The 1975-76 handbook is designed as a policy and procedures manual for the guidance of all faculty personnel, providing information about the various operations of the university, an understanding of the policies that guide these operations, and a familiarity with approved procedures. The organization of university administration is described,…

The 1975 faculty and staff handbook contains seven major sections on organization and administration, faculty organization and procedure, academic policies, travel, general employment practices, and facilities and services. State and local governing boards and administrative personnel are described and an organizational chart is given. Specific…

The 1974 revised handbook was prepared as an informal guide to services, facilities, and policies at the university, as well as university structure and administration. Faculty privileges and responsibilities are described in a major section. Other chapters deal with rules and regulations, social and professional organizations, cultural and…

Pending a revision of the handbook, the 1971 edition is reprinted virtually unchanged. Its two major sections cover administrative and faculty organization. Details are offered on the roles of the administrative officers, including the board of directors, the president, and the general administrative officers for academic affairs, business…

A group of 25 members of the higher education community of North America visited the Middle East for the purpose of improving admissions criteria and academic placement of Arab students. Group findings and the consensus of recommendations are reported. Countries studied were: Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Examined were each country's…

This document is the final draft of a preliminary design for a new kind of urban school. It is published in the expectation that the school it describes can and will be built and operated, in the near future. The New School is designed to be a replicatable model for the reform of urban education. The design has its origins in the conviction that…

Initiated in 1969 at the request of the University of California President's Advisory Committee on Learning Resources, this study identifies the essential criteria for planning university learning resources centers in the 1970's. General definitions of learning resources for conventional and innovative instruction are given together with a brief…

This monograph investigates aspects of language processing that are not specialized in the left hemisphere, and claims that there are "levels" (such as pitch functions) and "subsets" (such as phrase structuring) which are different in essential ways from each other, and from the aspects of speech and language which are typically lateralized.…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. The guidelines and criteria presented here are intended to be used as yardsticks for institutional evaluation of student registration and class scheduling practices. A chapter on the planning process discusses the steps to be taken in planning,…

Two related questions are investigated in this research: (1) the characteristics which differentiate those schools which extensively use educational innovations from those which do not; and (2) the factors that determine whether innovation will be a carefully thought-out and discriminating process, rather than a process primarily influenced by…

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a new federal agency established in August 1972 within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, occupies a parallel position to the Office of Education. The Administration and the Congress believe that a sustained, systematic investment in research, development, testing, and diffusion will…

A compilation is made of reports from a conference dealing with workable administrative practices which provide for individual differences. The nature of individual differences as they operate in reading instruction is defined, and various dimensions, such as growth ages, sex differences, intelligence, cognitive abilities and styles, are discussed…

The articles presented here reveal the current status of community college governance. Topics discussed are: three models of college governance and their interrelationships; participatory governance in Canada; preparing student, faculty, and administrative leaders to understand basic institutional and individual needs and to operative in…

The first of a series, this report describes a 10-year followup study of a sample of 44 graduates of the Sloan School of Management, analyzing the interaction of personal values and career events in the lives of managers in organizations. All 44 participants were located, interviewed, and given the same attitude surveys as in the early 1960's.…

The conference program included four alternative schools which are really unique in that each of the four schools operates with the expressed approval of the board of education or school committee in its particular community and each receives some portion of its support, both financial and moral, from the same board of education or school…