A

Academic achievement, 28 ;

lowered standards of, 26

Administrators, 4 -5, 54 , 56 , 66 , 80 -81, 107 , 118 -119

Adult and continuing education, 62 , 116 -125;

examples of programs in, 121 -124;

financial support for, 125 ;

humanities in, 117 , 118 , 120 , 121 ;

increase in, 116 ;

for people over sixty years old, 123 ;

recommendation for collaboration in, 121 ;

recommendation for humanities in basic education programs for, 120 ;

role of public libraries in, 134 ;

in rural areas, 124 ;

vocational training in, 117 -119

Adult Basic Education (ABE), 119 -120;

recommendation for, 120

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 126

ALCOA, 159

American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, 82

American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities, 34 , 107 , 156 , 179

American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, 117 , 119 , 133

American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, Inc., 152 , 160

American Association of Museums (AAM), 131

American Association of Retired Persons, 115

American Association of School Administrators, 32

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), 131 , 136 , 138 , 140

American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 68

American Bar Association, 78 -79

American College Testing Program, 52

American Council on Education, 4 , 86

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 96 , 97 , 103 , 104 -105, 150 , 166 ;

financial support of, 105 , 154 , 160

American Federation of Teachers, 32

American Historical Association, 51

American Library Association, 96

American Philosophical Association, 51

American Scholar, The , 101

Architecture:

interpretation of in historic preservation, 139

Art Museum as Educator, The , 129

Arts, the, 35 , 39 , 116 ;

private support for, 153 , 158 , 160 ;

in definition of culture, 162 ;

in elementary and secondary schools, 40 -43;

in higher education, 69 ;

public interest in, 113 -114;

recommendation on arts in the curriculum, 40 , 69 ;

responsibility of federal agencies for, 171 ;

on television, 141 , 142 ;

value in study of, 12 , 29 , 41 -42, 69 ;

and widespread support for the humanities, 153

Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 15 , 114 , 147

Association of American Colleges, 79

Association of American Law Schools, 82

Association of American Medical Colleges, 82

Association of American Publishers, 96

Association of American University Presses (AAUP), 96

Association of Research Libraries, 96

Association of Science-Technology Centers, 131

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 32

Authors Guild, 96