Designed by the library community and approved by the Maryland Advisory Council on Libraries, the Maryland Library Association, and the State Board of Education, this master plan establishes directions and targets for meeting the library needs of Maryland citizens for the next five years. The result of a series of formal and informal meetings of…

Intended to provide background information for a special advisory commission created by the state legislature to study the desirability of a state library networking system, this series of 12 papers prepared by the staff librarians of the Virginia State Library summarizes the workings of various network programs, techniques for implementing them,…

Activities of the final year are reported as they relate to the objectives of the Wisconsin Dissemination Planning (WDP) Project: (1) to develop a plan for coordination among the dissemination functions in the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) through a state-wide steering committee; (2) to complete a needs assessment for dissemination…

This document summarizes the discussions and presentations made at a seminar on Research Coordinating Units (RCUs) held by the Coordinating Committee on Research in Vocational Education (CCRVE) on December 14, 1979. Presentations were made on the following topics: establishment and activities of the CCRVE; historical perspective of the RCUs;…

This report describes a project for developing the capacity to provide Wyoming's local education agencies with the means, resources, and processes for effective incremental improvement of their ongoing education efforts, particularly in vocational education, through adoption of an adaptation of the National Institute of Education's…

A six-month study and evaluation of statewide California program review procedures focused on four major questions: (1) What is statewide program review? (2) To whom is it important? (3) How does it operate in California? and (4) How can it be made more responsive to questions of quality and accountability? Four state administrative offices were…

This policy based on the principle that all types of libraries and users stand to benefit from increased cooperation was adopted by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction in 1979. The development and support of both formal and informal cooperative arrangements is encouraged as a means to facilitate resource sharing among all schools within…

This paper prepared for the Task Force on the Role of School Library Media Programs in Networking reviews the role of networking in such programs, lists the objectives of networking for library consortia, and discusses such topics as the benefits and disadvantages of participation in these organizations, prerequisites and criteria for networking,…

Since Title IV of the Indian Education Act of 1972 stipulates organization of parent advisory committees for input in program development and since Federal aid to American Indian education has been misused and mismanaged in the past, it is essential that parent advisory committees be trained to effectively utilize legislation affecting Indian…

The Regents Task Force has as an authorization to consider the implications of collective bargaining for faculty governance, the implications of collective bargaining for institutional autonomy in a system of universities such as the Wisconsin system, and the implications of collective bargaining for recruiting, and retaining quality faculty.…

Two projects, designed to serve as technical input to the developing Texas State Plan for Higher Continuing Education, focused on: (1) enrollment trends and needs, institutional activities, and statewide planning across the nation; and (2) higher education and community services. Both projects involved extensive survey work of institutional visits…

Arkansas Postsecondary Education Planning Commission analyzes and recommends possible ways of alleviating the problems of coordination and administration of student assistance procedures and programs in Arkansas postsecondary institutions. The Commission surveyed student aid directors and high school counselors in an attempt to reach an unbiased…

This document is the first statistical summary pertaining to desegregation of higher education in Arkansas in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Included are statistical data relating to: (1) student enrollment, student financial aid, institutional service areas, graduates, degree programs, and degrees granted; (2) academic…

Issues of federal-state-institutional relations are moving to the center of attention of policymakers concerned with postsecondary education. One reason for the shift is that the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, which contained a number of important measures bearing on these relations, will be subject to revision and renewal in the current…

The role of statewide coordinating/governing agencies in the program review and approval process has grown steadily. It would seem expedient for those involved in the process of state level program review to share ideas, experiences, and concepts of the review process in order to better understand the process itself and to explore possibilities…