The North Carolina Department of Community Colleges offers a variety of services which are intended to enable institutions within that state to identify, develop, and deliver their services in an efficient and effective manner. This document provides the local institution with a suggested model which might be used in the preparation of long and…

The recognized need for institutions to make policy decisions about the hiring, career progress, and retention of highly qualified academic and nonacademic staff prompted this manpower study. A statement of some basic elements in Ontario universities pertaining especially to faculty career planning is presented followed by a quantitative…

The Ontario Council on Graduate Studies' appraisal of graduate planning in Ontario universities reveals that the graduate enterprise is not excessively large and is not growing in an uncontrolled manner and that doctoral graduates are finding jobs in their fields. The easing of the growth of graduate enrollments, the need to react positively to…

During the period extending from May 1972 through April 1973, an investigation of the overall water quality conditions of streams flowing into Lake Superior from the entire state of Wisconsin was conducted. The goal of this publication was to provide much needed regional information on water quality, drainage basins, pollution sources and loads,…

During May 1972, the Adult Education Center of Santa Barbara City College sponsored a symposium on the goals and purposes of planning for community development. Through lecture and discussion, members of the community undertook a critical review of the related problems of community, growth, population, taxes, transportation, zoning and water. This…

The philosophy of, and approach to, national socioeconomic development planning are discussed in this second annual report and review of the Canadian Council on Rural Development. The first chapter seeks to define essential elements of the question of development (1) by describing in broad terms some socioeconomic disparities which exist within…

While two-year community colleges have been presenting continuing education programs, one feature of the programs has continued to be dominant: their essential marginality. The new emphasis on serving the whole community calls for a totally different approach--that of integrating continuing education fully into the colleges' regular program. This…

At an institute at the University of Oklahoma, some 85 people from Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma discussed ways to improve cross-cultural and user developed library services to all types of disadvantaged persons. The participants were librarians and representatives of the minorities, the culturally different, and the poor.…

This report examines current trends in long range planning for colleges and universities and projects the broad outlines of American higher education of 1980. Chapters cover evaluation of coordination and long range planning; the structure of state-wide planning and coordination; master plans for higher education; voluntary coordination and long…

The U.S. Office of Education sought applications for a first-year proposal of a potential three-year staff development project in each of nine Health, Education, and Welfare regions. Region II (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) received one of the grants with the objective of designing a competency-based staff development…

Resulting from a survey of Pennsylvania's predominately rural 25-district Region C (Fayette, Greene, and Washington counties), this report presents findings related to each district in terms of general information (e.g., per-pupil costs), special personnel (e.g., curriculum coordinators), programs (e.g., adult education), instructional practices…

Prepared to assist in the planning for cable television in the Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area, this document provides not only general information about the history and current state of cable television, but also an example of the application of such information to the policy demands of a specific situation. Given the technology and…

The membership of the Southeast Industrial Arts Conference was commissioned at its annual meeting in Atlanta in 1970 to develop position statements on a variety of questions and issues facing industrial arts in the Southeast. Prepared by a task force having 10 groups of members, this report contains the position statements developed at this…

San Diego County, California, has established a program in which a mobile van visits cooperating schools to provide teachers with ideas for metric related activities. (SD)

This paper examines urban and regional planning and the urban impact of welfare programs in the United States as compared to the major Northern European capitalist countries. American differences are explained in terms of class structure, ideology, and political organization. (Author/EB)