An informed perspective is the key to the role trustees should play in college and university affairs. It is especially important in academic matters, where the authority of trustees is most likely to be challenged. (Author/DN)

Child care workers often seek advice from experts and are frequently themselves viewed as experts as they help parents and others. This article discusses some of the significant issues facing those who provide guidance and those who receive it. (Author)

This bibliography lists and annotates 395 English language publications that deal with problems and issues relating to communication policy and planning in 53 countries. In most cases the policy and planning problems are discussed in the context of other communication problems. The entries are indexed by subject, by country or region, and by…

This document contains six papers presented at a conference on Science and Public Policy in the American University, held at Indiana University, March 20-22, 1968. The purpose of the conference was to report results of curriculum development in science and to examine issues and problems of science policy. All six papers included address topics of…

Examined is the utility of evaluation research as a framework for converting raw data into a form that is useful to the decisionmaker. The origins and purposes of evaluation research and the relationship between the evaluator and decisionmaker are examined, and some of the major issues in evaluation research methodology are reviewed. The role of…

Major policies and recommended procedures for the accreditation of graduate programs is presented. The policies and procedures discussed apply to all institutions offering graduate work that are accredited or seek accreditation, including "newer" types such as external degree programs, programs established for highly specialized student…

This book examines the capacity of the courts to make and implement social policy, focusing on how issues emerge in litigation, how courts obtain their information, how judges use social science data, how legal solutions to social problems are devised, and what happens to judge-made social policy after decrees leave the courthouse. After a general…

This report examines the public's role in determining the dimensions of the public interest in the regulation of broadcast services. Chapter II describes some of the avenues open to citizens to influence the Federal Communication Commission, including: (1) direct contact between broadcasters and citizens, (2) citizen participation in the…

In this report on a two-day workshop involving the Vermont Education Association (VEA) and its Subject Matter Affiliates, the main concern is identified as an effort to develop an effective means by which the VEA and its affiliates can provide mutually rewarding assistance to each other. The first session was primarily concerned with examining the…

The final summary of the progress, accomplishments, findings, and recommendations of a project to develop and implement a management information system for long-range planning of vocational education at the local level is presented in this report. Goals and purposes of the original proposal are stated and their development traced in research, work…

Stresses that the goal setting function can take place at a variety of levels and involve any number of different curricular, instructional or administrative frameworks. Suggests a set of agenda items for colleges which seek to engage in a future-oriented process of setting goals. (Author/PG)

Because of the nature of policy-making and its crucial difference from decision-making, more than empirical knowledge is required. Programs for education educational administrators ought to include the perspective provided by the humanities, particularly history. (Author)

Analysis of report to be published by the Urban Coalition.

The recent innovation of adapting the debate to the judge's preferred philosophy appears to have been supplanted by a converse trend: advocates now attempt to force the judge to adopt the paradigm dictated by the strategies of the debate round. The existence of such a widespread dispute over the appropriate decision making system in debate…