Section 1 of this report on programs for the disadvantaged in the Oregon State System of Higher Education defines the term disadvantaged and summarizes the barriers to higher education experienced by them. The next section reviews briefly the values that underlie the development of these programs and suggests some issues that must be considered in…

In the last decade, industrial arts departments have come to serve a comprehensive "industrial technology" function by giving greater attention to the technical aspects of industrial education. This comprehensive report focuses on current trends and conditions and likely future developments in industrial arts and industrial technology in the nine…

The Colorado Commission on Higher Education was created in 1965 to help provide a unified and long-range view of higher education in the state and help devise a structure of higher education that would be responsive to a changing educational system, social needs and pressures. This report, which reviews the history and functions of the Commission,…

This special study of higher education in the Boston metropolitan area was one of several efforts to evaluate the present total system of higher education in the state. These studies will be the bases for the formulation of a comprehensive state plan for public higher education. The purpose of this study was (1) to develop reasonable estimates of…

In this brief report on higher education in the state, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission recommends that: (1) the state continue to increase college opportunities and provide higher education for the same percentage of youth as the national average by 1975; (2) public institutions be prepared to cope with vast increases in enrollment; (3)…

During recent years, the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) have had problems applying and enforcing a law (Illustration 7) affirming that state funds be left entirely to the jurisdiction of the institutional governing board after they have been appropriated. After alleged violations by state…

The nation's principal state universities and land-grant colleges in this latest survey of tuition, room, and board charges seems to be committed to holding down student charges. This new survey shows the median charge for tuition and required fees for a state resident attending a major state university or land-grant college during the 1974-75…

This document, an outgrowth of the national conference of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education held in 1971, sets forth the views of lawyers and educators concerning the legal, economic, and institutional implications of faculty collective bargaining. Part I, principles and practices of collective bargaining, discusses legal principles of…

This report covers the per student expenditures related to instruction for the 1970-71 academic year by Washington institutions of higher education. A summary of findings indicate: (1) In the 4-year institutions, instructional costs per student increased sharply as the level of instruction increased from the lower division to the graduate levels.…

Some of the purposes of this Uniform Accounting Manual for the public junior colleges in Illinois are to provide the following: (1) guidelines for establishing a sound financial accounting system; (2) information on policies, procedures, and forms necessary to meet legal requirements of the State of Illinois for the public junior colleges; (3) a…

The leadership role of the State must be to assure access for all of its citizens to a quality education. This is an all-encompassing role, and it includes many factors. An important factor is that States must support the low-tuition principle in colleges and universities. The best student aid program ever devised is low-tuition. Closely related…

The five objectives of this paper are: (1) to make some observations about the California Community Colleges, (2) to state appropriate goals to be accomplished by a system of public education, (3) to relate these goals to alternative options in possible changes in governance of public education, (4) to relate these goals to possible changes in the…

This report covers the results of a four-part survey designed to update the survey "Delaware Higher Education in the Seventies-1971 Update" in the three areas of enrollment projection, space inventory and space utilization. Also examined is the current development of the long-range facilities plan for each campus. The report recommends that the…

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Kentucky Revised Statutes contain many general provisions under which the institutions and programs of public higher education along with the various other state agencies and programs are administered in Kentucky. Chapters 164 and 165 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, however, contain those…

The report of a study undertaken for long-range planning and evaluation is in two parts. Part One reviews the institution's academic goals (including an historical overview, statement of educational purpose, and a listing of instructional programs, requirements, and curriculum offerings). Part Two contains five-year projections for curriculum…