This paper examines the opportunities students from very poor or ethnic minority families have of obtaining financial assistance for a college education. The first section discusses the rapid increase in both numbers and proportion of college age youth who want to go to college. A significant part of this increase consists of students who did not…

This book is a summary of the basic admissions procedures and test requirements of member colleges of the College Entrance Examination Board. It is intended for students who are seeking admission in 1970. For each member college, information is summarized in six major categories: (1) required tests, (2) required test dates, (3) closing dates for…

Uncoordinated community day care efforts often result in an unbalanced availability of kinds of nursery school programs. Too much money is wasted on unnecessary administrative services, and training of personnel is not consistent in quality or quantity. Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) program tries to alleviate this confusion. This handbook…

A review is presented of the history and evolution of general obligation school bonds and capital outlay financing for public education. Following a discussion of past legislation of several states concerned with school borrowing, the evolution of school bonding is explained in terms of increased school financing from 1900 through 1958.…

One of the ironies of recent years has been the concurrent development of a growing public budget for higher education and a widening chorus of people who can't see any reason at all for subsidizing it. The purpose of this paper is to summarize briefly the issues in the debate and discuss in some detail the more neglected aspects of the case. The…

This document is a compilation of information about the more than 375 federal programs for postsecondary education--administered by about 23 government departments or agencies and supported by nearly $9.3 billion in 1972 federal expenditures. This directory is organized by alphabetical arrangement of federal departments and then of federal…

This document comments on the major points of the June 1973 Carnegie Commission Report "Higher Education: Who Benefits? Who Pays". It is suggested that an outstanding characteristic of the report is that it is full of contradictions. Many of its observations, generalized recommendations, and stated goals, are such as would command a general…

In recent years much attention has been focused on the subject of financial aid to college students. This report from the Board of Regents in New York is divided into two parts: a review of the current state programs and a study of the socioeconomic characteristics of current scholar incentive award holders and how they finance their education.…

In 1971-72 the South Carolina State Library prepared the South Carolina State Program for Library Development, 1972-1977 (ED 070 487). But the Administration's proposal to terminate Library Services and Construction Act funding resulted in the revision of the original program. This supplementary paper describes the goals and programs which were…

This document discusses concepts of a teacher education center and states that teacher education center programs include the following: (a) career-long teacher education, (b) cooperation and collaboration, (c) commitment to shared power, (d) pooling of resources, (e) field-based preservice teacher education, and (f) broader focus on in-service…

This speech reviews what Illinois has done in terms of public financial support for the private sector, what the Illinois Board of Higher Education recommends be done in the near future, and the issues that must be resolved. Illinois was one of the pioneer states in extending financial aid to private higher education institutions, beginning with…

U.S. Office of Education grants for 1972 in the field of environmental education are described briefly in this pamphlet. Grants were awarded in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Micronesia to promote a better understanding of the environment, the Nation's environmental problems, and the options for enhancing the…

An audit of the financial transactions of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is presented. The report begins with brief reviews of CPB's history, its corporate organization, and its program goals and corporate functions. Following these, summary statements of the corporation's total revenues, grant and program expenses, and accumulated…

These colleges today enroll only one in five of all American students in colleges and universities, and this proportion will become smaller in the years ahead. But they can continue to make significant contributions if they are given adequate public support. (MJM)

This report summarizes a 4-year effort to serve disadvantaged, high-risk students through appropriate college programs in the metropolitan St. Louis area. Project AHEAD (Associated Higher Education Assistance for the Disadvantaged) was aimed at the disadvantaged in an effort to find high-risk students in impoverished neighborhoods and provide them…