Advanced Education and Technology's mission is to lead the development of a knowledge-driven future through a dynamic and integrated advanced learning and innovation system. Its core businesses are to: (1) provide strategic leadership for Campus Alberta and Alberta Innovates; and (2) engage learners, industry and the community in learning…

This dissertation is an examination of the state of the liberal arts curriculum in community colleges in three geographic regions of the United States. From a constructivist paradigm and using globalization theory as a theoretical framework, this multiple case study examined faculty work life and administrative processes related to curriculum…

The Departments of Labor and Higher Education, working in close collaboration with the constituent units of public higher education, present this comprehensive report on the employment of graduates of public colleges and universities. This report summarizes the employment and compensation experience of students who graduated from the State's 18…

This article argues that understandings of work learning within human resource development (HRD) theory can be fruitfully enriched by more fully incorporating practice-based perspectives. Three contemporary theories that analyze learning as a relation of individuals with and/or in activity are discussed: the participational perspective of situated…

An edited version of an address to the Maryland Library Association at Annapolis, November 8, 1968.

Contracts and grants sponsored under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, and active in fiscal year 1963 are described. Included is research on automation, mobility, manpower development and utilization, manpower requirements and resources, effect of family on unemployment, and a research information and communication conference. A…

This bibliography is intended as a reference on manpower planning, at the national, industry, or company level. Certain recurring themes guided the selection of documents in this survey: (1) The main objective of macroeconomic planning is the guidance of changing unemployment patterns towards desired goals, (2) Manpower planning should be closely…

This meeting investigated the involvement of international organizations in rehabilitation and the potential that exists for increased participation. Experts from the U.S. Government looked at the operations of the United Nations, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the International Labor…

The document is a cumulative index of 850 publications issued by the Manpower Administration for the period January 1969 through June 1973. Chapters and major subdivisions of the "Manpower Reports of the President" and all articles in "Manpower" magazine are indexed separately. Items are arranged in 54 subject categories. (MS)

The overall object of this report is to analyze requirements for development, dissemination, and evaluation of education research personnel; formulate and evaluate alternatives for meeting the requirements; design a comprehensive program involving new patterns for training and upgrading DD&E personnel; and implement and evaluate such a program.…

This study describes the development and design for pretesting survey instruments required for the development of programs sampling the supply and demand for educational research, development, diffusion, and evaluation personnel. The major areas of concern include: 1) the determination of number, distribution by type, and location of educational…

This study presents a design for a biennial survey which would provide a nation-wide, in-depth sampling of supply and demand for educational research, development, diffusion, and evaluation personnel. An extensive preliminary study and analysis led to recommendations for a more modest initial survey focusing on the demand for three priority…

This guide lists 144 Federal programs through which health manpower training was supported in fiscal year 1970. Each listing provides: (1) organization, (2) legislation, (3) program, (4) type of aid, (5) level of education, (6) institutions or individuals supported, and (7) funding. (BH)