The social security system in the United States is becoming increasingly unstable, as the amount of benefits paid to an ever larger number of retirees grows and the number of younger workers paying taxes to the system decreases. The problem will become especially acute in the years 2011 and after, as the members of the "baby boom"…

Issues and factors related to the continuation of state energy education programs are discussed. The turmoil over energy's changing position among public priorities, limited federal and state budgets available for meeting energy education needs, substantive changes in both federally-sponsored and state-supported programs, and concomitant changes…

Catholic educators in recent years have worked to increase their schools' capacity to provide special education services to more students. The expansion of federal programs to support students with special needs has aided in dealing with this issue, but it has also exacerbated problems. The exacerbation comes from the increased focus on both the…

Programs of vocational education focus on raising the productive capacity of individuals. Because of this commitment to human development, vocational education is a resource that can help solve many of the pressing economic problems facing our nation at this time. A federal investment in vocational education is in fact a very viable means of…

BECAUSE OF THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE POSITION OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN STRENGTHENING HIGHER EDUCATION. THE GOVERNMENT'S SHARE IN FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS SHOULD BE INCREASED, AND EMPHASIS ON EXPANSION OF ENROLLMENT CAPACITY SHOULD…

This report provides data on Federal funds for research and development for the period from 1977-1979. The data show Federal R&D funding levels as reported by 94 agencies in March through May of 1978, and are based on agency budgets as incorporated in the President's 1979 budget message to Congress. This report is based on three years of the 1979…

The purpose of the two-day hearings (Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas presiding) was to provide a forum to examine the whole range of rural economic problems and to educate members of the House and Senate as to the seriousness and need for comprehensive rural development programs. The proceedings contain remarks and prepared statements by the…

Presented is information on approximately 100 Federal programs designed to assist the handicapped and/or people working with or for them. It is explained that the compilation was excerpted from the 1975 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, gathered from material provided by the Library of Congress, and augmented by a survey of Federal agencies…

In preparation for the National Bilingual Institute which was held November 28-December 1, 1973, a mail survey of fifth year ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Title VII Bilingual Education Projects was conducted. Its purpose was to obtain data relative to the progress of bilingual bicultural education programs since implementation of…

In December 1973 the Higher Education Panel conducted a survey of its 646 member institutions regarding their experiences in the fall of 1973 with the Office of Education student assistance programs. The data from responding institutions (515) were weighted statistically to develop population estimates of the number and type of students nationwide…

The politics of higher education during the Nixon administration are reviewed in chronological sequence of the most relevant events of this period. Significant political aspects and policy initiatives of the 1972 legislation are indicated. Policy initiatives are discussed in relation to student aid, institutional aid, and innovation and reform.…

This paper summarizes the purposes, history, and funding history of the curriculum development program which is Part I of the Vocational Education Amendments, describes the major categories of the program effort, and offers recommendations for the future of the program. Problems in career development and management at the national level which have…

Criticising human capital analysis as it has been applied to public policy (e.g. seeing educational institutions as means to greater personal and national income and substituting capital for labor, which causes competition for students' borrowed money), the author argues for a negative income tax and an endowment funding for institutions of higher…

Discusses the federally sponsored Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides benefits for severely impaired children from low- and moderate-income families. (CM)

The ways in which 24 private and 24 public AAU universities have established this student assistance policy are examined. Consideration is given to some of the implications for universities and especially graduate students. (Author/LBH)