Responsibilities of nonurban community colleges can appropriately embrace such activities and programs as short courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, civic action programs, paraprofessional training, counseling, career retraining, and other community oriented programs. These colleges and the communities they serve have special…

The theme of the 1970 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Education was "Higher Education for Everybody? Issues and Implications." The papers in this volume address themselves to the question of universal higher education and to the implications of this goal on institutional goals and practices as these relate to a student population that…

The Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) at the University of Iowa was established in April 1968, and has as its purpose the recruitment and provision of financial support and academic assistance to students from educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The program was established by President Howard R. Bowen during a memorial…

The St. Louis Board of Education found that too few students were willing to transfer to the centrally located O'Fallon Technical High School because of ties with neighborhood schools and because of the high percentage of Negro students attending O'Fallon. To solve these problems the Board received a 3-year Title III grant to institute a new…

When the City University of New York (CUNY) announced its open admissions program in 1969, the principal impact seemed to be local. Since then, an enormous amount of material has been generated about open admissions. CUNY published and distributed this bibliography in the hope that it will add to an understanding of open admissions and to future…

The purpose of this study was to analyze Puerto Rican response to the opportunities for higher education and to survey the prospects of recruiting more Puerto Ricans in "Educational Opportunity Fund Programs." Camden, New Jersey was chosen as a representative medium-sized city with a Puerto Rican Community. (JW)

Because of rapidly increasing college enrollments and a matching increase in tuition and other costs to students, this document presents a proposal for an open university to be created in the state of Massachusetts as an alternative to traditional higher education in the state. This study examines 13 principal components of this new university:…

The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education has as its main objective to improve postsecondary educational opportunities by providing assistance to educational institutions and agencies for a broad range of reforms and innovations. Grants and contracts may be awarded by the Fund for one of 8 purposes: (1) encouraging the reform,…

This document presents a conceptual model and applied framework for the small college to implement income contingent loans. Results of a Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) questionnaire indicate the utilization potential and attractiveness of the model. Further discussion concerns some prospects, the break-even tax rate, liquidity, the accumulation of debt…

This document presents reports from the individual universities of Ontario on policies of undergraduate student aid and accessibility to the universities during the academic year 1969-70. In addition, it presents recommendations from the universities as to how student aid policies might be improved to increase equality of access. (HS)

This document is an English-language abstract (Approximately 1,500 words) of Finnish legislation covering higher education between 1967 and 1981. The main aim of the act is to increase educational opportunities in Finnish higher education in the next few years. The number of those expected to take postgraduate studies by 1981 is 60,000. The…

Women and men too are becoming increasingly concerned about and aware of sex discrimination in higher education. In the past 2 years, formal charges of sex discrimination have been filed against 360 colleges and universities, none of which have been refuted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Discrimination exists in all facets of…

The community college's policy of open admissions and low tuition offers a chance for the achievement of cultural, social, educational, and/or vocational objectives by adult students and those who, for any number of reasons, are not aware of or eligible for financial support in the form of grants, loans, and scholarships. An historical review…

A classification scheme is given for materials related to occupational and educational opportunities collected by the Rutgers College Placement Office Library. The scheme assigns a four digit number to each item. The first digit designates which of the library's general areas the material covers: general, occupational, educational, or one of the…

Describes the successes of the Career Opportunities Program before it was deleted from the federal budget. (IRT)