BASED ON PROJECTIONS OF NEEDS, STUDENTS, COSTS, FACILITIES, AND STAFF, THE REPORT RECOMMENDED THAT PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION CONSIST OF THREE SEGMENTS--THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE STATE COLLEGES, AND THE JUNIOR COLLEGES. ENROLLMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY IS RESTRICTED TO THE TOP ONE-EIGHTH OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, WHILE THE STATE…

Off-campus and external degree programs in Georgia were surveyed in 1978-79 to examine the quality of education of off-campus offerings and standards in teacher education, certification, and staff development. Information was obtained from public school superintendents regarding off-campus credit courses and from colleges located within and…

The purpose of AB 3408 is 1) to create public dialogue and systematic accountability at the local level regarding the skills high school graduates should possess, and 2) to encourage schools to focus attention on students who have difficulty mastering reading, writing, or mathematics skills. The legislation requires all school districts…

Grade distribution patterns at Humboldt State University in California were examined over a five-year period on the basis of mode of instruction and by academic department. The grade distributions for each academic department were compared with the other departments within the same school, and the distribution for each school was compared with…

Enrollment figures indicate that American colleges and universities are still segregated institutions. One-half of Negro college students are attending predominantly Negro colleges and most of the rest are attending junior colleges or other "open door" schools. Although there are a number of reasons for this academic qualifications for admission…

America needs and expects from higher education quality of result and equality of access. To meet these expectations, a much greater federal investment is essential for present resources cannot keep pace with growth in institutional size and functions, and rising costs. Maintenance of a strong system of higher education is in the national interest…

The author, one of the most outspoken proponents of fundamentalist education, describes what he sees as the invasion of illiteracy, the departure from discipline, and the paucity of patriotism rampant in today's schools. The responsibility for these problems, he believes, lies with boards of education, teachers' unions, the tenure system,…

This publication reviews court decisions and examines legal principles relevant to the dismissal of students for failure to meet academic standards. Much of the discussion involves the dismissal of students from medical schools and other professional schools, since that has been the source for much of the relevant court litigation. The discussion…

Performance standards are useful tools when comparative evaluation or personal selection are not appropriate for decision making. The concept was developed in 1962 when Glaser introduced criterion referenced testing, to emphasize the importance of making test scores informative about learning processes rather than comparing them to other people's…

Statements of policies and procedures and evaluation criteria used by the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Independent Colleges and Schools are presented. The organization and function of the Accrediting Commission, the bases of eligibility for evaluation and accreditation of all types of institutions, and the general classification of…

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court of a case involving the dismissal for academic reasons of a student from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School is presented. The Court upheld that Charlotte Horowitz had been afforded all rights by the fourteenth amendment and that the decision of the Court of Appeals, which held that the…

The National Accreditation Council for Environmental Health Curricula consists of persons from universities with programs in environmental health, and from agencies employing environmental health personnel. The Council has prepared this statement on its aims and purposes, developed criteria, and established operating procedures for an…

The document is a final report of a study of the basic competencies required by water utility operators using a ground water source, conducted at Southwest Wisconsin Vocational-Technical Institute from July to August 1974. The overall purpose of the project is to develop a competency-based curriculum model for statewide use in municipal…

The Office of Education's system for determining institutional eligibility for access to Federal funds derives from a series of 13 specific statutory mandates. It uses HEGIS (Eigher Education General Information Survey form #2300-1), that provides basic institutional characteristics information, which together with catalogs and other materials,…

This document divides a cluster of medical schools into seven groups based on percent change in entering class size from 1970-71 to 1973-74. These groups were then used to analyze differences between schools of differing class-size change patterns for 307 varibales drawn from the Institutional Profile System of the Association of American Medical…