A model is presented and interpreted by which college and university boards of trustees periodically assess and evaluate key academic administrators, including presidents, vice presidents, and deans. Evaluation is defined as a process of review to assess the performance of academic administrators and to make a value judgment concerning this…

Records the preceedings of the hearing before the House Subcommittee on Select Education, September 8, 1976, on foster care. Included are the statements and prepared statements presented to the committee. An appendix contains additional prepared statements and related materials. (SB)

Argues that universities' excessive concern for participation in administration (interest representation, committee structure, shared responsibility) shackles the development of adaptive structures and organization climate required within fast-changing modern society. (JT)

In response to evidence of concern for student academic learning activities outside the classroom, the author discusses the implications for learning in four general settings in which faculty and students interact: gathering and evaluation of information, dissemination of information, faculty-student committee work, and personal relationships. (JT)

Describes the ways in which the New York State Special Education Instructional Materials Center has become a major force in improving education for handicapped children in the state, with special reference to parent education and participation programs. (ED)

The adult education program planning strategy developed and utilized by the University of Georgia's Center for Continuing Education proposes that there are three critical parties to the program planning process: representatives of the clientele group, the faculty, and the adult education arm of the educational institution. Their roles are…

The secretary of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education reviews the first year's work of the Council, a national independent organization for consultation and advice on adult and continuing education in England and Wales. (MF)

AAUP staff work in academic freedom and tenure is reviewed, including the imposition and removal of censure, determining credit for prior service elsewhere, sex discrimination complaints, confidentiality of faculty files, due process, and DNA research. (LBH)

Major findings of a three-year National Institute of Education study of citizen participation in education are the large extent and frequent ambiguity of the intervention of government agencies to increase citizen involvement in schools, and the continuing domination of educational decision-making by professionals. (Author/MLF)

Summarizing the Task Force Issues Paper presented at the Appalachian Conference on Balanced Growth and Economic Development (1977), this article presents selected comments by Task Force participants and the Task Force's six recommendations (re: regional development commissions; legislative action; administration of regional development…

Discusses the purpose, role, and need for citizens' advisory councils in vocational and technical aviation education programs. (SL)

Three Dutch bodies--the Netherlands Universities Council, the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation, and the Rectors' Conference--have traditionally been active in the field of international contacts between universities. Discusses the responsibilities of these three bodies. (Editor/RK)

Presents some of the findings of a study which describes, analyzes, and interprets the role and function of the California Journalism Articulation Committee. (KS)

Describes an innovative career counseling program that uses parents who are active in a profession as the source of information about that profession. (IRT)

Suggests using a Communications Board--composed of student journalists, advisers, media professionals and nonmedia students--for selecting publications editors and station managers and for setting policy for student media. (MB)