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Rosenfeld, Stuart A. – 1999
Two-year institutions of higher education have, in many ways, been anomalies in America's educational enterprise. Vocational education studies and assessments completed in 1981, 1989, and 1994 have all treated postsecondary vocational education primarily as more advanced versions of secondary programs and minimized the differences. Compared to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Impact, Educational Policy, Federal Government
National Partnership for Reinventing Government, Washington, DC. – 1999
This report provides an overview of a federal initiative, entitled Access America for Students, which is designed to re-engineer the way training and educational services are delivered to students. Part of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, the initiative's major objectives are to implement privacy and security processes for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Adult Education, Continuing Education
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Student Financial Assistance. – 2000
This CD-ROM contains a simulated conversation between a counselor at the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid Information Center and a student inquiring about financial assistance. Following an introductory track providing contents information, each track contains a section answering a different question about federal student loans. The…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Federal Aid
Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Washington, DC. – 2000
This report discusses issues related to distance learning in higher education. Section 1, "The Expanding Universe of Distance Learning," examines: data from a new national survey on higher education distance learning; Internet access in elementary and secondary schools; the 1999 national survey of information technology in higher…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Copyrights, Distance Education
Reid, Seerley – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
This catalog supplements and brings up to date the information contained in "U.S. Government Films for Public Educational Use," Bulletin 1955, No. 1 of the Office of Education. It lists and describes 550 "new" films--1955 and 1956 productions, earlier films released for U.S. public use in 1955 or 1956, and some pre-1955 films…
Descriptors: Educational History, Catalogs, Federal Government, Public Agencies

Shaw, Greg M. And Others – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1996
Maintains that, although some presidential documents are available only online (Internet and facsimile White House transmissions during the health care reform campaign), online resources are often incomplete and occasionally inaccurate. Provides examples of both. Recommends researchers utilize both electronic and print resources. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Federal Government, Government Publications, Higher Education
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
Proposed federal fiscal 1998 budget allocations are presented, including general changes in Education Department and other agency appropriations from the previous year and dollar amounts of appropriations for student assistance, graduate support, institutional assistance, aid to the disadvantaged, educational research and statistics, aid to…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Art, Budgets, Civil Rights
Relyea, Harold C.; Halchin, L. Elaine; Hogue, Henry B.; Agnew, Grace; Martin, Mairead; Schottlaender, Brian E. C.; Jackson, Mary E. – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 2003
Theses five reports address five special issues: the effects of the September 11 attacks on information management, including homeland security, Web site information removal, scientific and technical information, and privacy concerns; federal policy for electronic government information; digital rights management and libraries; library Web portal…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries, Employment Projections

Cohen, William S.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1992
Presents testimony by representatives from several federal agencies and one national organization (W. S. Cohen, C. Levin, P. Vidmar, J. M. McGinnis, L. J. Kolbe, B. J. Nelsen, D. Ravitch, and M. Corry). (SM)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Health, Disease Control, Early Intervention

Harley, Bruce L.; Knobloch, Patricia J. – Government Publications Review, 1991
Describes a project at Stanford University Library that was initiated to enhance user access to government documents collections by developing a prototype natural language computer-based aid. The development of an expert system, Government Documents Reference Aid (GDRA), is explained, and the application of expert systems in libraries is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Appropriate Technology, College Libraries, Comparative Analysis

Winston, Judith A. – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1991
Challenges to civil rights and affirmative action in the 1990s are identified. Five cases of racial, sex, ethnic, and reverse discrimination behind the Civil Rights bills of 1990 and 1991 are discussed. The ultimate challenge is to demonstrate that if civil rights litigants win, others need not lose. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
Black Issues in Higher Education, 1993
An interview with the federal secretary of education, Richard W. Riley, covers the new administrator's policy goals, strategies for educational reform, perceptions of the federal role in education, approaches that differ from previous administrations', solutions for disadvantagement, and attitudes about free speech. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, Cultural Pluralism

Hartle, Terry W. – Educational Record, 1996
The Republican proposal to cut the federal student loan program is examined, and some of the other challenges and changes likely to be faced by higher education due to Republican politics are outlined, including appropriations for discretionary programs, welfare and immigration reform, social and economic policy issues affecting the middle class,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Budgets, Change Strategies, Federal Aid

Eaton, John L.; Huff, Betty J. – College and University, 1996
A discussion of the current status of the German system of higher education looks at its relationship to federal and state governments, its administrative organization, problems (particularly in the eastern states) and areas where reform is needed, availability of student services, and the significance for the system as a whole of social and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Education, Economic Change, Educational Change
Trinkaus-Randall, Gregor – Journal of Archival Organization, 2005
In October 2001, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act to strengthen the ability of the U.S. government to combat terrorism. Unfortunately, some sections of the Act strike at core values and practices of libraries and archives, especially in the areas of record keeping, privacy, confidentiality, security, and access to the collections. This article…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, National Security, Archives, Confidentiality