Papers are presented from a conference of the International Association of Universities concerning the expansion of higher education. The contents are as follows: Foreword by J. Baugniet, International Association of Universities; "The Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil," by Rev. A. Alonso, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de…

The speech communicaton department at the University of Iowa attempts to work cooperatively with other departments, both to add strength to its own programs and to support the work of the other departments. It has avoided duplicating courses, instead permitting its students to fulfill departmental requirements by taking courses in other…

The Arapahoe Regional Library District and the Sheridan School District, in Colorado, cooperated in developing a library to serve both high school students and the general community. Initially funded by a Library Services and Construction Act grant, this cooperative venture succeeded because of the intense preplanning done by school and library…

The Collaboration Model Project Council, at the University of Florida, represents an attempt to establish interinstitutional collaboration among (1) a university and two community colleges, (2) three county public school systems, (3) the teachers' associations of three counties, (4) community parents and citizens of three counties, and (5) college…

This document presents a plan for a new district-wide college, the New Dimensions College, which would incorporate a wide range of external, nontraditional programs, moving such concepts out of the realm of experimentation and into the realm of active application. The total approach presented here would have the entire Los Angeles Community…

The Pennsylvania Task Force on Two-Year Postsecondary Education, whose members represented the public at large and all segments of postsecondary education, was commissioned to recommend a rationale for the orderly development of two-year programs to meet the needs of Commonwealth residents; to identify the most effective means of providing…

In December 1973, the Arlie House Conference on College Transfers recommended the establishment of an Articulation Counseling Office (ACO) at each institution offering the junior and senior years of college. The ACO acts as a liaison between junior and senior educational institutions in an effort to make the articulation process easier for the…

Supplement I of Making the Transition, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission's Report to the 1975 Minnesota Legislature describes the state and federal progams administered by the Commission and it provides extensive historical data on the level of activity in the programs since their inception. The Commission's recommendations for state…

Many of the nation's youth believe that the country's colleges and universities are insensitive and even hostile to their demands for an end to racism, militarism violence and poverty, and to their insistence on relevant curricula. If educational paralysis and alienation of this nation's most talented youth is to be avoided, many of our…

The essential purpose of this document is to describe the organization and operation of the Central Minnesota Teacher Education Council (CMTEC) and several programs which it has developed in order to improve teacher education, to pool the resources and ideas of 35 school districts in central Minnesota, and to enhance college-school communication.…

The underlying assumption of this paper is that the constant flow of information into all levels of education is a key to efforts to improve education, in general, and school personnel preparation programs, in particular. Its purpose is to delineate some of the issues and alternatives in meeting idea and information needs required for effective…

The program, designed to give the driver-training pupil a semester of 50 hours of instruction, involves four instructional phases, one of them optional to give flexibility to fit the varying needs of different school systems: Phase 1--the classroom phase, with 30 instructional hours devoted to 30 specific events, staggered at each school…

Proposed in the Michigan legislature is the establishment of a new institution to be known as Wolverine State College: an institution without a campus or principal location. The proposed legislation articulates three distinct state policy objectives: (1) Under the umbrella of a single institution, the development of a meaningful alternative for…

A 16-month demonstration project is implementing the Time Shared, Interactive, Computer Controlled Information Television (TICCIT) system in two community colleges. Participating are the MITRE Corporation, Brigham Young University (BYU), Educational Testing Service (ETS), Phoenix College of the Maricopa, Arizona County Community College District,…

The Lister Hill Experimental Computer Assisted Instruction Network has existed since July 1972. It has connected three university data bases to as many as 80 user institutions. The paper presents a history of the network, compares computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with information storage and retrieval, and summarizes the uses made of the CAI…