The text of federal oversight hearings on Title III of the Institutional Aid Program is presented. Statements by various college administrators, higher education association representatives, and state legislators are included. The proposed regulations were issued pursuant to Title III of the Education Amendments of 1980. In addition to clarifying…

The issues, options, and procedures for annually measuring overall payment error in the Pell Grant program are specified in detail. Guidelines for establishing a definition of Pell Grant payment error are provided, and the design issues related to error measurement are examined. A comparison is made of options for selecting a study sample and for…

This document is a report of the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on the Vocational Education Act of 1984 (S. 2341). The report is organized in nine sections. The first three sections introduce the bill, provide background information on its intent and on the legislation that it was designed to replace (the Vocational Education…

A study was conducted to determine the feasibility of implementing a reporting system, the National Vocational Education Reporting and Accounting System (VEDS), for secondary vocational education in Wisconsin. As proposed by the National Center for Educational Statistics, the VEDS system is a comprehensive information collection package to provide…

In this sourcebook, nine contributors explore the issue of reduced resources for community colleges in the current period of decelerating growth. S. V. Martorana describes how public two-year institutions have become increasingly dependent on state and federal financial support, resulting in losses of college autonomy. W. Gary McGuire examines…

The history of college desegregation and federal funding to higher education is reviewed. Both the Morrill Act of 1890 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 fused the issues of federal aid and racial discrimination in higher education. Although the basic legal standards formulated in the decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and…

Regulatory cost impacts for 11 Texas colleges and universities for the 1977-78 academic year are presented as part of a continuing effort to assess the costs and impact of federally mandated social regulations. The 11 institutions are representative of each of the types previously reviewed as groups. For each institution, data are presented on the…

Using a case study approach, an eighteen-month review assessed the implementation of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) in thirty-seven prime sponsorships in twelve states. Most states showed progress in establishing a role for local educational agencies in the prime sponsor employment and training service matrix. But too…

The National Council on Vocational Education believes that the new Vocational Education Act should focus on the development of the human capital that is essential to any efforts to revitalize our nation's productivity. This will require program improvement for training and retraining in new high-technology occupations, access to programs by…

The rapid growth of student consumerism in higher education is examined, including increased litigation against colleges by students and expanded federal efforts to protect student interests by regulating institutions. The consequences on teaching and learning of the escalating competition for student customers is analyzed. Chapters discuss: the…

Fiscal issues in higher education are considered, based on four conferences attended by academic and business leaders. After an initial conference of college and life insurance company presidents at Princeton University in 1978, three regional meetings were held in Greensboro, North Carolina; Kalamazoo, Michigan; and Boston, Massachusetts.…

Vermont, the most rural state in the northeastern United States, can represent that area for consideration of the problems of rural vocational education. Nearly 21% of Vermont's work-aged population has vocational training. More than half of all high school juniors and seniors now enroll in vocational education programs, and new adult education…

This manual is designed to aid vocational education personnel in eliminating unlawful discrimination from vocational education programs, services, and activities. A mixed-media kit, it includes a user handbook, a set of transparency masters, and a set of audience handout masters. These components are formatted in question-and-answer style to…

Issues pertaining to increasing government regulation of higher education, monetary and nonmonetary costs of such regulation, and court cases and legislation that illustrate the academic autonomy versus governmental interference conflict are considered in this book by a circuit judge. It is suggested that although colleges and universities have…

Eight papers from a one-day conference for lawyers, judges, and policy-makers discuss the effects on intergovernmental relations of the emerging body of laws, regulations, and court decisions governing federal grants and their recipients. The expanding importance of federal grants, notes an introduction to the papers, has meant both less leeway…