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Download full textBANFIELD, RALPH W.; HALL, GEORGE L.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT THREE CONFERENCES FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES AND PRESIDENTS INCLUDED (1) A CONSIDERATION OF THE ROLES OF THE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE, THE UNIVERSITY, AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, (2) FACULTY RELATIONS WITH ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF, (3) A CASE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ST. LOUIS JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT, (4) FEDERAL…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, College Buildings, College Faculty, Conference Reports
WITMER, DAVID R. – 1967
THE LITERATURE ON UNIT COST STUDIES IS REVIEWED, AND A UNIT COST STUDY IS MADE ON THE WISCONSIN STATE UNIVERSITIES. UNIT COST STUDIES ARE USEFUL IN FOUR WAYS--(1) THEY PROVIDE INFORMATION WHICH CAN BE RELATED TO THE GOALS OF EDUCATION IN MAJOR POLICY FORMATION, (2) THEY PROVIDE A BASIS FOR THE EVALUATION OF EFFICIENCY AT DIFFERENT LEVELS, (3) THEY…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Budgets, Costs, Educational Finance
Wirt, Frederick M. – 1980
This paper explores the politics of education with emphasis on the uses and influences of educational research in educational policy formation. Objectives are to identify information needs of policy makers and to shed light on the educational policy process. The hypothesis is that there is a lack of unity in studies of the political aspects of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Legislation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Safman, Phyllis C. – 1980
A study conducted in Illinois determined how or if decision-makers actually used the results of a community problems needs assessment survey ("Illinois: Today and Tomorrow") of 15,000 persons in the state. Data for the use study were collected from sixty in-depth personal interviews with randomly selected cooperative extension advisors…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Decision Making, Extension Agents, Legislators
Murdick, Olin J. – 1977
The major difficulty facing the institutionalization of shared responsibility in the Catholic Church, with reference to education, is a lack of awareness that various kinds of decisions must be made, various functions must be performed, and various structures should be established to carry out these functions. The general and comprehensive nature…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Role, Catholic Schools
Bosma, Boyd – 1980
This paper provides an overview of events and issues in school desegregation that have significant impact on teachers and teacher associations. The displacement of black teachers as a result of desegregation prior to 1972 is assessed. Various court decisions in 1972-73 and the passage of the Emergency School Aid Act are cited as marking a turning…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Classroom Desegregation, Community Relations, Contracts
De Sanctis, Vincent; Paulsmeyer, David L. – 1980
A study was conducted to determine the perceived impact of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education on policy making in adult basic education (ABE), and incidentally, to examine the role of federal advisory committees. After a review of the literature, two questionnaires were developed and sent to past and present Council members and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Advisory Committees
Ruopp, Richard; And Others – 1980
This volume, "Measurements and Measures" is the second of three Technical Appendices to the National Day Care Study (NDCS) and presents seven individual reports on a series of technical tasks undertaken to support the principal analyses of the effects of key center characteristics on children. Among the topics covered: analysis of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Work in America Inst., Scarsdale, NY. – 1980
A study was conducted to determine the role of the older worker in the American labor force, to analyze reasons behind the changing role of the older worker, and to make recommendations for employers, unions, and the government on age-neutral personnel policies responsive to the needs of an increasingly older work force. Data on the demographic,…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Demography, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1980
In order to elicit discussion on issues of concern to policy-makers at all levels of government, the Regional Planning and Service Project of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory invited educational policy-makers from its region to participate in a symposium on the impact of policy decisions on school performance. Symposium…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Court Role, Decision Making, Educational Policy
National Inst. for Advanced Studies, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report provides an executive summary and overviews of the transcripts of each of the seven National hearings held prior to the White House Conference on Families. Involving testimony of citizens and experts, and site visits to innovative programs and groups serving families, the Hearings were held in Kansas, Tennessee, Colorado, Connecticut,…
Descriptors: Conferences, Day Care, Economic Status, Family (Sociological Unit)
Saupe, William E. – 1980
Information about small farms is valuable at federal, state, and local levels to program managers and community developers, researchers and educators, policy makers and farm families themselves. Adequate information can help in the assessment of small farm program needs, development of appropriate policies, and management of effective programs,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Resources, Family Characteristics, Family Financial Resources
Babcock, William A.; Ostman, Ronald E. – 1980
Debates and policies in the late 1950s and early 1960s regarding the United States-Soviet space race are described in this paper, and an analysis is presented of press coverage of President John F. Kennedy's public statements regarding space technology and exploration. The first sections of the paper present a selected space chronology from 1957…
Descriptors: Aerospace Technology, Competition, Content Analysis, Cooperation
Chartrand, Robert Lee; Bortnick, Jane – 1979
This report on a preconference symposium held July 31, 1979 presents recommendations developed to interpret the conference theme of library and information services for increasing international understanding. Five discussion groups were organized to consider (1) the current status of international information flow, (2) overcoming barriers to…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Policy, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
Miller, James O.; And Others – 1969
This paper discusses the problems and issues involved in the organizational structure of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education. The National Laboratory, which consisted of a coordination center and six university based research and development centers, was organized for the purpose of planning, sponsoring and conducting research and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Early Childhood Education
