THROUGH A PROCEDURE INVOLVING RESPONSES FROM 85 PERCENT OF THE STATE JUNIOR COLLEGES AND WEIGHTED RANK ORDERING OF ITEMS BY MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGE ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE'S ADVISORY AND STEERING SUBCOMMITTEES, 26 OF THE MOST CRITICAL NEEDS AND PROBLEMS ARE IDENTIFIED AND RANKED. THE FIRST FIVE ITEMS ARE CONCERN FOR EFFECTIVENESS…

TWO FORCES ARE COLLIDING IN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY TODAY--HISTORIC SENTIMENT, NURTURED BY THE FACULTY, AND THE PRESSURES OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS TO WHICH ADMINISTRATORS HAVE HAD TO ACCOMODATE. ADULT EDUCATION IS AT THE POINT OF IMPACT AND THE BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY NECESSARY TO MEET THE ISSUE HAVE NOT BEEN RAISED.…

This is a revision of "Regional Organization for Nebraska Libraries" published in 1962, which described the statewide program for library cooperation begun in 1962, proposing a regional pattern to involve all public libraries and establishment of minimum standards for the libraries designated as regional library centers. In the present…

This booklet summarizes results of a study on the role and activities of Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESAs) in Wisconsin. CESAs are regional voluntary educational service agencies established in 1965 to serve local Wisconsin school districts. Data for the study were gathered through interviews with the 19 CESA coordinators during the…

A study was conducted of Polk, Yamhill, and Marion Counties in Oregon to prepare a plan for developing cooperative regional library service. Public, community college, and special libraries were visited, and residents--both users and identified non-users--were interviewed to ascertain their attitudes, interests, and needs for library service. A…

The provision of ongoing psychological services to small rural schools has been a continuing problem to administrators for some time. With the advent of Plan A Comprehensive Special Education in Texas, small districts with less than 3,000 average daily attendance were encouraged to form cooperatives for special education services. The challenge to…

In 1972, Main Township (Illinois) High School District 207 eliminated its inhouse data processing operation and joined Educational Management Systems (EMS), a regional data processing cooperative. EMS was created by the Institute for Educational Research (IER), which first conducted a thorough study of school district's data processing practices.…

The objective of this project was to establish the Moraine Park Technical Institute as a Career Education Center to coordinate and provide a focus for the career education efforts of the public and private secondary schools in the Moraine Park Vocational, Technical and Adult Education District. The District service area covers several counties in…

The purpose of this historical report is to further the cause of rural sociology in the South. It is based on the author's memory of events relating to research activities, minutes of meetings, correspondence in his files, and selected reports from other rural sociologists in the South. Specifically discussed are the limited personnel in rural…

The report describes the process and content of a cooperative regional approach aimed at introducing environmental education into the Adult Basic Education (ABE) curriculum. Tracing the purposes, planning, development, and design of the conference, the document offers need statements developed to serve as a general guide from which to plan…

In order to identify an appropriate legal structure for an interstate library agency in the southwest region of the United States the variety of existing organizational patterns actually used by various interstate service operations or potentially available for use were surveyed. Attention was paid to the legal requirements which influence the…

This research project was designed to study the present situation and functions of the provincial universities and to assess their role in regional development as well as to make recommendations for the more effective contributions to the development of the provinces in which they are situated. This project covered universities in 11 provinces…

One of 6 state reports of projects and programs operating in cooperation with the Regional Curriculum Project, the document highlights major topics discussed during a workshop relating to the reorganization of small school districts. The 5 major topics are "The Great Plains Project," which relates to planning for reorganization;…

This monograph analyzes the current situation in the school-college relationship in preparing school personnel and suggests some future developments. The growth of this cooperation is traced from its tentative beginnings in the early years of the century to the much greater activity of the 1960's. The rationale for cooperation and partnership is…

Representatives from Korea, China, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, the United States and Southeast Asian Ministers of Education (SEAMES) attended an international seminar to reaffirm the importance of books as national development tools, to seek measures for having it reflected in the national policies and to promote international cooperation in book…