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This report examines the cost of teacher education in seven of the senior colleges of the City University of New York for the spring semester of 1970. It is limited to those costs related to the staffs assigned to instructional, supportive and non-teaching functions within the various teacher education programs. Results indicate that costs for present teacher education programs at the undergraduate level are approximately 25 percent above those of undergraduate liberal arts, and graduate programs are 8 percent above graduate liberal arts. The extra costs are due to two factors: 1) the cost of non credit-producing activities related to the supervision and maintenance of a licensed professional training program, and 2) the high costs of off-campus supervised student teaching and field experiences. Of the entire teacher education instructional budget, 30.7 percent was allocated to undergraduate courses, 23.8 percent to graduate courses, 21.0 percent to non-teaching duties, 5.6 percent to secretarial costs, and 18.9 percent to fringe benefits. (The report contains numerous tables which analyze costs according to college, course, or credit hours.) (RT)

Forty guidance counselors and teacher-counselors, who were interested in improving their skill and competence in dealing with desegregation problems, met for a period of five weeks from June 12 to July 14, 1967. The main content of the Institute program consisted of classroom and practice experiences: (a) the classroom courses were concerned with the psychology and sociology of school desegregation, and the dynamics of race relations; (b) the practice experience centered on a human relations practicum, "T" groups, and the use of audio-visual materials. (Author)

THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEEDS OF SEVEN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WERE STUDIED IN DETAIL. THREE OF THESE AGENCIES ARE PRIMARILY DEVOTED TO FOREIGN OPERATIONS--THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE, AND THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION. THREE OTHERS ARE PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH DOMESTIC PROBLEMS WITH ONLY MINOR ACTIVITIES IN OR CONCERNING FOREIGN COUNTRIES. SOME INFORMATION WAS ALSO GIVEN FOR THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. A SUMMARY SECTION INCLUDES MATERIAL DRAWN FROM THE REPORTS OF INDIVIDUAL AGENCIES COVERING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THESE AGENCIES, THE TRAINING PROGRAMS, RECRUITMENT AND ASSIGNMENT POLICIES, INCENTIVES, AND INDICATION OF THE RANGE OF LANGUAGE INTERESTS OF THE AGENCIES. THE SUMMARY SECTION IS FOLLOWED BY INDIVIDUAL AGENCY REPORTS. (TC)