Procedures are presented for use in reporting costs for institutions of higher education in Illinois. Following the definition of various accounting functions, the scope of the cost and statistical report is delimited, and specifications are presented for the collection of data on students, courses, academic faculty records, and academic faculty…

An adult basic education manual prepared for use in Missouri, contains regulations, bulletins, and forms used in the state program. Among other things it includes information on teacher qualifications, personnel classification, selection and preparation of teachers, budgets and expenditures, instructional materials and equipment, and program…

The role which recreation as an industry can play in economic development of an area -- through creation of jobs, generation of incomes, and stimulation of public and private investment -- is the primary concern of this 1966 study. The document establishes the tourism-recreation industry as being resource-based, with enterprises which are mainly…

The development of Indian education in the State of New York is traced starting with the state assuming responsibility for Indian education in 1846 and ending with the 1968-69 school year. Initial provisions for Indian children are presented with cost and enrollment figures. Key legislation is produced, and the various administrative personnel are…

This report is a brief summary of the history of Federal Day Care provisions through the sixties and an analysis of the child care legislation pending in Congress during 1971. The 92nd Congress, in attempts to answer the growing demands for Federally-sponsored child care, introduced four separate bills dealing with child care financing: HR. 1…

The evolution of public school financing systems has traced the concern of equal access to dollars to opportunities for equal education which recognizes individual needs or deficiencies to questioning whether schooling makes a difference. The authors provide empirically based data supporting the necessity of equity in the allocation of State…

This report covers the per student expenditures related to instruction for the 1970-71 academic year by Washington institutions of higher education. A summary of findings indicate: (1) In the 4-year institutions, instructional costs per student increased sharply as the level of instruction increased from the lower division to the graduate levels.…

Twenty descriptive case studies of computer applications in a variety of libraries are presented in this book. Computerized circulation, serial and acquisition systems in public, high school, college, university and business libraries are included. Each of the studies discusses: 1) the environment in which the system operates, 2) the objectives of…

The report consists of computer printouts by State of statistical data compiled from State annual reports. Programs were financed by Federal, State, and local funds and were conducted under the approved State plan for vocational education. Twenty-four of the tables relate to expenditures, three to the number of teachers, one to teacher training,…

The two-volume report (Part A is ED061999 and Part B is ED065136), which included data received by the tabulation deadline from libraries of single-campus institutions and branch-campus libraries of multicampus institutions, presented individual reports for 2,514 libraries and 5 joint libraries. To preserve comparability with previous surveys,…

Excerpts from four documents on national education policy are reprinted in this newsletter. The two papers written in English include the United Kindgom's government white paper, "Education: A Framework for Expansion," and a summary of the report of Sweden's U68 Committee on Higher Education. The other two papers are written in French…

As a result of administrative and legislative pressures brought to simultaneously increase out-of-state fees and limit the number of nonresident students, based on the feeling that they do not pay their own way, the study was conducted to: (1) determine the total money payment to Northwest Missouri State University, the State of Missouri and to…

This report shows in detail how cost analysis of educational programs has been used at the junior college level. The primary objective of the National Junior College Finance Study is to determine the cost of educating a student in a specified curriculum and to utilize these data to demonstrate the relationship of the unit cost of each of several…

The Palm Beach County Library System is evaluated for its program to date and for its existing public library resources in the County. Population trends are examined and a realistic program for the development of library services over a six-year period is recommended. The estimated costs for implementation of these recommendations are outlined in…

Twenty-four expenditure variables were correlated with achievement scores on the Iowa Test of Educational Development to find out how various types of expenditures were related to educational quality. The expenditure variables (instructional cost, operating cost less transportation, and total costs) were used as numerators in a fraction. The…