In the fall of 1973, public, school, and college librarians in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area formed the Lowell Area Council on Interlibrary Networks (LACOIN). With a grant from the Library Services and Construction Act, Title III, LACOIN initiated library-sponsored public affairs radio broadcasting for its community. Utilizing the Lowell…

Contractual agreements as a means of attracting new students and funds for colleges and universities are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the possible groups an institution may look to for contractual agreements, i.e., the state, other institutions of higher education, industry, and various other organizations. Advantages and problem areas of…

This slide-tape presentation, with accompanying manuscript, describes the physical make-up and the functions of a teacher education center. According to the presentation, a teacher education center is a cluster of two or three geographically contiguous elementary or secondary schools. It is administered by a coordinator who is selected jointly by…

This reprint from "American Education" contains five articles on the future of computers in education. The first article presents the advantages of using centrally operated facilities in school districts; the advantages of offering courses in computer technology to high school students; and some of the capabilities of computers for…

The essential goal of the Maclay On-Site Training Project is "to develop a method for training teachers who will be effective with the educationally disadvantaged." Although this final report summarizes the objectives and design of the overall project and its five components, its emphasis is on research developments related to ways of evaluating…

This document proposes that an Institute of Health Sciences be established as a new unit of the City University of New York (CUNY) within the framework of Hunter College in cooperation with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The Institute's bachelors and masters programs would prepare professionals to work with physicians on health teams. The…

The Institute of International Education estimates that the number of foreign students in the US, which was 6,500 in the 1921-1922 academic year, exceeded 121,000 between 1968 and 1969. The data in this report were collected during 4 surveys that focused on the volume of educational exchange between the US and the rest of the world. The data on…

This booklet contains selected papers from three conferences which had common objectives: to enable federal, state, and local officials to study the complexity of legal, social, economic, and psychological constraints on youth as well as the agencies created by these laws; to review the critical factors in urbanization, their relation to…

This document is a report on the first year of the AACTE-Job Corps Student Teaching Project. A distinct characteristic of the project, developed in response to the increasing national concern for the preparation of teachers for disadvantaged youth, was its utilization of a non-public school setting as a site for part of the regular student…

Decisions involving formats, methods, standards and priorities employed in the development of the Iowa State plan for administering the details of the Higher Education Act of 1963 are described. Forms used for project funds requests, summary data for institution applications and comparative figures with other states are included. (HH)

The commission summarizes its activities in the five areas of construction grants, equipment grants, scholarships, guaranteed student loans, and a survey of physical facilities. The commission administers the federal construction and equipment grants awarded under the Higher Education Facilities Acts of 1963 and 1965. Summaries include grants…

Policies formulated for the seven state and nine private institutions of higher education in South Dakota are outlined in their separate phases of system development, data gathering, and data analysis. This scheme was developed to facilitate data reporting in federal grant applications. Areas of research include the functions, administration, and…

The Association for Graduate Education and Research in North Texas (TAGER), interconnects nine colleges and universities over a 2,000 square mile area. Approximately 100,000 post-secondary students and about 5,000 faculty members use on-campus studio classrooms offering credit courses and other academic programs desired by member institutions. The…

Four components comprise the elementary education program offered at Illinois State University in cooperation with the Peoria Public School System. Three components familiarize the student with curricula in arts, communication, and the natural and social sciences. The fourth segment of the program is a full-semester clinical experience at the…

A guide for the management of computer services in Ohio universities is given to enable university administrators to better plan the initiation and development of computer services and to provide criteria to measure the adequacy of their present services. The information contained is applicable to all universities and emphasizes the variety of…