Identification of problems encountered by the Office of Indian Education (OIE) and development of recommendations to improve administrative and programmatic effectiveness of OIE were goals of this study, prepared by a team from the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE). Information for evaluation was obtained from 20 survey forms…

This paper is a practical guide for states planning to implement a review panel to enhance file maintenance in a career information system. It also describes successful methods employed in established review panels in California, Alaska, Washington, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Michigan, and Oregon. The first two brief sections introduce the purpose…

This guide presents an equitable system for allocating non-instructional staff positions within the postsecondary vocational schools of Georgia. Chapter 1 first discusses the background/development of allocation formulae for three groups of non-instructional personnel: administrators and other non-instructional professional personnel,…

This study identified child care services needed by employees and students at West Virginia Wesleyan College. A child care needs assessment survey of all college personnel and married students was conducted. Results indicate 98.5% of all respondents were either in favor of or were neutral to the addition of child care services to Wesleyan's Child…

A study was conducted preliminary to establishing a linkage between the needs of business and government for personnel qualified in foreign languages on the one hand, and the need for career opportunities for college students studying foreign languages on the other. This volume reports on the accomplishments of each phase of the study. The initial…

A resource network can serve as a strategy for personnel-multiplying by performing many activities and functions that the linking agent would otherwise have to perform; e.g., such a network can provide an organized method for identifying and collecting resources, as well surveying the kinds of resources available. The Illinois Resource and…

The first sections of this Master Plan outline the history of the Illinois Public Community College System and its mission and scope. The next section deals with enrollment projections in terms of the changes in the state's population, and implications for enrollments; the decreasing college-going rate of high school graduates; increased…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO PROVIDE DATA FOR USE IN DEVELOPING OR IMPROVING ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS. A POSTAL CARD QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 678 MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSING INDUSTRIES IN IOWA EMPLOYING MORE THAN 50 PERSONS AND ALL ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC, AND PRECISION INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURERS EMPLOYING FEWER THAN 50 PERSONS. DATA WERE…

To help provide the best kind of learning environment for migrant children is the intent of this handbook. Historical, economical, and environmental information that is essential to understanding and working effectively with these children is presented. Suggestions for initiating, conducting, and evaluating a summer program are offered, as well as…

This planning document projects the needs, activities, and performance goals for the University of California's library system. The first four chapters provide a historical overview of the university and its library system; an analysis of the functions of the libraries; a discussion of the need for a new approach to the system's organization,…

It is recommended that the development and implementation of all new or existing programs related to life-long learning and expansion of opportunities for non-traditional learners at Hamline University be consolidated into a single administrative unit called the Center for Academic Development. The proposed mission of the center, including…

This booklet describes the Financial Projection Program, a computer program package developed as one part of a family of educational management systems. The program projects personnel by type, forecasts salaries, applies state funding formulas, and projects revenues, expenditures, and related financial data. Its purpose is to produce a projected…

This article attempts to identify the nature and the magnitude of Indiana commercial needs for foreign languages, and to determine how companies have coped thus far with such needs. These features are reflected in six tables, showing use of foreign languages, distribution of foreign language use by form and type, nature of international…

The University of Mid-America (UMA) is a central agency which offers course development services to member institutions and conducts planning, research, and evaluation in the areas of adult education and learning delivery systems. Originally conceived as an outreach program of the State University of Nebraska, UMA has expanded to serve the needs…

To study library education in relation to library manpower needs in Indiana, questionnaires were sent to the state's library schools and to its public, academic, school, and special libraries. Information was collected on the basic concerns of libraries in the areas of professional education and staff utilization specific past and future staffing…