The purpose of the Aerospace-Aviation Education Task Force was to study the problems and present recommendations for space and aviation education in California. Educational trends and the increasing rate of dropout occurrence reveal a need to introduce changes in the education and training of students. Many career opportunities exist in the field…

The transcript of a panel discussion and an essay on public access to and control of society's information resources are presented. It is contended that the electronic Media--including radio, television, and communication satellites--are controlled by a select group of individuals and corporations and that they are not meeting the public interest.…

The first year's activities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Research Program on Communication Policy are described. Among the projects undertaken were studies of: (1) land mobile radio systems, (2) direct satellite broadcasting in foreign countries, (3) communications regulation policy, (4) international data communication, and…

An economic analysis of television programing was conducted focusing on the public welfare implications of alternative market structures and policies in the broadcasting industry. Welfare was measured by the sum of producer's and consumer's surplus. It was demonstrated that any of the private market systems considered contain biases against…

Focusing on Texas nonmetropolitan areas, this study described recent population changes, identified probable causes of change, examined demographic and economic correlates and the likelihood of continued trends. Population changes from 1960 to 1970 in 164 nonmetropolitan incorporated (NMI) places with a population between 2,500 and 25,000 were…

There is no aerospace industry in Turkey, and the level of operational activity is low even though the potential for the exploitation of aviation is high. The government of Turkey hopes to establish an aircraft factory in conjunction with a foreign contractor and is aware of the need for aerospace engineering education. This paper describes the…

In order to identify some basic types of information concerning industrial development which might be useful to decision-makers at the local level, an opinion survey was conducted in five bordering nonmetropolitan Pennsylvania counties. A 13-item questionnaire was mailed to 222 local organizations, categorized by response rate as follows: (1)…

Unemployment of those aged 16 to 23 is due largely to inadequate job preparation. Most educators have little exposure to the world of work outside of education, and may unknowingly provide incorrect, restrictive or out-of-date information to students. This Educators-in-Industry Handbook is designed to provide G.E. plant representatives with…

Based on papers and recorded discussions of training experts at the UNESCO Seminar on Instructional Training Techniques for Broadcasters, communication training is examined as the planned process of inducing those attitudes and transmitting those skills necessary for the effective mass movement of ideas, the sharing of information, and the…

To explore the demographic, professional and ideational dimensions of educational-journal editors and to investigate publishing processes in general, questionnaires were sent to a list of journal editors and in-depth interviews were held with eight editors, two each from research, scholarly, professional, and association publications.…

Various experts in education, government, industry, and labor contributed to the sixth annual industrial relations symposium (sponsored by the graduate program at St. Francis College) which focused on career education as its basic theme. Participants from a seven-State area also represented the four areas. Symposium proceedings consisted of seven…

By employing southern strategies and preconceptions to develop the north, southern Canadians have complicated northern Canadian development problems. Assuming that the only recognizable work is "paid" work and that welfare recipients do not want to work, southern Canadians have failed to recognize the inherent relationship between…

H. G. Wells pointed out that "human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." In the next two decades we must rely even more on education, training, human resource development, and effective counseling to keep our commune of creatures working together with harmony and purpose. However, if counselors are going to be…

The title of this volume was the theme of the sixth annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities, held in December 1956. Authors of the eleven reports on successful college and adult reading programs focused on various aspects of the programs, including academic performance, program evaluation, faculty, public…

While there is certainly an abundance of excellent material concerning the world's press today, since World War II there has been an absence of any type of systematic synthesis of this information which might be used as a text or reference book by persons interested in the broad aspects of international communication. This book is intended to…