The principal goals of the Institute were to implement equality of educational opportunity and school desegregation in eight Illinois communities, through the training of eight Community Teams, consisting of professional public school leaders and community leaders. The initial status of each community, the processes in which they engaged to…

Urges the development of community leaders whose performance can skillfully and sensitively deal with the needs of the community. (Author/JB)

Includes five administrative phases'' and nine steps followed in conducting a community survey. (SP)

This report, the seventh in the Community Social Analysis Series conducted by the Institute of Community and Area Development and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Georgia, summarizes the findings of a study of DeKalb County, Georgia. The community reconnaissance method was used in selecting and interviewing 117…

The Pittsburgh Goals Study about which this speech centers is SO 004 019. Issues identified by the leaders questioned which seem particularly crucial for the next five years in the development of Pittsburgh are: pollution control; public welfare system; drug problem; health services; low cost housing; rapid transit. Two more issues, Metropolitan…

The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which community consensus existed regarding a variety of major changes in Pittsburgh and the extent to which widely differing perspectives of community leaders might contribute to conflict, or at least significant difficulties, on these issues. A pragmatic secondary objective was to…