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Download full textSouthern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1979
The proceedings of the 28th annual Legislative Work Conference of the Southern Regional Education Board are presented. Facts and issues surrounding faculty salaries and compensation are discussed in articles by David Spence and Richard Chait. Among trends to emerge from the articles is the fact that faculty salaries in the South have halved the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Role, Educational Legislation, Governance
Further Education Staff Coll., Blagdon (England). – 1975
The conferences were part of a series on the development of the field of postsecondary education in Britain. Proceedings of the first conference, on the college and its community relations, include: what do we mean by community? (M. Stacey); analyzing the environment (C.M. Turner); education and society (D.F. Swift); the Bradford idea (J. Sudell);…
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1994
This document contains information about the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's six initiatives and comments from participants at the annual Policy Seminar, sponsored jointly by the department and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), July 11-13, 1994. The document contains the participants' comments regarding the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Intervention, Education Work Relationship, Educational Equity (Finance)
State Univ. System of Florida, Tallahassee. – 1980
Proceedings from a conference entitled "Women Moving Forward: Improving Florida's Economy through Leadership, Power and Influence" are presented. The 1979 statewide conference, which brought together leaders from industry, government, education, and the communities, was designed to promote the social and economic needs of women. Contents…
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Business, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Illinois State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1972
The symposium was called by the State of Illinois Advisory Council on Vocational Education, a broadly based entity representing both education and consumers of education from a cross section of the State. Its major aims were: (1) to define the major problems and opportunities that will challenge the State of Illinois over the next 10-15 years, (2)…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Conference Reports
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
The State has primary responsibility for public education. It should be the priority for each State legislature, State Board of Education, and chief State school officer to consider what methods can be employed to meet equal opportunity/ desegregation standards, to devise and implement strategies to overcome deficiencies, and, thereby, to assure…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Board of Education Role, Conference Reports, Elementary Secondary Education
Montana State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Helena. – 1979
The findings and recommendations of a two-day conference on the civil and human rights of inmates of Montana's correctional institutions are contained in this report. The views of private citizens and experts from local, state, and federal organizations are presented in edited form under seven subject headings: existing prison reform legislation,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Correctional Institutions
Texas Advisory Council for Technical - Vocational Education, Austin. – 1977
This report summarizes the proceedings of the Governor's Conference on Technical-Vocational Education in Texas, which was held (1) to provide a public forum on vocational, technical, adult, and manpower education; (2) to assess developments in these areas since the 1973 Governor's Conference; (3) to examine key issues related to the funding,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Career Choice
Brenner, Patricia, Ed. – 1980
This volume consists of eight papers presented at a conference focusing on the ways in which the educational system influences sex equity and how the two are related to occupational stereotyping. Discussed in the first two papers are sex equity in vocational education and sex equity in education. Enrollment and staffing patterns in vocational…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Practices
Pasque, Penny A., Ed.; Hendricks, Lori A., Ed.; Bowman, Nicholas A., Ed. – National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good (NJ1), 2006
The Wingspread Conference Series (2003-2005), "Strategies to Strengthen the Relationship between Higher Education and Society", brought together scholars, institutional and national leaders, community activists, and graduate and undergraduate students to examine the current and evolving relationships between higher education and society. The goals…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Equal Education, Social Responsibility
Rosenbusch, Marcia Harmon, Ed. – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006
The National Assessment Summit was designed to bring together users and producers of assessments and engage them in a discussion of unmet assessment needs and untapped assessment capacities. The meeting was truly a summit in that national foreign language organizations and associations were asked to nominate representatives to bring their…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Tests, Educational Practices, Language Acquisition
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1984
A National conference was held to examine State policies and practices for helping disabled youth make the school-to-work transition more successfully. The focus of the first day of the conference was on transitional programs currently in existence in Maryland, Michigan, and New York. The first part of the second day's activities involved the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Career Awareness, Coordination, Delivery Systems
Maryland State Commission for Women, Baltimore. – 1999
The Girls to Women Initiative was undertaken by a group of Maryland professionals and volunteers to identify and help meet the needs of Maryland's girls and young women in the 21st century. The professionals and volunteers researched and held conferences examining gender-specific issues concerning health and lifestyle, family life, education, and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Agency Cooperation
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems
