The proceedings of the first Assembly of the American Association of Community and Junior colleges are provided. Discussion focused on the availability of educational opportunity for all. This book is a compilation of the background papers and the Assembly report. Papers are: "Student Constituencies/ Real and Potential"; "The Future Student at…

These two volumes comprise the official proceedings of the second White House Conference on Aging, held November 28-December 2, 1971. Volume I includes an overview of the Conference plan--its background, concepts, organization, and programming. It presents the contributions made by speakers at the General Sessions and Conference Delegate…

Since half of Finland is sparsely populated, the Finland National Board of Education has initiated a preschool project for sparsely populated areas. Project goals are defined as the acquisition through research, experiment, and planning of information relative to sparsely populated areas and special problems of distance, small population base,…

A workshop, Current Trends in Information Delivery, held in December 1974, was attended by 337 librarians, including Joseph Becker from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS) who spoke about the national library network which NCLIS is proposing; Gerald Newton of the California State Library who spoke on library…

To determine the attitudes of industrial arts educators throughout the nation toward a more uniform nationwide curriculum for industrial arts, an opinionnaire was completed by 130 of 150 selected industrial arts department chairmen of colleges and universities, by 36 of the 50 state industrial arts supervisors or consultants, and by 194 (88…

The 1968 Manpower Report of the President stressed the seriousness of youth unemployment in the United States, especially when compared with other countries. This paper surveys the transition of teenagers from school to work in countries economically and politically similar to the United States. Allowing for differences in certain significant…

These collected papers discuss uses and limitations of programed instruction in adult basic education; a national French inservice scheme for preparing teacher educators and training vocational teachers at the secondary school programs; the application of specific behavioral sciences in France by various occupational groups in several forms of…

The goals of population education are to help children understand, and act in accordance with, the impact of population characteristics on an international, national, and individual plane. It has been only within the last ten years that countries have paid systematic attention to the development of educational programs. The specific form of these…

The author comments on the lack of sufficient interest in the education of Indians and Eskimos in Canada. Although he feels that the process of the acculturation of the Indian into white society is "ongoing, irreversible, and destined to continue no matter what anyone desires," it is "neither the task nor the prerogative of the…

This study supplementing a 1967 study of Arizona State University, recommends preliminary plans for the design of a national training center capable of accommodating 2,200 fliers and aviation technicians and the steps that should be taken to complete the facility by September 1972. Specific recommendations are: (1) negotiations between the…

This report contains hearings before the 93rd Congress on the Community School Center Development Act, contained in bills H.R. 972, H.R. 6697, and H.R. 10049. The purpose of the act is to provide recreational, educational, and a variety of other community and social services through the establishment of community schools. The report contains the…

The Microfilm Committee of the International Council on Archives grew out of various international meetings which began in 1966 with a congress on "Archives for Scholarship--Encouraging Greater Ease of Access." Meetings since then have resulted in recommendations that (1) archives and records should be fully microfilmed and widely…

A comprehensive, new national policy for cable communications is recommended by the Cabinet Committee on Cable Communications. The goal of the policy is to achieve the orderly integration of cable with other existing communications media so that information may flow freely, protected from both private and governmental barriers. The first two…

This survey paper will deal with the form and possible explanations of Colombia's urban diversity; the conscious effort to encourage it which is taking place both in the national government and in the regions and cities themselves; with the international interest in the phenomenon and the supportive efforts which follow; and with the relatively…

The first two parts of the report describe some attributes of the information process and of various information handling systems. Recommendations to the technical community include: (1) The technical community must recognize that handling of technical information is a worthy and integral part of science; (2) The individual author must accept more…