dealt with various aspects of this issue. The first presentation,…

Some 35 papers resulting from presentations made at the 1974 Conference on Rural Land-Use Policy in the Northeast constitute this report on conference proceedings. Part 1 presents papers from the general sessions which deal with generalities relative to the following four major alternatives: (1) police power, (2) transfer of development rights,…

Correct as of May 1, 1975, this 15th annual Arizona tribal directory for American Indians includes listings relative to: (1) membership in the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs; (2) Arizona Indian Reservation Areas; (3) Arizona Indian reservation population and acreage figures; (4) Arizona's 19 Indian reservations (tribal officials, council…

This collection of papers presented at the 1970 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association includes: (1) "An Experimental Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Selected Techniques and Resources on Instruction in Vocational Agriculture," by A.A. Kahler and others, discussing the influence of techniques and methods on student…

User experiments are the main theme of this tenth issue in the series of Project Intrex semiannual activity reports. This system is undergoing tests with users who are motivated by their need for information rather than an interest in the machinery by which it is stored, retrieved and presented. Test results will indicate which fields in the…

To develop a national policy aimed at eliminating hunger and malnutrition due to poverty and improving the nutritional health of all Americans, 26 panels composed of concerned citizens and academic, medical, industrial, and agricultural experts and eight task forces representing social action groups, religious denominations, women's and…

Using a developmental approach to establish a rational model for the assignment of tasks and roles to various levels of mental health manpower, 36 participants attended four 2-day seminars which were concerned with needs of clients, activities to meet the needs of clients, needs of agencies and institutions, and legal, institutional, and…

Summarized are the proceedings of the Special Study Institute, attended by directors of special education and of educational communications, and by teachers of emotionally handicapped children. Several projects in the fields of special education media were presented and reviewed, illustrating innovative approaches to teaching emotionally…