The Committee which prepared this report has surveyed the present approaches of teaching reading and communication skills in the Detroit, Michigan schools. The staff has examined previous studies of the Detroit Public Schools. The staff has conducted computer searches, reviewed relevant literature, consulted with nationally known reading…

In 1973, the Rhode Island Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights initiated a comprehensive project to review equal employment opportunity (EEO) in State and selected local government bodies in Rhode Island. In its project, the Advisory Committee examined employment practices and affirmative action efforts to recruit, hire, and…

The student manual contains eight sessions designed to help secretarial students improve their office management skills, through an analysis of their individual leadership abilities. The sessions are: (1) what it takes to succeed in a secretarial position, focusing on the characteristics of a good leader; (2) how to develop a sensible attitude…

Three curriculum materials which draw upon the social disciplines are examined to understand the manner in which individual responsibility and authority are defined. The three include American Political Behavior, Holt Secondary Social Studies Curriculum, and Investigating Man's World. Curriculum content in each is found to contain dispositions…

Individualized education works well for a particular type of student and faculty member. If you go beyond this type of student and faculty member, you run head-on into serious administrative and planning problems. In short, students are unsure and often confused about their role in individualized education. It seems that (1) students need thorough…

To prepare for the possibility of further campus unrest and disorders, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) held a series of regional seminars in the summer of 1970. About 70 presidents and other administrators attended each of the seminars. Their major concern was not the repression of student dissent but finding…

The 1972 edition of the Troy State University's Faculty Handbook outlines the procedures, policies and regulations regarding the administrative organization of the university; the faculty committees; personnel policies; fiscal policies and business procedures; academic procedures; special aids to teaching and research; student affairs services;…

Professional personnel policies for the state colleges in Colorado are outlined in this June 15, 1974 handbook. Specific regulations are presented with regard to: conditions of employment determined by law; endorsement of academic freedom; professional conduct; duties and responsibilities of the president; faculty rank; tenure; salary and…

The current faculty handbook for the University of South Carolina contains information regarding the administrative organization; the faculty organization; regulations and policies regarding personnel including affirmative action, appointments, tenure, leaves, academic freedom, classroom procedures, and normal work schedule and responsibility;…

The greatest single matter of concern before policy boards, officers, and administrators is seen as the question of financing the ongoing operation of the college, the university, or the system of higher education. Unionization, affirmative action, student recruitment, tenure, educational competition, changing modes of instruction all have…

The crucial elements of control which have developed in the educational systems of the U.S. are: (1) the collective social power of government to require participation in formal education and to stipulate the conditions of that participation (i.e., legal control); (2) the authority to make and the power to enforce decisions that appropriate…

This paper examines how potential conflicts produced by ethical issues such as confidence and confidentiality can affect the research methodology of educational research and evaluation projects. Despite the differences in site selection, clientele, and relationship to treatment, both evaluators and researchers must make adjustments in method to…

This chapter summarizes recent state supreme court and federal court decisions related to higher education. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1975 and reported in the General Digest as of March 1976. In his discussion, the author attempts to integrate related cases and to illuminate any unifying legal principles…

An aspect of the Lansing, Michigan desegregation process that is examined in this paper is the school elections which have been held since 1969. The purpose of this examination is to determine what, if any, reliable voting patterns can be found in the Lansing community relative to the desegregation process. The assumption underlying this analysis…

Agreement was made on the first day of June 1974 by and between the Polytechnic Institute of New York and the American Association of University Professors-Polytechnic Chapter. The administration recognizes the AAUP as the exclusive representative of the employees in the bargaining unit. (Author)