Among the most crucial decisions made on college and university campuses are those that bear on the selection of new institutional leaders: presidents, vice presidents, deans, and department heads. Effective procedures for recruiting, screening, and nominating candidates for these positions are essential to the vitality and future of academia.…

This Fifth Report of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education examines those forces which have prevented the adoption of some of the recommendations of the previous four reports. In posing the question--Is anyone listening to the voices of the people?--the Council implores national educational policy makers to join in the full…

This report to the President recommends the organizational restructuring and redefining of the responsibilities of the following regulatory agencies: Interstate Commerce Commission, Civil Aeronautics Board, Federal Maritime Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Power Commission. Prepared by the President's Advisory…

The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze criteria and procedures used in the selection of occupational advisory committee members in Oregon community colleges. The existence of a common core of criteria and procedures for selecting occupational advisory committee members was investigated. Further, the relationship between an…

Presented in this bulletin is the text of the hearing before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, ninety-second Congress, concerning coversion of the Nation to a metric system of weights and measures. Bill S. 2483 calls for providing a national program in order to make the international metric system the official and standard system of…

A "short orientation to new officers" in American Indian tribal governments is provided in this paper to better prepare tribal leaders to explore further the responsibilities of their positions. Origins of the powers possessed by tribal governments are reviewed. In addition, tribal government is considered separately by function as a political…

The Environmental Quality Ad Hoc Committee has prepared this report for the Governor's Natural Resources Council (Nevada). It is a compilation of available factual data focusing attention on needed statutory and administrative changes to preserve Nevada's environmental heritage and from which recommendations for future budgetary and legislative…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of selected functions of state advisory councils on vocational-technical education and the probability of accomplishing these functions with select staffing patterns and administrative organizations. Questionnaire data collected from state directors of vocational education and…

Article described the responsibilities and contributions of the Committee of Ten, charged by the NEA to seek some standardization and uniformity of college entrance requirements in the late 1890s. (Author/RK)

Reported on is a study which administered the Attitudes towards Career Education Inventory to members of State advisory counsils on vocational education, finding them generally favorable but minimally interested. The inventory and a memorandum of agreement between the Department of Labor and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare are…

Examines the process of selecting a new college president from the perspective of the chairman of the search committee. (IRT)

From 1970 until 1974, the Seattle Community College District was directed by a four-member executive committee, rather than by one chief executive officer. The history of this period is recounted, and advantages and disadvantages of the management system are identified. In sum, the system is satisfactory only in the short-run. (NHM)

Using the results of a survey of members of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) (See related article SE 521 919), factor analysis was used to identify six major areas of research priorities. (CP)

A critical analysis is made of selected portions of an ALA committee document on national information policy. The authors state that the "...document does not provide a conceptual foundation for anything. It is arrant nonsense and deserves to be repudiated as quickly and emphatically as possible." (JPF)