Conditions in academic employment associated with increasingly tense political struggles for anthropology departments are discussed. Personnel policies for state-supported institutions are cited as areas of major controversy and the effect of student enrollments on the setting of staffing-level parameters is emphasized. Politics internal to…

The State University of New York Program on Faculty Retraining is described. Retraining is defined as preparation to move from one academic field to another or from one subfield of a discipline to another. It is distinguished from faculty development, involving the acquisition of new skills or knowledge applicable to one's ongoing…

Survey data, collected by the vocational education sections of the California State Department of Education and the California community colleges, outline the number of indentured apprentices who are receiving related and supplemental instruction in California public secondary schools, adult schools, and community colleges. Data on the schools or…

Decreasing budgets and enrollments, the reluctance of state legislatures to provide funds for higher education facilities, and the rising costs of energy necessitate the development of space ownership management. Three patterns of space planning problems have developed at different colleges: (1) costly, underutilized facilities due to optimistic…

Future changes in the characteristics of student populations, and the institutions of higher education which they attend, is becoming a concern of student affairs administrators. Among the areas in which future development could have an impact on student affairs programs are: (1) changes in the national birthrate and subsequent fall in college…

The disproportionate enrollment numbers of males and females in various classes in the Hayward, California Unified School District were investigated. A needs assessment was conducted to identify the subject, teacher, total enrollment, and sexual composition of the classes. Results indicated that 39 classes were disproportionate in their sexual…

This booklet is the sixth in a series that examines community school centers. This compendium of resources for planning community school centers contains information on published materials, organizations and associations, and a geographical listing of community school centers. The materials include recent literature on community school centers and…

The first sections of this Master Plan outline the history of the Illinois Public Community College System and its mission and scope. The next section deals with enrollment projections in terms of the changes in the state's population, and implications for enrollments; the decreasing college-going rate of high school graduates; increased…

A record of hearings is presented conducted by the United States House of Representatives into a bill (H.R. 123) to provide Federal grants to elementary and secondary schools to carry on programs related to citizenship and ethnics. The bill, introduced by Florida Congressman Charles E. Bennett, would be financed by an appropriation of $5,000,000…

A report is made on a teacher preparation evaluation program that consisted of a systematic follow-up of teachers both while in the undergraduate programs and after they entered the profession. The data provided covers a period of more than seven years. Changes in teacher behavior as experience is gained are examined, and additional findings about…

Designed for those who work with foreign students attending Canadian universities and colleges and students who intend to study at Canadian educational institutions, the guide outlines the provisions of the 1978 Canadian Immigration Act. The introductory section covers such areas as definitions of visas and student authorizations, the general…

THIS STATISTICAL REPORT PRESENTS DATA ON THE NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING POPULATION OF NEW YORK CITY'S SCHOOLS. ENGLISH-SPEAKING ABILITY WAS DETERMINED BY A TEACHER RATING AND A 5-POINT SCALE. THE REPORT GIVES DATA ON THE SCHOOL REGISTRATION OF THIS GROUP IN THE CITY AS A WHOLE, IN EACH BOROUGH AND IN EACH INSTRUCTIONAL DIVISION. A SUMMARY POINTS OUT…

A study was made of the expenditure of Federal funds in Missouri schools under the Adult Education Act of 1966, involvement by state public education agencies in adult basic education programs according to such selected factors as school size, assessed valuation, classification, and geographical location; and major characteristics of the adult…

To help with plans for developing all the health services personnel necessary to alleviate shortages of help for doctors and hospitals, this study has been undertaken. Veterans Administration hospitals were asked to report their potential for health services manpower training, taking advantage of the Manpower Development and Training Act and…

Designed to reflect the growth in technical education and to fulfill the need for a single source document containing information about that field, this third edition was compiled for those schools now offering technician training, for those planning to offer such training in the near future, and for guidance personnel who counsel young people…