There is no doubt that eProcurement technology has turned cumbersome paper-based processes into highly connected online systems. The most basic parameters of eProcurement range from shopping for or sourcing goods, to creating purchase requisitions and getting them approved, to placing orders with suppliers, to receiving invoices--all…

Operating under a grant, the University for Man (UFM) in Manhattan, Kansas, tested the transferability of the UFM free university/community education model using four existing statewide delivery systems (public libraries, a private college consortium, a state cooperative extension service, an office of rural affairs) in five states: Kentucky,…

The final report of a state-funded project to improve instruction in critical foreign languages in the southeast quadrant of Missouri gives a detailed description of the project and its results. The project included establishment of a foreign language information clearinghouse to (1) collect demographic data about the breadth and depth of foreign…