A proposed teacher education program would provide more diversified student teacher training through the cooperation of the ten members of the College Center of the Finger Lakes and the school districts of the Southern Tier of New York State. The program has three major objectives: 1) to increase the utilization of objective evaluation techniques…

The first half of this report is a general program guide for operating summer youth employment programs. The organization and administration outline established in the guide is based upon experience gained in previous programs in St. Louis, New Haven, and Phoenix. The second half of the report contains a summary of these programs, which were…

The purpose of this report is to help the people and governments of Canada face the financial problems of university development over the next decade. The report deals with: (1) enrollment projections of Canada's universities and colleges; (2) projection of operating expenditures; (3) projection of capital expenditures; (4) estimated total…

Perceptual motor activities for physically handicapped children are presented in the areas of fine and gross motor skills. Also detailed are activities to develop body image, visual motor skills, and tactile and auditory perception. (JD)

The Colorado Commission on Higher Education was created in 1965 to help provide a unified and long-range view of higher education in the state and help devise a structure of higher education that would be responsive to a changing educational system, social needs and pressures. This report, which reviews the history and functions of the Commission,…

The Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System was established to coordinate higher education in the state and to eliminate existing duplication in programs. This blueprint was developed by the Board to make room for increasing numbers of college students and to provide a rising level of educational quality by the most effective…

This analysis of the control and coordination of higher education programs involves those colleges and universities in Virginia that operate under direct state control. Chapter I explains why the report deals only with external controls rather than with the internal organization and structure of the institutions discussed. Chapter II presents…

This document provides an annotation of the articulation agreement between the State Universities and the Public Community Junior Colleges of Florida. Sections cover: general education, definition of associate of arts degree, responsibility for general education requirements, preprofessional course responsibility, admission to upper division…

This bibliography presents citations concerning the changing state responsibilities for planning and coordinating in postsecondary education. Forty-seven citations are presented alphabetically by title. ERIC numbers are provided at the end of citations where appropriate. (MJM)

The model of a cluster community college is described in this book. The chapters of the book are as follows: 1. Need for a New Organizational Model (Three Structural Anomalies, The Department: A Critical Analysis, The Department: A Status Study); 2. Dynamics for Change (Creative Tensions, Pre-Conditions Required for Planned Change); 3. Some…

A total of 48 8- to 14-week-old infants were presented with a non-contingently moving visual stimulus and the infants' visual attention was measured. Infants who exhibited decrements in attention to the non-contingent stimulus showed recovery in attention when the same stimulus was made to move contingent upon a motor response. Moreover, wisual…

To manage effectively the higher education enterprise is a complex matter. Part of the problem of managing complexity is the need for monitoring data in time series such that the on-going enterprise is viewed at comparable times in comparable terms. Part of the answer at the University of San Francisco is the development of time series data on…

This document is a report on the Houston Teacher Center Project. Section one describes the project's rationale and main objectives as they are cast against the broad cultural changes in today's society. It is stated that the purpose of the teacher center in Houston is to promote a systematic approach to change by involving a number of groups in a…

A simple device called a "wire labyrinth" was used in an experiment involving learning of a two-hand motor task. The Ss were asked, after completing each of 7 successive trails, to give their estimates of perceived (subjective) difficulty of the task. For this purpose, the psychophysical method of magnitude estimation was used. Time was…

The purposes of the proposed system are to provide a standard operating procedure for a systematic and effective handling of project-type study items as differentiated from informational-type items; to assign definite singular responsibility for projects; to suggest specific sequential steps to be taken in the preparation of the project report;…