In the "Higher Education Opportunity Act" of 2008, Congress charged the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance with conducting a review and analysis of regulations affecting higher education to determine the extent to which regulations are overly burdensome and need to be streamlined, improved, or eliminated. Specifically, Congress…

We now have ample evidence that public policies diffuse across the American states; that is, policy adoption is due at least in part to the emulation of policies enacted in nearby states. But, policy adoption is the result of a complex process, a process that often takes years and sometimes decades to complete. According to the "stage"…

At the Community College Futures Assembly, 3 critical discussion groups, each organized by an area of focus, conceptualized "New Rules" guiding the operation of community colleges. Utilizing 55 "New Rules for Business" provided by the keynote speaker Mark N. Vamos, each group identified 2-3 New Rules relevant to community college leadership in the…

At the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, the EERJ Roundtable focused upon the relationships between information, research and intervention. These relationships could be understood as a circular flow of decontextualising and recontextualising terms, concepts or "knowledge" according to the respective…

Ethical standards for counselor training require remediation of students with professional performance deficiencies. However, standards fail to specify the type or extent of remediation necessary to safeguard students' legal rights or justify dismissal if remediation is unsuccessful. Critical assessment of remedial practices in counselor…

This paper addresses the relationship between the First Amendment, monopoly of transmission media, and vertical integration of transmission and content provision. A survey of some of the incentives a profit-maximizing transmission monopolist may have with respect to content is followed by a discussion of how vertical integration affects those…

The driving force in federal licensing has been the combined political interests of legislators desirous of obtaining valuable prerogatives over the assignment of frequencies; incumbent broadcasters, ever vigilant in restricting new entry into broadcasting; and "public interest" lobbyists, whose self-interests lay in politicizing the…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has long had rules that prohibit anyone from owning more than one television station in any given location. Two of the stated purposes behind the FCC's anti-monopoly rules are to foster diversity of programming for the sake of First Amendment interests, and to promote programming among media outlets in…

The politically relevant behavior of scientists in the formulation of public policy by the United States government from 1945-68 is studied. The following types of policy issues are treated: science, space, weather, weapons, deterrence and defense, health, fiscal and monetary, pollution, conservation, antitrust, transportation safety, trade and…

Evaluation research can be more effective if policy formation is included in its scope. The areas discussed in this article deal specifically with organizational policy. The relationship between policy formation and evaluation research are examined and a framework for evaluating policy is presented. (DEP)

The purpose of this essay was to analyze the irony of the official federal Indian policy of termination, and the congressional and bureaucratic milieu from which it grew. (Author/RTS)

Originally, Congress approved only "qualitative" restrictions on immigration ensuring the good health and character of aliens entering the country. When the country moved from an agricultural to an industrialized society, Congress enacted "quantitative" restrictions to protect the nation's economy by limiting the number of aliens. Past and present…

The evolution and current position of post-Keynesian economic theory are examined. The theory is based on Keynes' exposition of effective demand in a monetary production economy determining the level of employment, rather than through supply and demand in the "real" and "monetary" sectors determining the level of real output.…

In comparing traditional parole release and objective parole criteria, the impact of prison rehabilitation programs on length of incarceration for adult male inmates was considered. Data did not support the creation of a new parole release policy. (SK)