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Van Dusen, William D. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1979
Major questions identified by the conference participants dealt with the following issues: goals and commitments of financial aid; funding of financial aid; operation of the student aid system; governance of student aid; and outlook in terms of demand and delivery systems. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Students, Conference Reports, Delivery Systems, Educational Demand
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2010
The Black College and University Act defined an historically black college and university (HBCU) as one that existed before 1964 with a historic and contemporary mission of educating blacks while being open to all. An HBCU must either have earned accreditation from a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or be making reasonable…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, School Effectiveness, Civil Rights Legislation, Student Development
International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario). – 1990
This report on proceedings of a forum to discuss international cooperation and adult education is divided into four sessions. Each session contains panel presentations on a theme and roundtable discussions. Session one, "Literacy and Adult Education: What Are the Issues?" contains the following presentations: "Towards an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Decision Making, Employed Women
Greenwood, Reed, Ed. – 1990
A series of papers is presented from two symposia sponsored by the Work Environment and Technology Committee and offered at annual conferences of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. The 1988 symposium was called "Applying Technology in the Work Environment" and the 1989 symposium was called "Reasonable…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Case Studies, Disabilities, Employment
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1991
This document reports on the proceedings of a forum on special education, called by Alberta's Minister of Education. The forum was intended to present Alberta Education's preliminary position on the integration of students with special needs and solicit feedback, review concerns raised in the Special Education Review Action Plan, and provide ideas…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Policy
Shuster, Claudia Kramer, Ed.; And Others – 1990
In June, 1989, The National Council of Jewish Women and Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy convened the Family Day Care Round Table as part of the National Family Day Care Project. Goals of the round table were to: (1) explore hard questions about family day care; (2) identify promising programs and practices for enhancing…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1990
This summary of some of the salient features of the Second Colorado Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services begins with "A Letter to the Future," by project director Kimberly Taylor, who provides practical advice for future conference planners. The report then presents a summary of the conference process, which included…
Descriptors: Committees, Conferences, Family Literacy, Financial Support
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1983
Federal, state, local, and institutional perspectives on the financial future of Maryland's community colleges are presented in this conference proceedings. In the first section, spokesmen from the Brookings Institution examine "Federalism--Old and New." James Sundquist discusses President Reagan's "New Federalism" and its…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Clubb, Deborah, Ed.; Ligon, Polly C., Ed. – 1989
Colloquium participants were asked to make informed guesses about whether developing countries can grow and equitably distribute the food they need over the next decade, what the international development community should do to help in both production and distribution, and what role the United States should play in the development process. The 17…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Development
California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, Petuluma. – 1986
Published in response to requests for a permanent record of California's CALTAC (California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners) WILL (Workshops in Library Leadership) program, an ongoing program funded by an LSCA (Library Services and Construction Act) grant from the California State Library, this report is a compilation of the…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Computer Software, Financial Support, Legislation
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1982
Scientists/engineers from industry, universities, and government met to: review the status of scientific instrumentation in university research laboratories; explore new approaches to alleviating problems within existing budgetary constraints; and suggest ways for the National Research Council (NRC) to help. Federal agency, corporate, and…
Descriptors: Agencies, College Science, Electronic Equipment, Federal Aid
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. – 1977
This document presents proceedings of the Midwest Regional Teacher Center Conference, designed to create an awareness of Illinois' teacher centers, as an opportunity for staff development for center personnel, and to provide a forum to explore the potential, rationale, evaluation processes, and vital issues of the teacher center concept. Presented…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Opportunities, Federal State Relationship, Financial Support
National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Washington, DC. Committee on Minorities in Engineering – 1978
The objectives of this workshop, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, were to form recommendations and to develop strategies for the implementation of these recommendations derived from a thorough review and assessment of the educational experiences of minority undergraduate students in engineering, and to develop strategies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, College Students, Engineering Education
Asian Association of Open Universities. – 1993
Economics and mass higher education have become firmly coupled not only in the minds of distance educators but also in those of policy makers, politicians, educational economists, and social scientists. These conference proceedings add to the knowledge and experience of colleagues from around the world who address the topics of cost effectiveness,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
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Scheid, Barbara L.; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1992
Includes seven articles that report on the 1991 library director's conference sponsored by VTLS Inc. Highlights include linking multimedia digital libraries; NREN (National Research and Education Network) and CNI (Coalition for Networked Information); the role of NCLIS (National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences): library…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Conferences, Copyrights, Electronic Libraries
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