A participant in the Conference sketches the contributions of various speakers from university extra-mural departments and local education authorities addressing themselves to the interlocked problems summarized as disadvantagement. (AJ)

Presented here is a summary of proceedings of a May, 1972, environmental debate held in Stockholm. The problems of development, of family planning, of the relationship between the rich and the poor countries and the problems of the environment, considered together, concern the whole of the world population in what is usually called the…

The Workshop on Regional Drug Abuse Programming was called to investigate the need for a Federally-supported model, stressing inter-agency coordination, to be employed by states as a guide for establishing substate area programs, and to explore other questions related to programs for drug abuse prevention and treatment. The organization of state…

The Conference, part of a group convoked under auspices of the Organization of American States, offered specific resolutions concerning the role of women in education and work, and held discussions which resulted in recommendations that the OAS be urged to furnish advice and aid enabling countries to work to change public attitudes on, and the…

Describes recommendations of a task force formed under the auspices of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, including more standardized procedures for collecting and evaluating environmental data. (MLH)

This is a report of the Conference on Universities, National Laboratories, and Man's Environment. The conference was sponsored by the Argonne Universities Association (AUA), a consortium of 30 universities. Reports and discussions of the following three sessions are presented: Universities and National Laboratories Together Must Help Solve…

Includes presentations from a panel of persons considering possible goals for the turn of the century. Panelists included an economist, a governmental official, a judge, and an engineer. (SLH)

This publication contains presentations made at the National Symposium on the Serious Juvenile Offender. The meeting was convened to identify key policies and to assess present attitudes and information regarding youth who commit serious crimes--especially violent crimes. The National Juvenile Justice Act stimulated the development of criteria for…

Discusses a report of 12 of the nation's leading environmental groups which identifies nine environmental problem areas and proposes 75 specific actions for approaching present and foreseeable problems. (MLH)

Papers from a workshop on compensatory education involving twenty researchers in eleven member states in the Council of Europe are included in this document. The objective of the workshop is to enable the researchers to discuss the problems which face compensatory education projects at a higher level of technicality than that permitted at the…

At a national symposium on Societal Problems of Water Resources at Western Illinois University, scientists discussed dams, canals, water pollution control and management programs, federal-state relations in resource planning, and their effects on how we live. (BL)

The first National Conference on Black Women (Louisville, Kentucky) focused on their special situation in relation to black men and the women's movement. (Author/KM)

This document contains the proceedings of a workshop conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held at the Institute of Man and Science in Rensselaerville, New York, in May 1976. The proceedings include presented papers, discussions, and comments of the participants. The conference had two sets of…

The three-part final report documents recommend recommendations and resolutions and summarizes the work of more than 700 delegates to the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, May 23-27, 1977, in Washington, D.C. It is emphasized that the primary purpose of the conference was to give persons with mental and/or physical disabilities an…