This fourth annual report of the New Mexico State Commission on Postsecondary Education essentially describes activities in five areas. The finance and budget review section provides a profile of public colleges and universities; branch colleges; four-year private colleges and universities; as well as outlining the actual operating expenditures…

Guidelines that are designed to facilitate interinstitutional resource sharing are presented for trustees, legislators, business and lay leaders and educators based on a 1981 national conference. Attention is directed to the range of potential benefits of resource sharing, the structures and processes for achieving resource sharing, and the action…

Proceedings from a conference entitled "Women Moving Forward: Improving Florida's Economy through Leadership, Power and Influence" are presented. The 1979 statewide conference, which brought together leaders from industry, government, education, and the communities, was designed to promote the social and economic needs of women. Contents…

This overview of bilingual education ih Ohio includes profiles of bilingual programs in Youngstown, Toledo, Cleveland, and Athens. Current practices in these programs are considered with regard to funding, identification and assessment of students, instructional models, materials, the cultural component of instruction, parental involvement, and…

Divided into four sections, each containing a brief narrative and data tables, this report presents capital budget requests of the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) for fiscal year (FY) 1982, covering 50 colleges in 40 districts. Section I presents the ICCB recommended capital budget for FY 1982 in two categories. Category I lists in…

Background information is provided on a number of conditions affecting Ontario's community colleges. The first section, dealing with financial issues, considers the college environment in the 1980s; examines the provincial government's perspective on priorities, the allocation process, government funding, and budgetary expenditures and trends; and…

Comprehensive vocational assessment needs to become an integral part of vocational programming in secondary and postsecondary schools, since it is crucial in developing appropriate individualized education plans for students with special needs. A prime focus for vocational assessment should be entrance into vocational education courses. It should…

A study to evaluate Career Guidance Centers (CGCs) in Illinois resulted in both objective evaluation and in the provision of technical assistance for the regional centers. An epiphenomenon of the study activity was the development of a model for the evaluation of pilot site (exemplary) projects with the potential of its being transported to…

Principles for state planning for postsecondary education are considered, and three hypothetical case studies are presented for discussion purposes. The first and basic principle is the need for a clear and categorical mandate for state planning. A second principle is to develop full knowledge of the authority and responsibilities for…

Responses to a questionnaire circulated to all state guarantee agencies for the federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL) are reported. Information is reported, in charts and tables, on: dates the states signed GSL agreements with the Office of Education; states that guaranteed loans before GSL began in 1966; agency organizational types;…

During 1977-78 the refinement of a comprehensive investment model for higher education institutions in Michigan involved data collection and analysis. The best available data were solicited from a number of states and individual institutions for the refinement of the staffing ratios and costs of instruction in the model. Data were provided by 15…

Summary budget data are presented for Colorado's Community College Division and the state's two-year colleges. After an introductory section, the goals and objectives of the community college section are outlined in terms of student access, quality of instruction, response to community needs, and accountability; and emerging issues, such as…

The responses of state colleges and universities to substantial reductions in their appropriations are examined in a one-year study that encompasses experience with fiscal stringency in about a dozen states, primarily in five states. Some key concepts such as "retrenchment,""time," and the differences in statewide organizations…

In this third report the Task Force focuses on the whole child in an attempt to help all agencies--responsible for any services to migrants--improve the total range of services needed by migrant farmworkers and fishers, and thus improve the migrant child's chances for a basic education. The recommendations explore two topics new to the Task Force…

In 1978 the New York State Board of Regents initiated action to establish statewide high school graduation standards for reading comprehension. The process began by measuring the readability levels of materials used in core courses and materials that adults normally read (newspapers, news magazines, and feature magazines). To do this,…