The University of California Research Management Improvement Project (RMIP) was initiated to point out federal requirements and their impacts on the educational institution. The findings are contained in nine separate reports covering case flow; environmental health and safety; federal procurement requirements; financial management: budgeting and…

Berea College is dedicated to providing an education to Appalachia's bright but poor students and to the goal of interracial education. In addition to a no-tuition policy, all students are given paying jobs. (Author/PG)

Author reasons that the results promised by planned change and policy science cannot replace purpose, that there are not enough talented people to provide alternative learning, and that accountability may drown in its own paperwork. Consensus may exist in the agreement that no organizing principle can be found. (Editor/PG)

Provides a brief history of the National Science Foundation. Discusses the personalities involved in its conception and foundation, the political process by which it was established, and the purposes and plans outlined in the initial stages of its development. (MLH)

The role of institutions for the handicapped in inservice and preservice preparation of professionals is considered. Among the training advantages offered at an institution are a varied population of handicapped persons (including multiple handicaps), a wide age range, the existence of an interdisciplinary staff, and opportunities for both…

In this position paper on affirmative action prepared by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights it is noted that the single most important occurrence in the evolution of equal employment law was the recognition by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Supreme Court of the U.S. that the mandate of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could…

This project proposal outlines a pilot project for meeting the educational goal that each individual shall acquire knowledge and appreciation of the environment and recognize personal responsibility for its quality. The project proposes to analyze the role of socio-technological change and problem-solving capabilities, and to compile and analyze…

This speaker looked at secondary education in the United States and made a number of generalizations concerning its history, the principles shaping it, its goals, and how these goals are chosen. Changes in secondary schools over the last fifteen years are examined in areas of educational goals, school size, and expenditures. Types of secondary…

Current issues in vocational education are explored in 12 articles written by present and former graduate students at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The titles of the articles are: 2001: A Vocational Education Odyssey; What Is This RAVE in Vocational Education?; Opportunity, Achievement, and Black Americans: A Challenge for…

This report is designed to assist the personnel of organized teacher centers in instituting the School Based Teacher Educators program. The first section explores some basic assumptions and general principles underlying the concept of teacher centering as it is currently being employed, including collaboration, governance, societal role, diversity…

Discussion of educational reform/renewal involves consideration of the institutional characteristics of schooling. Schools have underlying patterns of conduct, belief, and values that provide meaning to the ongoing activities of learning. These patterns and assumptions of school life have tended to produce standardized educational experiences,…

The university-connected research foundation is a separately incorporated unit that serves as a legal entity for administering sponsored research and related programs for a parent university. Fifty-seven organizations presently operating in this manner have been identified, and this study is a characterization and analysis of these organizations…

Psychologists who choose work as members of counseling agencies are likely to experience some dissonance between what their individual interests and skills would have them do professionally and what they are asked to do as a staff member of the agency. Conversely, as a component of a larger institution or community, an agency's very existence may…

The authors examine the historical context and current implications of four questions: (1) What is the relationship of land grant universities to agrarian discontent? (2) What was the Wisconsin Idea? (3) What is "public service"? and (4) What views of knowledge predominated in the early days? The land grant university was central as a cause/effect…

The value of the college counseling center has been to symbolize the concern for students of the basically depersonalized institutional bureaucracy. The center has permitted others on campus to avoid becoming involved with students. By localizing the problems which are presented by clients within the clients themselves, counselors defuse any…