The cost of providing adequate computer service is imposing an extraordinary strain on the budgets of many institutions of higher education, particularly small to medium sized institutions that do not have large, federally-funded research programs. They face 2 critical problems: (1) how to obtain sufficient computer services for student use so…

This is the report of the 1967 Conference of the Western Association of Graduate Schools. The first general session of the meeting dealt with the plight of the graduate dean and his lack of power in the graduate school. The second general session offered information concerning recent institutional research on graduate education including…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) summarizing the findings of the Committee on Social Science Research. Their investigations into student research revealed that whereas there was an increasing rate of registration for a Ph.D. degree, there was a parallel high incidence of dropouts; some 80% of candidates who…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report prepared by the Hungarian National Educational Institute in response to an IBE questionnaire. Under the Constitution, the young have equal rights to education without national, religious, or other discrimination. Nevertheless, many students, mainly from manual…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a draft setting out an education system for Yugoslavia to be considered by the Federal Assembly. The proposals are divided into six chapters: (1) current trends and developments in education; (2) socioeconomic foundations of educational development; (3) changes in the…

A questionnaire survey was conducted to determine whether or not the need for training in continuing education was perceived by those working in the field. This determination of need was undertaken to determine the feasibility of offering programs of professional preparation in continuing education for persons engaged in continuing education in…

To keep the nursing profession and other interested groups informed of the new provisions in nurse training legislation, this publication contains the complete text of Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act, as of November 18, 1971. Major provisions of the Act cover: (1) Grants for Expansion and Improvement of Nurse Training, (2) Assistance…

In 1971, a Maryland statute was enacted authorizing payment of state funds to any private institution of higher learning, except those awarding only seminarian or theological degrees. The aid is in the form of an annual fiscal year subsidy to qualifying colleges and universities, based upon the number of students, excluding those in seminarian or…

Guidelines detail the procedures for applications and proposals for project grants under Title I and III of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA)--grants intended to expand public library services, aid libraries for the institutionalized and handicapped, and support efforts at interlibrary cooperation. The guidelines provide: (1)…

Statistical data relating to the sociology and economics of the physics enterprise are presented and explained. The data are divided into three sections: manpower data, data on funding and costs, and data on the literature of physics. Each section includes numerous studies, with notes on the sources and types of data, gathering procedures, and…

Activities to date are summarized for the California Education Information System (CEIS), a data processing service which provides county and regional offices with a series of automated applications capable of meeting the majority of standard pupil and business information processing requirements. The following components are included: an outline…

The theme of this bicentennial perspective on American dance is "Heritage, Festival, Horizons." The heritage section highlights dance activities of colonial America; the festival section answers the question, "Why do we have cause to celebrate?"; and the horizon section presents some of what is happening now in dance and what…

Discussed is the development, history, and organization of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The book draws heavily on records of CASE and its predecessor organizations as well as on the speeches and writings of college and university presidents, trustees, deans, and other leaders in higher education. CASE represents all…

The author reviews predictions for personnel in higher education, reviews the state of the art and charts a course for the work to be done. (Editor)

In a survey discussion on the state of college newspapers the author observes that the campus press has at last shaken its radical image and returned to respectability: a preprofessional attitude by the staff, interest in investigative reporting, and a concern for the source of the next dollar. (JT)