Factors involved in conducting an effective search for a college or university president are analyzed. Emphasized are issues to be resolved with respect to defining the role of the board of trustees, outgoing president, consultant, and search committee. A series of recommendations are set forth that cover the entire search process beginning with…

The goals of planning for innovation and reform of American Indian schools should include a culturally based and child oriented curriculum. The curriculum design should be based on the assumptions that it will provide: (1) motivation and interest for the youth it serves; (2) children with the capacity to learn how to learn; (3) an individually…

The Chicano Mobile Institute's (CMI) goal for fiscal year (FY) 1973-74 was to: improve the quality and equality of education and to meet the needs of Chicano students in public and private institutions of higher learning throughout the participating states. Its objectives were to: (1) prepare personnel in higher education who are concerned with…

A second quarterly report describes activities of the Syracuse Educational Policy Research Center's two-year analysis of educational satellites and telecommunications. Visits to Rocky Mountain, Appalachian and Alaskan sites are described. Activities of other nations are reviewed and summarized. Preliminary staff work and analysis for the final…

Designed for those seeking information relative to Federal aid and educational opportunities now afforded the American Indian, this brief booklet describes the Indian Education Act of 1972 (Title IV Public Law 92-318, Education Amendments of 1972). The 4 major components of this Act provide for financial aid to: Part A--local and nonlocal…

A questionnaire was developed and administered to 200 present and past Chicano Advisory Committee (CAC) members, including Chicano and non-Chicano faculty, college administrators, and Chicano students, staff, and community members. Information was gathered on the role the CAC plays in policy-making at Pasadena City College (California).…

The Progress Report series is intended to convey to the public a sense of the steps Hampshire College has taken since its opening in September 1970. The reports represent progress on programs planned in specific areas of concern, such as this first one on employment by faculty contract. The progression of the steps illustrates the ongoing creation…

The purpose of the project was to publish a State guide for local directors of vocational education that would facilitate the establishment of general vocational education advisory committees in 115 of the 130 local school divisions in Virginia by 1980. Specific objectives were to: (1) develop and publish guidelines for organizing and operating…

The document provides the texts of the presentations given during the joint meeting of the National and State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education held in May, 1975. The agenda for the meeting and the resolution established in the meeting are included. The presentations focused on the challenges to vocational education as perceived by the…

The purpose of H.R. 2600, which is commonly referred to as the Comprehensive School Health Education Act, is to encourage the provision of comprehensive programs in elementary and secondary schools with respect to health education and health programs by establishing a system of grants for teacher training, pilot and demonstration projects, and the…

The involvement of students in educational decision-making serves to humanize and personalize the educational system and to carry out the philosophy of participatory management. In the Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools, high school students serve on a countywide student advisory council, and a high school student is selected to serve a…

The involvement of the community is absolutely essential in planning for declining enrollment and school closing. Through the use of the community task force, the frequently painful decisions entailed by a no-growth policy can be made more palatable. There are three types of task forces (the indepth seminar, the six- to eight-week study group, and…

This document is a transcript of the October 8, 1975 hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on S. 2425, "a bill to facilitate and encourage the implementation by states of child day care services and programs conducted pursuant to Title XX of the Social Security Act, and to promote the employment of welfare recipients in the…

Recent studies show that committee members are committed to their goals in a degree equal to their control of goal implementation. Results of a questionnaire sent to the 27 vocational-technical program coordinators at the College of DuPage (Illinois) asking them to indicate the frequency with which certain activities were engaged in by advisory…

The second annual report of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) presents NACIE's major 1974 activities and recommendations; the council's letter to Albert H. Quie, House of Representatives (a summary of the council's progress-to-date in which Chairman Will Antell explains in great detail the complexities and problems of…