In "Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium," the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB; 2005) calls on Catholic colleges and universities to work with diocesan educational leaders to prepare leaders for Catholic schools. In response, the Creighton University Education…

The Commission has started collecting data for the 2007 University Eligibility Study. This study is the latest in a series that began in 1966 to estimate the percentage of California public high school graduates who meet the admission requirements of the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC). California Education…

This official handbook, distributed during the conference, outlines the framework for themes, speakers, and planning, and identifies people involved in several aspects of the conference. Profiles of the 14 conference speakers are followed by a brief history of the conference and a description of the National Commission on Libraries and Information…

British Columbia's post-secondary Transfer System consists of all BC public institutions, Yukon College and those private institutions which have been approved to participate through a provincial quality assessment process. Within the Transfer System, smooth student mobility between institutions is supported by all partners. Articulation…

Criticizes the Carnegie Commission for failing to take sufficiently seriously the evidence that the American social and political fabric is badly torn. American colleges and universities are failing to create a common culture without which our future is dubious. (Editor)

Author suggests that educational planning is a continuing process rather than the drafting of an educational blueprint. (Author/RK)

This account of the creation of the Compact for Education and the Education Commission of the States, may cast some light upon an aspect of the politics of education which is not always highly visible but which may not be entirely atypical, either. (Author/MB)

Universities must evolve a process of institutional self-study before effective planning, program budgeting, governance and decisions affecting purpose and goals can be made.

The work of the Commission on Gender, Race, and Class in Teacher Education Programs is grounded in the belief that it is impossible to make sense of the field of English education without using gender, race, and class as central categories of description and analysis. Rather, gender, race, and class are basic to the study and understanding of the…

Consistent with the California Postsecondary Education Commission's higher education accountability framework, this report summarizes major findings and conclusions from three 2007 Commission reports assessing the contributions of postsecondary education to California's social, civic, and economic well-being. The Commission's research shows that…

As part of its work in developing an accountability framework for higher education, the Commission conducted an analysis of college-going rates in California. This analysis showed that: (1) California has serious inequities in access to higher education. College-going rates vary greatly depending on students' ethnicity, gender, and the type of…

This report for the College Opportunity Fund (COF) covers the first two fiscal years of the COF program, FY05-06, FY06-07. It describes the implementation efforts of COF program stakeholders, the statistics of participation in the program, and concerns of the program. COF enables qualifying resident students to use higher education tuition…

For the current study, institutions evaluated education and general (E&G) buildings on their campuses using an assessment format established in the original deferred maintenance study conducted in 1994. The joint study, "Deferred Maintenance, An Analysis of South Carolina's Facilities Portfolio," conducted by the Commission on Higher…

The middle grades are a time of change for adolescent learners. Middle schoolers are in the process of refining their social skills and their self-concept. They begin taking responsibility for their education and making decisions about their own learning. They start planning for college and careers, understanding for the first time how their…

This article compares two approaches to regional planning. In San Francisco, a citizen-initiated supra-agency was organized to prevent overdevelop ment of the coastline. The New York coastline, developed by one man, Robert Moses, is now victim of an inadequate and inefficient system of development that ecologically threatens the area. (MA)