The Flexible Campus Program, the author believes, has given Boston's schools system-wide innovation by offering real curriculum alternatives and meaningful, supervised, career and future-oriented'' learning opportunities that draw on community resources. (Editor)

Continuing education programs are growing rapidly in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Here private universities are offering credit and noncredit courses off campus to take advantage of the influx of employees and their families accompanying corporate headquarters into the area. Discusses off-campus continuing education programs as they are being…

The Mobile Instructional Classroom (MIC) was combined with the concept of distance learning to provide coursework to inservice regular classroom teachers about handicapped students. A review of the literature revealed four factors necessary for assisting the teacher with integration of handicapped students: (1) knowledge about the characteristics…

Notre Dame's alumni association and student government provided Fort Lauderdale-based services and activities during spring break. Included were: hospitality center, a WATS line, student locator file, message exchange board, and ombudsman services. (MLW)

Describes a learn and shop program conducted by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in various shopping malls around the city. Discusses how the atmosphere of composition courses held off campus influences students' attitudes toward writing and college-level work. (HTH)

The Elkhart Career Education Planning Program (ELCEP), a K-12 component of Indiana's career education effort, and its first three years of operation are described in the document. A general discussion of the definition of career education, program goals, administration, funding, and facilities provides background material on the program. Several…

This is a directory of 129 off-campus study centers sponsored in 1968 by 14 Federal agencies in cooperation with 91 schools and universities; nearly 26,000 government employees received career-related training and higher education opportunities. The agency may provide classroom facilities and training equipment; the university provides the…

Describes the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing experimental program, initiated to tap a new pool of potential nurses, which resulted in a better distribution of nurses throughout the State and alleviated other problems associated with level of education and enrollment. (Editor/TA)

A high school French program conducted entirely in French on local ski slopes is based on the philosophy that language is a social tool for communicative purposes and can best be learned in social interaction. The successful program uses teamwork, an open attitude toward language learning, non-stressful evaluation, and innovative techniques. (MSE)

Considerations in the planning and construction of overseas college campuses are discussed, and the process followed by Webster University (Missouri) in developing four European campuses is described. Special issues arising in the conversion of one location from leased facilities to an institution-owned site, including zoning and construction…

The Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis'"Learn & Shop" program, which offers regular college credit courses in convenient shopping centers, is discussed. In addition to providing information on students, books and libraries, curriculum, and classes, consideration is given to advantages for students, retailers, and…

The Midwest Center for Off-Campus Studies offers students the opportunity to learn in a holistic manner by inserting them into a new community, either domestic or foreign, so that they can not only see the physical characteristics of the site, but can experience learning. Although the Center is at present an association of five Illinois two-year…

The history of the Chapman College Residence Education Center (REC) System is traced from 1958 to 1982. After experimenting near its home campus in Orange, California, the program has grown to 41 centers in California and eight other states, including the Navy's shipboard PACE program. In 1958 the college met the request of students at nearby El…

Describes the skill training and retraining provided to workers in Atlanta, Georgia through arrangements between the employing companies and the Atlanta Area Technical School. The school offers specialized training in day classes and also in part-time evening courses off-campus according to company training needs. (MF)