The important features of 10 college and university plans for information processing activities are highlighted. About half have decided which strategy will be followed and have determined the broad outline of implementation. The remaining organizations are still creating strategies. Many concepts will require large amounts of financial and human…

Details are provided of the development of a new library at Clarkson College. It was seen from the start that the new center needed to be viewed as the hub of a campus-wide system to provide integrated informational support for instructional, research, and administrative activities of the entire college. (MP)

Reviews research on the characteristics of the dropout (relationships, socioeconomic status, attitudes, behavior, school performance); the economic and social costs of dropping out; and current efforts for dropout assistance or dropout prevention. (SJL)

Explains how an apparel and textile exhibition can benefit the institution that underwrites the project, the department that sponsors it, the community, and the apparel design teacher (through the chance for professional recognition). Methods for planning such an exhibition are given. (CT)

Holds that institutional abuse of children is best prevented by designing programs according to acceptable standards rather than by investigating individual cases. Uses guidelines published in the new "Guidebook on Residential Child Care" to describe prevention theory, staffing and supervision procedures, involvement of outside community members,…

Conducted a management and organization development program in eight mental health agencies. Describes the stages and activities of this 18-month effort and the results of its evaluation. There were significant, positive results for almost all the participating management teams as well as for their organizations. (Author)

Discusses the problems of hiring substitutes and Ellington High School's (Connecticut) plan to deal with the problem: relieve teachers of supervisory duties, assign them to resource rooms organized around a particular academic discipline, and utilize these teachers as substitutes in their area of discipline when the need arises. (LC)

Describes the individualized audiovisual approach to teaching beginning accounting at a Wisconsin technical college. Discusses how it began as a remedial lab, its theories of individualized instruction, how the pilot project worked, and why this method is used. (CT)

Investigates the need for teacher education activities which could be made available to part-time instructors of adult vocational education programs. Also explores what the format and content of such a program should be. (CT)

It is noted there are few reported studies on programs that focus on parents and their middle-school children learning science together. Details of a zoo course are provided as well as data from a survey designed to find out what other courses could be taught in a similar manner. (MP)

Analyzes the organization and components of the teaching assistant apprenticeship program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Explains the administrative route that was travelled in developing the program for English teaching assistants and the reasons why administrative support is essential to the success of such a training…

Describes a project with two aims: (1) to develop, with the help of practicing teachers, strategies and ideas that would be of benefit to young socially handicapped children, and (2) to evaluate these strategies in a controlled environment. (CT)

There are four elements which the author has found to be essential for success when designing and conducting staff development programs: awareness, application, implementation, and maintenance. Each of these elements is discussed in detail, followed by the warning that the four-phase model requires school board commitment to insure its success.…

The author describes the special-admissions program challenged in the Bakke litigation and the Supreme Court's reaction to it. He examines the desirability of an affirmative-action component in an enlightened admissions program; and offers two models of special-admissions programs that would meet the requirements of the Bakke decision. (CT)

The ideal learning center is, in essence, a living definition of competency-based education. Such a center has the capability of meeting the diverse needs of adult school students while at the same time raising the coping skills or competencies of its participants on an individualized basis. (Author)