In response to a request from the New Mexico legislature, this report assesses the feasibility of establishing technical high schools in the state. The first part of the report relates the current need for technical education to the nation's and the state's rapidly changing technological base. In part two the author addresses the difficulties New…

If there is to be communication and mutual assistance between community colleges and universities, three myths about community colleges need to be dispelled: that they teach almost nothing but basic or remedial English, that no research is possible for those university people who study community college English programs or for community college…

This review of the problems encountered in the use of telecommunications for higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia points out that there is no agency or organization that has taken the lead in coordinating and facilitating the organized growth and development of television services with and among all institutions. Insufficient in-place…

This final Bulletin of the National Institute reviews the activities it has sponsored since June 1966. Major articles report the four Student/Beginning Teacher Conferences to evolve recommendations for new conceptual models of teacher education; the Conference on New Curriculum Materials and the Teaching of the Disadvantaged; the Professors in the…

Since the teaching force for the 1970s will be predominantly stable, the need of teacher education for the future is not preservice education but inservice. The primary responsibility for inservice education is with public school educators. But this is in no way a disclaimer that other agencies have responsibility. Traditional methods, such as a…

This paper begins by reviewing federal intervention in both education in general and in teacher education during the last ten years. Shifts in schools and education during this period are described including: (a) taking students and education more into the community, (b) a greater attention to career education, (c) the functioning of teaching as a…

This three-part report evaluates the progress of the Texas Center for the Improvement of Educational Systems (TCIES), and examines the nature and extent of collaboration at each of five Local Cooperative Teacher Education Centers (LCTECs) in Texas. Part 1 discusses the development and operation of the Texas Center from July 1971 through December…

This two-part monograph attempts to (a) define and describe the teacher center concept, and (b) expand existing informal communication exchanges among teacher centers and teaching colleagues in school districts and colleges of education. Information was elicited from 40 American teacher centers, as well as from people and projects interested in…

This report describes the most significant activities of the Dayton-Miami Valley Consortium during the period of September 1, 1967 - February 28, 1970. The purpose of the Consortium is to promote interinstitutional cooperation and thus improve planning, research, instruction, and administrative services. The activities of the Consortium fell in 2…

In an attempt to break down interinstitutional isolation, a group of biomedical librarians developed an interlibrary loan agreement with the specific goal of promoting better access to biomedical information for health care workers in the Metropolitan Detroit area. This is a report on the development of that agreement, which includes the…

This paper traces the origin and development of the British Columbia provincial adult education organization during 1953-62. A series of biannual conferences for those interested in adult education began in late 1954. A more formal structure, the British Columbia Adult Education Council, was created in 1957 and continued until 1962, when it was…

This study explored methods of improving the educational research capabilities of six institutions of higher education in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. A priori it was felt that interinstitutional cooperation would result in a more effective use of limited research resources. After six conferences, a cooperative program was drawn up…

Presently there are approximately 70 active formal higher educational consortia in the U. S. along with numerous other instances of voluntary academic cooperation. However, at a time in which cooperative efforts continue to expand, the benefits of these same efforts are being examined and questioned seriously by educators. The Danforth Conference…

Six papers are presented concerning the trends and issues in interinstitutional cooperation. Topics cover national cooperative trends, case study in starting a consortium; consortia and institutional change, library networks and what to expect, higher education management, financing higher education in Pennsylvania, and making more states more…

The program for the semiannual Cooperative Program Seminar, held October 9-10, 1973, in Washington, D.C. is presented in this document. At this seminar plans were made to broaden the program focus from just consortium concerns to include the full range of interests in systems of interdependence in postsecondary education. These proceedings, to the…