Information systems in higher education are not effective, it is suggested, because currently only formulators and users are involved with them, when planners and policy makers should also be involved. Ways of meeting needs or anticipated demands for information should be assessed on three criteria: structure, frequency, and accuracy. Implications…

Outlines four common functions of the institutional researcher at community colleges: conducting and coordinating institutional research, including descriptive, evaluative, operational, and policy research; assisting staff and community with research activities; collecting and disseminating research information; and participating in institutional…

Examines the resources devoted by the United States to public social welfare programs. Compares these expenditures with those by other industrial nations and notes possible future trends. For journal availability, see SO 506 144. (Author/DB)

Comments on a recent "Prospects" article on education in developing countries are presented. The author, a World Bank executive, commends the efforts of the Education Department of the World Bank at looking, listening, and discussing on the spot all aspects of the development process and in financing educational reform in economically…

Comments critically on the Recommendations of the Arts, Americans and Educational Panel concerning "philosophical, substantive, and structural changes" in proposing a national arts education policy. Suggests four themes within the text and recommendations of the Report that should be treated with caution in formulating an arts policy.…

The Carter alien package, unveiled on August 4, 1977, guarantees the perpetuation and intensification of exploitation of undocumented persons in the United States. The proposals will have little impact on the so-called "illegal alien" problems, and may in fact exacerbate the problem. The Administration's plan is primarily, though not…

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 sets the basic standards for disclosure of data in educational records. The manner in which data are to be classified within the records is to be determined by local policy. This article describes the Massachusetts regulations on student data classification. (Author/GC)

"Some aspects of policy formation as an outcome of aggregation from diverse collective bargaining agreements are identified. Data from a nation-wide sample of 7325 full-time teaching faculty were used to show differences between membership in three professional organizations by site and type of college or university, the career situation, the…

Examines from a feminist perspective the costs and the benefits accruing to divorce mothers. The development of services and lobbying groups for divorced women within existing womens' centers are advocated, as well as the establishment of specialized divorce centers. (Author/AM)

Notes that the Employment Act of 1946 lumps unemployment into one undifferentiated mass without distinguishing any order of priority among groups for whom maximum employment opportunities should be sought in relation to other groups. (Author/AM)

A critical issues addressed in this paper is the lack of response of higher education, especially four-year and graduate programs, in preparing graduates to develop and implement change products while working in entry level positions. (Author)

Concludes that to the extent that collective defenselessness of workers exists anywhere, movements like illegal immigration, the self-transportation of cheap labor toward the places where needed, are bound to continue. (Author/AM)

Summarizes the four main themes dealt with at the Oslo Conference in 1976: the challenge to cultural policy in a changing society, cultural policy as an instrument for improving the quality of life, support and encouragement of artistic creation and cultural cooperation. Also considers four secondary themes: culture and the child, migrant workers,…

Concludes that the real challenge to social scientists in this administration, and any other, is not how to relate effectively and get more funds from the executive branch, but how to relate more effectively as teachers and learners in the political process--with the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. (Author/JM)

Concludes that doing demonstrations and innovations is "good" so long as we are willing to pursue "goods" other than gains in student cognitive and affective behavioral outcomes. The situation for public education is unsatisfactory because the effort has not been clearly productive. A viable new beginning requires the alteration of fundamental…