This publication provides a comprehensive inventory of initiatives undertaken by European institutions and international organizations to assist the transformation of higher education and research in East Central Europe. Section 1 contains five papers, each highlighting one of five institutions that have developed innovative approaches to address…

This collection of panel proceedings is divided into five sections each of which is devoted to one panel. Panel 1 focused on mobilization, people's participation, and decentralization for "Education For All (EFA)." Panel 2 was devoted to external and internal financial resources for EFA (Government of India). Panel 3 was on girls' and…

This proceedings document summarizes a conference on university cooperation in the Pacific Basin region. An opening section details the impetus for holding the conference and its organization. Further sections describe issues examined in each of the discussion sessions. The opening discussion session focused on a call to international concerns,…

This paper describes the importance of the CIVITAS@Prague meeting in June 1995. The conference provided a much-needed look at the role of education in the future of world peace. This international conference of educators is likely to affect world history in the obvious ways that international meetings of diplomatic, military, or financial leaders…

This report lists and briefly describes 286 grants and appropriations, totaling $45 million, made by the Carnegie Corporation during the 1990-91 year for purposes that were broadly educational in nature. Financial support was concentrated in three areas. The first, the education and healthy development of children and youth, included grants…

This document is the final report of a Regional Consultation Meeting (RCM) on the Asia Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID), a mechanism developed by UNESCO to bring about regional cooperation in education in Asia and the Pacific. This RCM was attended by 55 participants, resource persons, and observers from…

In this introductory essay to the Carnegie Corporation's 1993 report, David A. Hamburg urges nations, during this time of increased ethnic violence, to cooperate in developing effective international systems of nonviolent conflict resolution. Promoting genuinely free civil societies within a democratic framework will resolve the current epidemic…

This publication presents the text of a speech by the president of Cornell University on the future of American universities. The speech is preceded by a brief preface describing the origin and history of the David Dodds Henry lecture series, and by the original introduction to the speaker delivered by president Stanley O. Ikenberry of the…

This paper assesses the potential impact on the New York State economy, industries, and regions of the recently implemented Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Canadian trade and investment have had significant impacts on the economies of the United States and New York state. An analysis of the potential impact of the FTA on New York state,…

The large scale movements of refugees in many areas of the world are having dramatic impacts on indigenous cultures, languages, and literacies. Both anecdotal evidence and research suggest that the experience of uprooting and displacement creates an increased demand for literacy, new forms of literate expression, and more multilingual…

Institutions of higher education in the United States are making use of educational communication networks, such as the National Science Foundation's INTERNET system, to enhance research and learning. Such information networks are used to exchange information electronically, and exist not only in the United States, but also in other countries.…

Translated from its original German because of the great interest in mass deacidification in the United States, this report summarizes a substantial study of deacidification techniques conducted for the West German Library by the Battelle Institute. It begins with a summary of the findings of the study, which is followed by discussions of: (1) The…

The multiplicity of groups concerned with education for peace and international solidarity makes it difficult to reconstruct the processes and activities aimed at international solidarity. The motives for this type of education rise from a growing sensibility shown by the Italian public toward international understanding and world-wide problems…

This document reports on a regional workshop designed to examine ways that relevancy in participant training can be enhanced in the Consortium for International Development and related institutions, and to develop campus-oriented strategies to implement these methods. Papers, discussions, and work group reports are arranged under the following…

An introduction lists the council members and observers present at the meeting, and a summary is provided of the following meeting business: (1) opening of the session by the director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow; (2) election of the bureau; (3) adoption of the agenda; (4) examination of the General Information Programme's current activities in…