The Coordinating Board for Higher Education (CBHE) and the Missouri Department of Higher Education (MDHE) present this Annual Report of accomplishments, benchmarks and statistics related to Missouri higher learning for Fiscal Year 2011. This report provides a snapshot of the issues, policies and goals considered by the CBHE during the 2011 fiscal…

Federal education policy in recent years has encouraged state and local education agencies to embrace data use and analysis in decision-making, ranging from policy development and implementation to performance evaluation. The capacity of these agencies to make effective and methodologically sound use of collected data for these purposes remains an…

Discusses a study that examines department chairs' beliefs about the role of faculty in departmental governance and the characteristics of an ideal governance structure. Concludes that faculty's key role is helping clarify the administrators' responsibilities, and that faculty members should be rewarded for their participation and empowered to…

Analyzes both the policy and planning questions (purpose, audience, participation) in developing a forum for departmental communication, as well as the technical issues in constructing Web sites and newsletters to enhance departmental communication. (JDI)

This document is comprised of articles of agreement by and between the County of Rensselaer and the Board of Trustees of Hudson Valley Community College as co-employers and the Hudson Valley Community College Department chairpersons Faculty Association ("association"). The contract addresses topics such as requirements of legislative…

As assessed in 1989, the prior quarter of a century had seen community colleges emerge from the shadow of elementary and secondary education governance. This document notes several changes in the types of state-level boards and agencies that coordinate or govern public community colleges. Between 1989 and 1996 the only net changes in state-level…

Part 1 of the education directories for 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939 covers federal and state education agencies. U.S. Department of Interior Office of Education officials, principal state school officers, and county and other local superintendents are listed. Part 2 lists principal city school officers and Catholic parochial school superintendents.…