Included in this newletter are the following titles: AACTE Responds to PL 94-142 in National Workshop; Public Law 94-142: A Call for a Profession with Values; Deans' Grants Institutions Initiate Change; and Organizational Perspectives: PL 94-142 and Inservice Personnel Development. References are provided. (DS)

This abstract bibliography cites recent ERIC documents and journal articles concerning the rights of children--in relation to the home, the school and other institutions--and advocacy for children. Entries include resumes from Resources in Education (RIE), January 1974 through December 1977, and citations from Current Index to Journals in…

Institutional racism remains a powerful force in American society, a reflection of the fact that the white majority which enjoys the benefits of racism is unable to see the destruction that racism works on others. Institutional racism is characterized by a set of organizational procedures, formal or informal, woven into the operational structure…

A review of the literature on the functions and responsibilities of the board of trustees in nonprofit organizations shows the following as major areas of responsibility: (1) determinatlon of agency policy and assumption of the ongoing role of monitoring performance against established policies; (2) allocation of the organization's resources,…

Status offenders are minors brought to the attention of courts because they are runaways, truants, or are considered ungovernable or incorrigible. This report assesses the costs and service impacts of deinstitutionalization of status offenders. The findings are based on case studies in 10 states. Included in this report are sections on the state…

The study shows that thoughtful communities can and have developed viable alternatives to detention for children in trouble--alternatives that are more humane than secure detention and present minimal risk to the community. The study's four program formats (residential and nonresidential) were roughly equal in their ability to keep both alleged…

Some 22,000 American Indian students requested assistance for higher education from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1973, but the BIA only had funds for 11,395 students. While funds theoretically were available from other sources, only 3,000 out of 12,000 eligible students were able to benefit from them. A cooperative agreement between the…

As part of a continuing examination of aspects of campus unrest, background, purpose and data information of the protest activity occurring during the academic year 1969-1970 was collected and used to analyze protest behavior and response. By recording all events in a single protest, as well as participants in each event, in sequential order,…

As background for the 1972 Education Amendments, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) was asked to look at whether a method of federal institutional aid could be developed that would still preserve the incentives of the states to fund higher education. It was concluded that such a method of financing could be…

This paper examines the values of society's basic institutions such as the family, the school, religion, business and government from the psychotherapist's point of view. Dr. Donald J. Tyrell states the problem: "the person suffers harm from the institution; he seeks help from the psychotherapist to undo the damage; he returns to the institutional…

A meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research opens with a training session dealing with priority issues for institutional research. Following a keynote address on the future of academe, papers are presented that focus on: (1) faculty profiles in college management; (2) development and use of student-quality life indicators;…

This document describes the Pennsylvania Competency-Based Teacher Education (PaCBTE) program and the Pennsylvania Competency-Assessment Certification (PaCAC) program and their relationship to teacher certification. The PaCBTE program is described as the state department of education's effort to assist colleges and universities in the transition to…

Should universities collaborate with trade unions and workers' education bodies? If so, how and why? These and other related questions were explored in a research project undertaken by the International Labour Office and provided the basis for a symposium held in Geneva, November 1973. This document summarizes the research findings, relevant…

This booklet contains a summary of the colloquium discussion including the major observations and recommendations, and three of the papers that were presented. The colloquium discussion focussed on a number of broad questions in relation to foreign graduate student programs: (1) prospects, assumptions, policies; and responsibilities from the…

Students are making increasingly strong efforts to exercise what they consider to be their rights, and it is becoming ever more crucial to define what these rights are and what the concept of "due process" means. This report explains the meaning of procedural due process: the concept of "dueness" and the student's "right" to due process. In…