Engineering education is going through a difficult period because of burgeoning undergraduate enrollments, falloff in nonforeign graduate students, and rapidly changing technology. The growing high-technology environment may encourage the development of professional programs in engineering. (Author/MLW)

A review of educational service delivery models for severely handicapped students is provided, learning and performance characteristics and their educational implications are discussed, and four instructional location strategies are addressed. The authors assert that systematic instruction in a wide variety of heterogeneous nonschool environments…

The American Indian Policy Review Commission's Health Task Force identified the following deficiencies in Indian health care: inadequate policy; inadequate appropriations; inadequate delivery systems; lack of responsiveness on the part of state and local agencies toward Indians; lack of oversight and accountability at all levels of Indian Health…

Described are the functions of the Captioned Films for the Deaf program, a free loan service of subtitled motion pictures similar in nature to the free loan service of Talking Books for the Blind. (SBH)

Studied was the impact of changes in service patterns, through regionalization of services to the mentally retarded, upon the Child Development Clinic at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. (IM)

Child welfare directors in 19 states and juvenile justice officials in 30 counties estimated that in fiscal year 2001 parents placed over 12,700 children into the child welfare or juvenile justice systems so that these children could receive mental health services. Neither the child welfare nor the juvenile justice system was designed to serve…

Intended to benefit the entire counseling community, this guidebook demonstrates current multicultural competencies and successful delivery of services across the various professional counseling disciplines. Leading authorities offer concrete direction for effective multicultural counseling and reflect on what they have found to be the best…

This book is an effort to document ideas, processes, and outcomes based on input from many people involved in accountability of interagency collaborative services programs. The goals, processes, instruments, and reporting systems presented have been developed through a team process over a 10-year period of involvement with Iowa's School-Based…

Education is a central component of Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Centers (MIRECCs) of Veterans Affairs. This paper focuses on the many components of education at the national level. The mission of the MIRECC initiative is to integrate all forms of scientific research and to quickly translate innovative findings and treatments…

The Maryland Higher Education Commission funded the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to review the state's financial aid programs and to make recommendations for improvement. To determine how to improve the content, delivery, and administration of financial aid in Maryland, AIR conducted a number of activities, including a literature review,…

This publication supports publication HEFCE 10/15, "Student Support Funding for Higher Education Institutions 2001-02." It sets out the final allocations for Hardship/Bursary funding and administrative costs for 2001-2002 (Annex A). The document contains guidance noted for the completion of the Access and Hardship monitoring return for…

The student needs assessment in this study allows a unique insight into the availability, delivery, and effectiveness of high school career programs. The research provides data from a 19-item, Comprehensive Career Needs Survey, administered to 888, Southern Alberta grade 12 students. The students value career plans and the resources, both people…

This document is a catalog of approximately 50 projects concerned with the transition from school to work of students with disabilities and sponsored by the Division of Personnel Preparation (DPP) of the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for the fiscal year 1992. The introduction notes that these…

This policy paper addresses how to strengthen school-based efforts for adolescent parents and their children so that they can be more effective in meeting the needs and improving the outcomes of these young families. Based on the experience and lessons of a 6-year effort, the Initiative to Strengthen School-Based Programs for Adolescent Parents…

Pinpoints several problems in youth services in general and in rural areas in particular. Suggests strategies for overcoming these obstacles: packaging services which meet child's total needs, establishing youth service bureaus to coordinate families and human services resources, and using natural helping networks of the community. (Author/AH)