This document described the annual report for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education for 1972. Reports are given for the various programs at WICHE including the Division of Regional Programs, the Division of Mental Health and Related Areas, and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. WICHE (1) seeks to increase…

This report represents a regional approach to the immediate problems of higher education in New York City, and proposes a series of recommendations toward the cooperative resolutions of these problems. The Regents Advisory Council accepted as its charge a survey of the human, fiscal and physical resources of higher education institutions in New…

Discussion of relationship between regional service agency and constituents in planning executive decision. (KJ)

Discusses the advantages of using state and regional areas in conducting needs assessments for continuing education of librarians. The importance of organizational identification, target audience, assessment techniques, and role of the needs assessment to an overall program of continuing education are also addressed. Four references are cited.…

The purpose of this paper is, first, to highlight the role of the relationships between universities, institutions and firms in different regional development processes working towards a knowledge economy, and, second, to draw some implications for local policy makers. Adopting the regional innovation system (RIS) approach, the authors analyse …

The first part of this paper addresses two broad aspects of the current reforms in Croatian higher education. The reforms are largely driven by the desire to achieve harmony with the European Area of Higher Education. Special attention is paid to presentation of the first experiences with implementation of the Bologna process in Croatia, which…

The Bologna process is a comprehensive concept for European higher education reforms of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, it means something else in Central European countries than it does in the rest of Europe. It has been combined in Central Europe with a major social change referred to as the "political transformation" (Johnson…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and RCE-Barcelona in the context of two organisations with a strategic aim to further Education for Sustainable Development. A special emphasis is put in the role that UPC has had in the creation and development of this project,…

Plans for housing sites and entire communities should integrate and detail all the complexities of an area such as land contours, soil, vegetation, drainage, and ownership. Designers' personalized styles may create distorted effects when transferred to the three-dimensional environment. People living in the communities should be involved in…

A professional update team of foreign language teachers promotes the interests of the membership and encourages cooperation and professional improvement at all levels. The first task in organizing such a group is to choose individuals who represent all segments of the profession and to include administrators in as active a capacity as possible.…

This documentation presents an input-output model which has been modified to include the environmental impact of economic operation. In lieu of market prices for the environmental factors, trade-offs with regional income and employment are estimated for use in regional planning. The program is written in FORTRAN IV with single precision for the…

In developing the Idaho College Populations study (see HE 004 192), each college in Idaho identified each Idaho freshman and junior student by the high school from which he graduated. Using the same raw data, an attempt has been made in the present study to establish a measure of relative pulling power of specific colleges on graduates of in-state…

This document presents an evaluation report of the New England Regional Student Program, a program that is a unique effort on the part of the 6 New England states to expand opportunities in postsecondary education for citizens of the region, and to use all regional, postsecondary instructional facilities in the most economic manner. In the major…