This bulletin speaks to the major issue of providing equal opportunity for handicapped students through implementation of the program accessibility requirements of Section 504, Subpart C of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The purpose of this bulletin is to share significant highlights of a conference on "Barrier-Free Environments and the…

Presented are guidelines drawn from surveys of programs and services provided for handicapped persons in U.S. museums. An initial section which reviews literature on museum programs for handicapped visitors focuses on problems and misconceptions regarding blind, deaf, physically handicapped, learning disabled and emotionally disturbed, and…

This book consists of six chapters, each focusing on a different area of higher education law. It is devoted entirely to recent court cases involving colleges and universities and is intended to complement the "Yearbook of School Law," which deals with elementary and secondary education. Each chapter reviews and analyzes state supreme court and…

This report describes a practicum project that attempted to reduce apathy among students and parents of students at an inner-city junior high school. All seventh-grade students at the study school and some of their parents were selected as the target group. A support team composed of noninstructional school personnel and community representatives…

The bill is designed to amend the Public Health Service Act in order to revise and extend the programs of assistance under Title VII for training in the health and allied health professions, and to revise the National Health Service Corps scholarship training program. The bill details the exact additions and deletions to be made in the original…

The monograph reports on the University of Washington's School of Nursing involvement in the joint planning of a building to be shared by three educationally autonomous but administratively coordinated schools in a health sciences complex. The final product was a functional interdisciplinary unit capable of accommodating the schools of dentistry,…

This publication describes the 1973 legislative goals of state education associations throughout the U.S. and briefly summarizes educational legislation enacted from January through August 1973. Additional information on 1972 legislation is included for a few states where legislative sessions either ran late or resumed activities after September…

Among the principal insights developed by the Georgetown University Learning Resources Center (LRC) Planning Group during its period of activity was an understanding of the nature of the entire system of learning resources at Georgetown University of which the proposed LRC will be one of the major parts. In this paper all of the elements of the…

The conference was attended by more than 50 outdoor/environmental educators from the New York City school system and representatives from city and state agencies and the private sector. Focus was on how to make outdoor/environmental programs available to all children in the New York City schools. The bulk of the conference was devoted to the…

This chapter summarizes recent state supreme court and federal court decisions related to higher education. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1975 and reported in the General Digest as of March 1976. In his discussion, the author attempts to integrate related cases and to illuminate any unifying legal principles…

This study represents the first formal effort of the University of New Mexico (UNM) to develop an in-depth, long-range master plan for its Gallup Branch Community College (GBCC). It includes: (1) a description of the GBCC district (geography, culture, transportation, population projections, employment, and manpower needs); (2) a description of…

The Institutional Self Study (ISS) was administered to randomly selected students at Oakton Community College (OCC) in May 1972 and again in May 1973. Results were compared with results obtained in a national administration of the same instrument to community college students. Results indicated that OCC students valued academic and vocational…

School energy-saving strategies can be developed and implemented at three levels: (1) programmatic--the educational program and schedule of activities taking place at the school, (2) operational--how the facility and its supporting systems are run to house and support these educational activities, and (3) physical plant and its operating system.…

The purpose of this study was to establish more precisely what factors determine energy use in schools, to evaluate the efficiency of and necessity for these, and to make recommendations for the reduction of energy use. These recommendations will be applied to the design of specific projects that will be built, monitored, and evaluated. This…

This brief overview of the growing alternative school movement emphasizes those features of alternative schools that are of most interest to school administrators. There is some discussion of different forms of alternative schools that have been tried, but attention is mainly focused on the general characteristics common to most alternative…