This document presents the report of the fifth general confernce of the International Association of Universities (IAU), held in Montreal, Canada, August 30-September 5, 1970. Chapter one presents the inaugural proceedings. Chapter two discusses international university cooperation in relation to university teachers, students, study programs,…

The conference summarized in this monograph grew out of two expressed concerns of health care personnel educators: their desire for more information about future trends in health care delivery, and their desire for better articulation of the various levels of programs preparing health related personnel. Papers presented include these: Future…

For a number of years college and university administrators, government officials, and legislators, both state and federal, have striven to achieve better interinstitutional cooperation and coordination in higher education. This report treats the topic of cooperation and coordination by answering the following questions: (1) How can the state of…

The annual report of the Alabama Consortium for the Development of Higher Education (ACDHE) is presented in relation to its member institutions and ACDHE committees. The member institutions, including Alabama A&M University, Huntingdon College, Judson College Miles College, Stillman College, the University of Alabama, and the University of…

The major purpose of the center has been to improve the quality of instruction in the participating schools by providing in-service training to teachers in the use of instructional materials and equipment. At the onset, four global objectives were established to a) integrate more media (i.e., filmstrips, books, slides) into the teaching…

These guidelines and standards supersede those which have been in effect since 1961. They provide for three types of certificates: teacher certificate, administrator certificate, and educational staff associate certificate. For each certificate type there are three levels: preparatory, initial, and continuing. The guidelines provide for colleges,…

The state education department is proposing a set of process standards to be followed in developing trial projects in teacher education which will lead to competency-based certification. Standard I specifies that representatives of public schools, higher education institutions, teachers, and teacher education students must be included in planning,…

The Fall, 1972 conference of EDUCOM focused on problems, potentials, and current activities related to the development of interinstitutional cooperation through computer networking. In these proceedings, a number of representative networking attempts were presented, discipline-oriented workshops discussed possibilities in a number of different…

In 1971 the registrar of the University of Guelph was authorized to assess possible need for and to design an application center for admission to Ontario universities. The study had as its terms of reference the following: (1) to analyze the needs of the universities, the students, and the Department of University Affairs in respect of…

The kinds of impact a consortium might have on the operations of its member institutions are presented following an overview of the consortium's challenge to institutional autonomy. Ten attitudinal forms of consortium impact challenging autonomy include: (1) the rest are going ahead so do it anyway, (2) infiltration and multiple loyalities of…

This speech reviews past articulation efforts on the national level, comments on present articulation efforts, and looks ahead to new forces which will probably affect articulation. Past and present efforts discussed included the Knoell-Medsker study, which generated articulation guidelines, Kintzer's "Nationwide Pilot Study on Articulation," and…

A variety of regional influences, including urban-suburban-rural factors, must be allowed to have an important bearing upon cooperative teacher education program design and implementation at the local level. One must take into account existing patterns of school-community-university relationships, the school system's relationships with its teacher…

Princeton University's Community College Internship Program trains graduate students for community college teaching positions through a combination of 12 introductory seminars and a semester of practical classroom experience. Seminar themes include: behaviorism as an educational issue, the use of audiovisual materials, and the variety within…

The Community Health Information Network, a cooperative library network established between a community hospital and six public libraries, is described. This model program provides health education and information services to patient/consumers and library services to health personnel through their public libraries. Funding, factors leading to the…

Urban colleges are in a favorable situation for cooperation--on mission-related activities like sharing faculty and students, on activities essential for operation, life computer use, and on activities growing out of the urban setting, including community problem-solving. (Author/LBH)