Activities, results, and recommendations of a 2-year effort to implement and test a model for vocational and occupational education planning in Illinois are described. An introductory section presents an overview of the rationale and plan for establishing a Regional Occupational Education Coordinating Council composed of representatives of the…

This 1978 report on the model regional open learning system of the University of Mid-America (UMA), Lincoln, Nebraska, summarizes the activities of the following program areas: course development, delivery, research and dissemination, and governance and administration. Descriptions are provided of courses in the following stages of development:…

This study is a component of the New York State School Finance Law Study Project conducted by the New York State Education Department (SED). The tasks addressed are in the areas of district reorganization, supplying regional educational services, and the impact of existing Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) aid on local districts.…

A rationale is presented for the establishment of a comprehensive skills center designed to provide low-cost, vocational training that would enable the unskilled and unemployed population of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to fill area manpower needs. The report first compares the present composition of the county work force with the manpower needs of…

This is a report of the ACCESS (Alternative Comprehensive Community Environmental Study System), a prototype program in democratic policy making at the regional level. Presented first is a discussion of the relationship between science, technology, and regional policy and the use of visual communication for regional policy making. The second…

In Britian, national library planning does not attempt to provide a detailed central plan for all library development; rather it focuses on a limited range of crucial issues: the provision of appropriate legislative, institutional, and financial structures for broad library service. The Public Libraries and Museums Act of 1964 charged both…

The job development, job placement, and follow-up program reported on is an exemplary project in vocational education that includes 10 cooperating high schools located in a three-county area. The program is designed to prepare high school seniors and early school leavers to make positive transition from school to suitable employment or…

This publication describes the Midwestern Higher Education Commission and its programs, lists its commissioners and reproduces the compact that established it. A description of the commission notes that its member states are Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin; and that it is an instrument of the…

A survey sought information concerning the coordination of programs and services among agencies involved in job training, vocational education, and related services in Virginia. One mailing of the survey was made to 369 individuals (231 responded) in 7 groups of agencies: Job Training Partnership Act service delivery areas, dislocated worker…

After an introductory section which points out that the responsibility of small and rural schools is to provide all children with a quality education, and that Boards of Education must decide what is best for all children in the community, the paper briefly describes 16 exemplary programs involving cooperation between school districts. The…

Faculty development projects funded by the Northwest Area Foundation are described. While some projects addressed retrenchment and the nature and structure of academic careers, others involved multi-institutional strategies. Types of projects and institutions are: new teaching and administrative competencies (College of Saint Scholastica, Mary…

Proceedings of the 1977 annual Pacific Northwest Conference on Higher Education meeting in conjunction with the Academic Affairs Administrators of the Northwest Region are presented. Among the conference presentations were the following: an address of instructional development and other academic services by Kenneth Eble and a panel discussion on…

New Canadian minority students, ages 6-16 were the subjects of this study on evaluation practices, educational policies, and placement procedures. The term denotes immigrants of West Indian, East Indian, or Portuguese origin, or other non-Anglo-Saxon background. Structured interviews were conducted with 34 Ontario boards of education and with 245…

Project DELTA (Design for Equity: Leadership, Training, Attitudes) at Wichita State University was funded by the Women's Educational Equity Act to develop an exportable model for enhancing the entry of women into, and the advancement of women within, leadership and decision-making roles in higher education. The project employed a capacity-building…

The current trends in college student migration and implications for higher education are discussed. Declining trends in interstate migration are rapidly limiting institutional diversity by increasing the homogeneity of student bodies. Diversity of experience and education has been noted as fostering and strengthening individual, institutional,…