An investigation and reevaluation of the traditional library committee composition, functions, and performance is made applying management principles and group interaction theory. (Author)

Discussed a report that considered how well a liaison committee has functioned between the AACJC and the ACCT. (RK)

Created in April of 1975, the Intra-Departmental Council on Indian Affairs constitutes an effort toward coordination, cooperation, and complementary utilization of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare resources with respect to American Indians. (JC)

Board of Education Action Motion No. 16 requires each school in the Cincinnati system to establish a discipline committee to establish a formal structure designed to encourage cooperative efforts between and among staff, students, parents, and other concerned citizens. The focus of these cooperative efforts is to improve pupil behavior. This…

Local New Jersey school districts must comply with a state requirement for providing a legally defined "thorough and efficient" (T & E) education. This process may be assisted by the formation of committees. Seven basic committee types are recommended in this document: steering, contextual information, goal development, educational…

Designed for use by the reference librarian in searching for congressional subcommittee publications with incomplete bibliographic information and/or too recent to be listed in the CIS Index or the Monthly Catalog, this index consists of two lists. The first is an alphabetical listing by name of each subcommittee and includes the name of the…

This annual report of the California-based Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, prepared for its second year of operation, covers (a) committee membership; (b) the committee structure; (c) licensing requirements, accomplishments, and plans; (d) membership on the examination advisory panel; (e) approved programs; (f) description,…

American industry, absorbing change at an accelerating rate and therefore changing rapidly in its manpower needs, is supplied by educational institutions largely blind to the need for change, since educators have not used long-term manpower forecasts as guides in continuing curriculum revision. Two kinds of advisory councils are: one whose duty is…

The Career Education Advisory Committee's primary objective was to review the progress of the Des Moines, Iowa, junior high schools in implementing career education into their curriculums. Ten junior high schools were visited and findings analyzed under the following general headings: (1) types of career education activities (redesigned curricula;…

The second report from the National Advisory Council contains recommendations with respect to comprehensive manpower legislation, Federal support for post-secondary institutions, and the position of vocational education in the administrative organization of the Federal government. The recommendations of the Council arose from concern for: (1)…

This final report provides a summary of the background, activities, and recommendations of the Assembly on University Governance at Syracuse University. Chapters cover events leading up to the Assembly, the preparatory commission, early proceedings of the governance Assembly and its committees, preparation and Assembly consideration of the…

This document describes the history, nature, purpose, and operation of committees assisting the government in matters lying generally within engineering or the physical, medical, and life sciences. Principal findings and recommendations presented in the first volume deal with the establishment and operation of committees; the identification,…

Article listed a pattern of errors which the candidate for an important career position should avoid when being interviewed by a screening committee. (Author/RK)

Describes how a "Committee on Composition" might go about involving high school teachers in all disciplines in the teaching of writing. (DD)

Characteristics of successful advisory committees are (1) institutional commitment and leadership; (2) a well-defined mission; (3) carefully selected members; (4) worthwhile agendas; and (5) recognition of member contributions. (SK)