Instructor-coordinators as well as administrators and program planners should find this guide useful in working with advisory committees on vocational education. Specifically, the purpose of the booklet is to discuss the use of advisory committees in the distributive education and cooperative office education areas. Major sections of the guide…

Oakland Community College allowed a "Chronicle" reporter to watch the college president selection process. Their experiences are described, and some lessons they learned are offered: the process is imperfect, consultants shape the process heavily, and "chemistry" makes the ultimate difference among the finalists. (MLW)

The most important responsibility of any Board of Education is the selection of its Superintendent of Schools. The Council of the Great City Schools compiled this document to assist its member school boards in beginning the search for a new superintendent. Many models exist for conducting a search in urban schools: a basic and generic one is…

This tongue-in-cheek dialogue explores the excesses of total commitment to a democratic program planning process. (NHM)

Presented is a summary of considerations Specialized Agencies within the United Nations have given to the problems of the human environment. Uppermost are the problems of pollution--air, water, noise, marine, radiation, food, pesticide--as well as those of economic and social concern, environmental health, and misuse of the environment. Agencies…

Presented in this bulletin is the text of the hearing before the Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, United States House of Representatives, ninety-first Congress, concerning the transfer of environmental evaluation functions to the Environmental Quality Council (EQC). The hearing was held…

Current policies and practices of committees used in university libraries to search for and screen candidates for positions are described, primarily from responses to a survey conducted by the authors. (Author)

This publication discusses The Blue Ribbons Schools Programs. It included information about (1) which schools may be nominated, (2) how schools are chosen, (3) which selection criteria is used, (4) what the benefits are, and (5) State Recognition Programs. (Author)

Describes the role of a curriculum specialist in working with curriculum committees. (GB)

All federal advisory committee meetings are to be open to the public. Yet only few such meetings have been made open by National Institute of Health. Several loopholes in the law seem apparent. (PS)

The constituency of the American Library Association Committees is presented. (NH)