This report is designed to provide an interpretive summary of 1969 state legislative actions in the West that affected higher education. After a regional summary, both brief and extended analyses are provided of legislation in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.…

The problem of the efficient allocation of State aid for libraries within a fixed budget constraint was studied. A management science (operations research) approach was utilized. Two basic models were developed: an allocation model to determine the amount of State aid to be received by each library system and a model that predicts library use as a…

This report explores Federal policy options regarding student, research, and institutional support in the environment of graduate education. Emphasis is placed on a brief history of Federal support for graduate education and research, pressures and problems facing graduate education, graduate student support, Federal policy toward academic…

The 109-item College Diagnostic Questionnaire (CDQ) was designed to assess student attitudes toward a variety of activities occurring before classes begin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The CDQ was administered to the 4,502 freshmen (58% of the total freshmen class) who attended the College Diagnostic Testing Session…

The concentration of disadvantaged people in the major cities of the United States requires new programs of the urban library. Libraries must actively intervene to provide information and referral services on the problems of daily living and should serve as cultural institutions, reflecting the various ethnic orientations to be found in the city.…

The 18 chapters of this book are grouped into three sections. In the first, Causes of Fianncial Crisis, the change in public education from financial security to crisis is explored as it related to the public community college. These two chapters are titled External Factors and Internal Practices. The second section, Sources of Revenue, includes…

Accounts of the workshops conducted during the morning of the second day of the symposium are contained in this volume. These focus on the economics and financing of cable television (CATV), public ownership of cable, community and local programing, and minority participation in CATV. Visual presentations dealing, respectively, with research…

This document is a comprehensive evaluation of the laws and methods of financing both public and private higher education in New York. Emphasis is placed on financing and governance. Major findings regarding the state of postsecondary education concern finance and capital, facilities, enrollments, access, financial aid, diversity, quality,…

In a speech given at the annual convention of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the Commissioner of Education discusses the need to establish educational technology as a resource to be used to effect significant and revolutionary improvement in existing forms of education. With television and other media, teachers can utilize…

In response to a mandate from the Congress (Public Law 91-230, Section 806), a study was conducted on the gifted and talented which consisted of five major activities: review of research, analysis of educational data bases and the development of a major data base, public hearings to interpret regional needs, studies of programs in representative…

In the Phase IV portion of the Study of the Need for Educational Manpower for Handicapped Children and Youth, motivational factors affecting special education manpower supply and the impact of PL 85-926 on the supply were evaluated in two studies to which separate questionnaires were developed: the Personnel Motivation Study and the University…

This paper argues that government agencies have traditionally been concerned with recording and reporting only the dimensions of the formal "Core" of educational activity--the sequential ladder ranging from kindergarten through graduate and professional schools. Missing is a similar recording of participation in the "Educational…

A national survey of instructional television (ITV) service was condicted by questionnaire in May, 1972. Some 1,331 ITV locations were surveyed and 356 responded (26.7%). The survey sought to answer a variety of questions pertaining to the overall status of ITV in the U.S. so that national policy makers could get some idea of the national…

This document is a study of teacher retirement systems of the United States. It also deals with the problems of improved management, particularly of how funds might be invested to increase benefits or reduce the required contributions. It sets up a hypothetically ideal pattern for the investment portfolio of typical State pension fund on the basis…

This manual represents a part of the work performed in the past two years in connection with Trenton's Project -- Building a Comprehensive Planning Capability with EPPBS -- funded through ESEA Title III. The "capability" refers to a set of concepts and procedures that will allow the Trenton Public Schools to raise the level of debate in…