This report discusses the various interpretations of the external degree concept, its potential impact on American higher education, and how an urban university may expand and improve its delivery systems to a larger variety of student populations on a sound financial basis. Areas covered include: prospective students; experience with home study…

The bulletin of Empire State College, New York's non-residential college, describes the organization of the decentralized college, its educational philosophy and innovative educational program. The College's plan calls for a network of regional learning centers located within reasonable commuting distance for most New York state residents.…

In the spring of 1969 a new major program was begun at the State University of New York at Buffalo in which students were allowed to design their own majors if they elected to do so. All majors were to be approved by 2 faculty members and a Special Major Committee. The question arose as to how graduate and professional schools would react to this…

The educational policies and programs of the Pathet Lao are examined in some detail in this report. The first section looks generally at the colonial legacy and present context. Because of the meager resources made available for education under the French and the deprived conditions prevailing in what became the Pathet Lao zone, educational policy…

Reported were descriptive data concerning identification audiometry (hearing screening) and special educational programs for the hearing impaired. Data were provided in tabular format for each state in the country and the District of Columbia. Hearing screening program data included extent of coverage, grade or ages covered annually, year and…

This diary presents the personal experiences and observations of an intern in an open classroom located in an inner-city London school. The school was based on the following principles: 1) All young children learn by self-selected experience; 2) All young children need a wide variety of experience in all expressive areas; 3) Learning should occur…

This paper describes the three phases in the evolution of the Mount Royal College (Canada) Learning Assistance Program, beginning with the clinical approach (1969), moving to a credited class structure (1970), and finally to the present non-credit workshop approach (1971). The Learning Assistance Program was established to help students needing…

This report is the result of a study, funded by the National Science Foundation, of a group constituted as the COSINE Task Force on Undergraduate Education in Computer Engineering in 1969. The group was formed in response to the growing demand for education in computer engineering and the limited opportunities for study in this area. Computer…

Data were obtained on the activities and attiudes of 48 associate members and 229 commercial exhibitors at county and district fairs. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect the data. Analysis of the data showed that most associate members had participated in more than one county or district fair in 1970, but less than one-fifth had…

The objectives of this project to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of American Indian education through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) were (1) a system analysis of the BIA schools to identify educational goals and objectives and the critical factors contributing to or impeding eeducational effectiveness in achieving the goals; (2)…

This program guide, prepared by representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, plant operations, vocational-technical schools, professional associations, and universities, is the first of a two-volume series and provides an overall statement of the criteria for the selection of institutions as training facilities for wastewater…

The study of the divisional concept, a residential model to intensive programing for optimal resident development, reported on effectiveness of intensive, specialized treatment programs on growth and development of retarded residents and compared effectiveness of four divisional or intensive, specialized treatment approaches to single, large…

Letters of transmittal, explanation of authorization and duties of the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children, and a list of members of the committee as of June 30, 1970, precede a summary of the committee's recommendations, a review of activities of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, a review of new program developments,…

This document describes a summer institute held at Northwestern University during the summer of 1970 entitled Institute in African Studies for College Teachers. The program of instruction that was devised had 4 principal objectives in mind: (1) transmission of accurate information and data about African and Afro-American culture and society; (2)…

An external degree is one granted on the basis of academic work undertaken through independent and flexible study and pursued in whole or in part outside of the framework of existing college and university courses. A person's qualifications for an external degree are measured not by a list of accumulated formal courses taken and passed, but by an…