The Environmental Quality Ad Hoc Committee has prepared this report for the Governor's Natural Resources Council (Nevada). It is a compilation of available factual data focusing attention on needed statutory and administrative changes to preserve Nevada's environmental heritage and from which recommendations for future budgetary and legislative…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of selected functions of state advisory councils on vocational-technical education and the probability of accomplishing these functions with select staffing patterns and administrative organizations. Questionnaire data collected from state directors of vocational education and…

Article described the responsibilities and contributions of the Committee of Ten, charged by the NEA to seek some standardization and uniformity of college entrance requirements in the late 1890s. (Author/RK)

Reported on is a study which administered the Attitudes towards Career Education Inventory to members of State advisory counsils on vocational education, finding them generally favorable but minimally interested. The inventory and a memorandum of agreement between the Department of Labor and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare are…

Examines the process of selecting a new college president from the perspective of the chairman of the search committee. (IRT)

From 1970 until 1974, the Seattle Community College District was directed by a four-member executive committee, rather than by one chief executive officer. The history of this period is recounted, and advantages and disadvantages of the management system are identified. In sum, the system is satisfactory only in the short-run. (NHM)

Using the results of a survey of members of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) (See related article SE 521 919), factor analysis was used to identify six major areas of research priorities. (CP)

A critical analysis is made of selected portions of an ALA committee document on national information policy. The authors state that the "...document does not provide a conceptual foundation for anything. It is arrant nonsense and deserves to be repudiated as quickly and emphatically as possible." (JPF)

Broad objectives and a Five-Year Plan are given for the Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. (MN)

The central agency within the Federal Government for developing, testing, and operating various urban and rural programs to reduce poverty, the Community Service Administration is currently planning an "Indian Desk" which will include two permanent positions; will be located within the Program Development Office; and will be advised by…

Describes the cooperative relationship between the Rockford, Illinois, advisory council and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) staff for Winnebago and Boone Counties and credits this cooperation and community input with CETA's success. (MF)

Rapid changes in our industrial system require a large body of skilled workers who are able to carry out technical specifications and who can supervise less skilled members of the work force. This article discusses modern apprenticeship programs, certificates of completion, joint apprenticeship committees, basic standards for apprenticeship, and…

Describes the formation of a 15-member student advisory committee for the mass communications department at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. (KS)

Reports on a project undertaken by members of the Finnish Paperworkers' Union to record the history of their union. Members organized themselves into 40 study circles, with each circle tackling a different aspect of the history. Support was provided by the union historian. (CH)