Regional planning has been proposed as a method for dealing with the various societal problems which cross local boundaries and which can be dealt with better in a wider geographic or regional context. The report of the California Postsecondary Education Commission is based on interviews, review of the existing literature, and visits to regional…

Six postsecondary institutions currently serve the Spokane area: a private university, two private colleges, one public college, and two community colleges. The two community colleges account for 60 percent of the total headcount enrollment in Spokane County postsecondary institutions. A seventh institution, Washington State University, views the…

This bibliography suggests a number of introductory readings that will enable regional and urban planners to understand the systems approach. The main focus of the research study that gave rise to this review of the literature was on establishing ways in which decisionmakers in regional planning could be helped in making their choices. The…

This report is presented in four parts: (1) Research Results and Their Application; (2) Manpower, Training and Public Involvements; (3) OWRR Activities; (4) Highlight Reports by the 51 State Institute Directors. Part 1 reviews the results expected to be forthcoming through projects financed during the Calendar Year 1969. This section focuses on 12…

Predictions and forecasts are the most critical features of rational planning as well as the most vulnerable to inaccuracy. Because plans are only as good as their forecasts, current planning procedures could be improved by greater forecasting accuracy. Economic factors explain and predict more than any other set of factors, making economic…

These guidelines for the Vermont Regional Community College Commission attempt to answer the following questions: (1) Who are the students to be attracted and served? (2) What kind of services are to be provided? (3) In what ways can these services best be developed? (4) What kind of resources and staff development are needed for the job? and (5)…

The need to focus on a unified environment as the social space framework of human action, brought about by the merging state of rural and urban areas, introduces this paper. A brief interpretation of our current environmental problems is presented followed by a description of some historic choices in cultural values and modes of knowledge which…

Recent California legislation now prescribes a procedure so that all territory in the state will be included in community college districts by Fall 1975. Responsibility for this procedure has been assigned to county committees on school district organization. The State Board of Governors supervises the formation of all new districts. Studies of…

Over the past several years, the universities of Ontario have made a gigantic effort under the direction of the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario (CPUO) to provide quality higher education for all qualified students. This document presents a review of the activities of the CPUO prior to 1966, a discussion of the highlights of…

The Research Committee of the Committee of Presidents of the Provincially Assisted Universities of Ontario was charged in 1966 with preparing a study of university development in the 1970s. The first section of this report contains a description of university expansion in Ontario between 1962 and 1966. The remaining chapters set out in broad terms…

The Draft Report of the Joint Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Regional Computing Centres of the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario made a tentative recommendation that a regional computer center should be developed for the use of Ontario universities. However, on further investigation it was found that such a computer center would be…

Following a brief review of the current Louisiana library system at all levels (both public and private), needs, goals, objectives, and implementation suggestions are made in the following areas: personnel; library materials; service to the disadvantaged, the blind and physically handicapped, and the health and correctional institutions;…

The Governor's alternate in Georgia explains the importance of evaluation for regional programs and Georgia's approach to the problem. (Author/JC)

Presenting recommendations to Congress/the Carter Administration developed by the Appalachian Governors at the 1977 Appalachian Conference, this article describes the Conference and its Task Force recommendations re: the structure of Federalism; energy and its socioeconomic impacts; jobs; income, and human services; environment and natural…

A model of interagency cooperation the Windham County (Connecticut) Student Environment Center was begun entirely with resources available in most counties of the U.S. and is currently cooperating as a field based training center for pre-service elementary teachers andan educational camp for elementary and secondary students. (JC)