Higher education is beset from all sides by criticism, fear, doubt, uncertainty, and prophecies of doom. While the young call for change, the faculty often resist anything that might reduce their privileges and prerogatives. Before alternative models to the present system of higher education can be considered, it is useful to question present…

The determination of a philosophy and specific objectives of college reading are necessary for the organization, administration, testing, diagnosis, instruction, selection and use of materials, and evaluation of college reading programs. A tenable, working definition for a philosophy of college reading includes (1) that every college student can…

This plan outlines the proposed development of the University of Missouri for the next 10 years. The discussion includes the general organization of the 4-campus University, its responsibilities, the roles to be filled by the individual campuses, and an assessment of the needs of the various disciplines and divisions as the University responds to…

Educators are challenged to assume as an educational goal for the decade of the 1970's the assurance that no one shall leave school without the skill and the desire to read to the full limits of his capacity. An appeal for a total national commitment to this goal is made to all educational institutions, legislative bodies, and civic and industrial…

'Teaching in IPI' is an introductory program designed to equip the teacher with the basic skills required to plan and conduct IPI in the classroom. It comprises five volumes, of which this--divided into two sections: An Overview of Individualized Instruction and IPI, and Behavioral Objectives and the IPI Mathematics Continuum--is the first.…

This paper suggests that the variety of decision making proposed by Professor Lortie will not afford the luxury of evaluative systems of the kind he describes. Professor Gordon feels that, had Professor Lortie pursued a line of functional analysis of many outcomes, he would have arrived at an entirely new analysis of the justification for…

The purpose of this guide is three-fold: a) to provide administrators and teachers with an awareness of the need for a pupil assessment system geared to the curricula of the school, b) to provide direction and resource information to school personnel in developing a pupil assessment system, and c) to provide a schema which will actively involve…

The National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education (NCFPE) developed a comprehensive analytical framework--a process--to evaluate the alternative financing proposals for postsecondary education. This staff report describes this framework, placing special emphasis on two of its major components--a data base and an analytical model.…

During the period from January 19, 1972 to July 19, 1973, the Portland, Oregon, schools involved in Project Career Exploration 7-10 (PCE7-10) have focused on the goal of providing for every student in grades 7-10 the opportunity to explore, through hands-on experiences, many jobs found in broad families of occupations, with the aim of enabling…

The position paper briefly outlines seven aspects of career education: (1) justice and equality, (2) the State goal, (3) competency-based credentialing, (4) curriculum, (5) services to students, (6) teacher education, and (7) Florida's position. (NH)

An attempt is made to determine whether a procedure requiring each member of a rating group to rank a subset of fifteen goals selected at random from one hundred and six goals would produce results that were, in effect, equivalent to having each member of a rating group rate each of the one hundred and six goals. The ratings of the one hundred and…

The aim of education should be total utilization of the abilities of the entire population. Career education must start early enough for the child to prepare his skills for the world of work. A structured career exploration curriculum is divided into awareness, orientation, simulation, and development. The first step, awareness, is designed to…

This publication examines the purposes and functions of policy as a conceptual focus for the problems and issues of higher education. Emphasis is placed on the conceptual difficulties of policy, distinctive features of policy, and policy functions and issues. The major contention suggests that the purpose of policy is to provide a general…

Career education is gaining acceptance as a way of making education more relevant and more human. There are five levels to the approach: Grades K-6 deals with career awareness; 7-9 provides occupational information and career exploration; 10-14 is concerned with job placement and specialized career education; the post-secondary level involves…

Accountability is being required of all America's institutions of higher education. Gallaudet College, an institution for the deaf in Washington, D.C., feels it has found a solution to the accountability problem in the use of "measurable objectives" in its program planning. The first phase from January 1 through June 30, 1972 of…