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Osborn, John E. – American School & University, 2006
Colleges and universities face a wide range of environmental risk. In spite of this, with proper planning, they can avoid emergencies or surprises. Advanced planning, coupled with strategic, technical environmental and legal advice, enable higher-education institutions to keep their environmental budgets under control and predictable. This article…
Descriptors: Hazardous Materials, Risk Management, Risk, Higher Education
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Deveaugh-Geiss, Joseph; March, John; Shapiro, Mark; Andreason, Paul J.; Emslie, Graham; Ford, Lisa M.; Greenhill, Laurence; Murphy, Dianne; Prentice, Ernest; Roberts, Rosemary; Silva, Susan; Swanson, James M.; van Zwieten-Boot, Barbara; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wagner, Karen Dineen; Mangum, Barry – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To give academic researchers, government officials, and industry scientists an opportunity to assess the state of pediatric psychopharmacology and identify challenges facing professionals in the field. Method: Increased federal spending and the introduction of pediatric exclusivity led to large increases in pediatric psychopharmacology…
Descriptors: Safety, Psychiatry, Mental Disorders, Research Needs
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. – 1995
This document presents witness testimony and supplemental materials from a Congressional hearing regarding reform to national telecommunications policy, namely, replacing a regime of heavy regulation with a true market system. Statements are featured by Senators John Ashcroft, Conrad Burns, Ernest Hollings, Kay Baily Hutchison, John D. Rockefeller…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consumer Protection, Federal Regulation, Free Enterprise System
Office of Postsecondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1992
This document explains the recognition of accrediting institutions in the United States by the Secretary of Education. Preliminary information on accreditation in the United States covers the functions of accreditation, the overall accrediting procedure, types of accreditation, and nongovernmental coordinating agencies. A section on national…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Educational Quality
Puerto Rico State Dept. of Education, Hato Rey. Area for Vocational and Technical Education. – 1992
This curriculum guide begins with an introduction, course description, and description of the occupation of commercial fish farmer. A course outline covers five units: starting a business, establishing the fish farm, managing the enterprise, harvesting the fish, and administering the business. For each unit, the following are provided: terminal…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Curriculum Guides, Economics, Farm Management
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of the Secretary. – 1992
New guidelines to provide more flexibility and certainty in meeting federal time distribution recordkeeping requirements for U.S. Department of Education programs are outlined in this document. Directed to state, local and Indian tribal governments, the new guidelines are expected to avoid audit appeals and disputes, freeing teachers and…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1991
Testimony concerning Senate Bill 1595 includes statements submitted by Senator Daniel Inouye, from the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, and S. Timothy Wapato, Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services. The bill in question aims to preserve and enhance the ability of Alaska Natives to speak and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Diachronic Linguistics, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
This report presents information on the Student Loan Marketing Association's (Sallie Mae) activities to finance the construction of academic facilities. Specific information is provided on: (1) the focus on Sallie Mae's college-construction activities to date; and (2) activities that would probably not have been financed under the changes to…
Descriptors: College Buildings, Construction Costs, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC. – 1996
This report describes activities and accomplishments of the Federal Communications Commission's Disabilities Issues Task Force on disabilities issues from March 1995 through April 1996, its first year. Introductory material includes a message from the chairman of the Commission and a statement of the Task Force's purpose, which is to address…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Nash, Kay, Ed. – Colorado Communique, 1998
This document consists of the four issues of a newsletter published during 1998. The newsletter discusses topics pertinent to school food service and providing nutrition for elementary school students. The February/March issue discusses exemptions under the Competitive Foods Regulation, celebrating cultural diversity in cafeteria menus, and…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Child Health, Eating Habits, Elementary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1992
The integration of television into a digital framework makes possible the merger of television and computers. Development of a digital system will permit the consumer to receive television and computer images on the same screen at a quality approaching 35mm film. If fiber optic telecommunications lines are linked to the home and standards are…
Descriptors: Business, Competition, Computers, Federal Regulation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
This report discusses: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) policy requiring that foster care training costs be allocated proportionately between the Social Security Act Title IV-E foster care program and other programs; (2) adherence to this cost-sharing policy; and (3) the effect of cost-sharing on states' training programs. It…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Regulation, Federal State Relationship, Foster Care
Bollier, David – 1991
Suggesting future lines of inquiry for policymakers and others, this report attempts to distill the essential points of discussion and debate that occurred during a conference on electronic media regulation and the first amendment attended by 21 experts representing legislative, regulatory, business, judicial, academic, audience, and media…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Freedom of Speech, Futures (of Society), Government Role
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1989
Recent amendments to Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to involve the public in the development of proposed Chapter 1 regulations. The law required ED to conduct a series of regional meetings and to implement "a modified negotiated rulemaking process as a…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Richards, Jef I. – 1987
Because recent restrictive changes in cigarette advertising laws have unknown consequences for advertisers, this report outlines the history of the controversy over whether to allow cigarette advertisements, explores its legal status with respect to First Amendment rights for advertisers, and considers potential solutions to the conflict between…
Descriptors: Advertising, Federal Regulation, Freedom of Speech, Mass Media Effects
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