The Action Committee for Higher Education--a coalition of 19 Washington-based higher education groups that serves as a national information clearinghouse on student aid, keeping students, parents, the news media, campus officials, and others informed about the Reagan Administration's student aid proposals--is described. (MLW)

The construction and staffing of a permanent Education Forum in Washington is advocated as a focal point for the sharing of information from research, policy studies, and administrative activities in many fields affecting education. It could achieve the immediate public results that a separate Department of Education, whose creation is beset by…

The Pacific Northwest International/Intercultural Education Consortium was formed as a means for colleges, universities, and community organizations to assist one another in bringing global perspectives to their curricula, in expanding their overseas programs, in improving their services to foreign students, and in nurturing international…