Financial aid practices identified as warranting improved and/or more consistent administration on the institutional level are examined. The following areas were selected for study because of their emergence as sources of conflicting or inefficient management practices from institution to institution: the role of the financial aid office in the…

The Center for Career Development Services in Tallahassee, Florida, recently updated and revised its Job Related Physical Capacities Project (JRPC). The project provides career information as well as specialized information about how disabled persons can expect their handicaps to influence their occupational choices and how the handicap can be…

How to locate information that can be used in career decision making is the subject of this digest. The first section lists the career/occupational information collections generally found in public libraries, including printed resources, information about associations, information about local sources of job information, information on specific…

Pursuant to Section 204 of House Resolution 988, 93rd Congress, this annotated inventory of private organization information resources available to the House of Representatives is part of a larger project intended to study the information needs and problems of the House in relation to existing institutions and services. Private sector…

Seven pilot New York State Education Information Centers (EICs) were established in 1980 to provide comprehensive information referral and advisory services to adults and out-of-school youth on education, job, and career-related topics. The EICs are located in Brooklyn, Harlem, Hempstead, White Plains, Plattsburgh, Syracuse, and Jamestown. Last…

These two documents describe developments and methods of information dissemination which have contributed to strengthening educational reform in Peru since 1972. Educational developments discussed include: (1) decentralization of school administration with increased community participation; (2) a policy calling for the implementation of…