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Tulloch, Rodney W. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1971
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Role, Agricultural Education, Employment Opportunities
Thompson, Theodis – Crisis, 1977
Briefly describes the efforts of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, working with predominantly black colleges, to become advocates for improving health care in communities surrounding their respective colleges. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Black Colleges, Black Education, Blacks
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Scales, Cynthia; Scales, Peter – Child Welfare, 1982
Demonstrates how one community family life education agency deals with pressures for and against sex education, describing the agency's philosophy and curriculum and providing suggestions for strategic planning. (MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Community Support, Parent Participation
Benson, Ronald – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1981
Humanities programs that involve citizens in discovering the relevance of the humanities to contemporary American experience are supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities through its state affiliates. State humanities agencies, catalysts in program design and delivery, and some programs are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Agency Role, Higher Education, Humanism
Jesser, David L. – 1974
The paper traces the progress of the Career Education Project, funded for a 12-month period in the spring of 1973, and designed to enable the chief State school officers and their respective State education agencies to have ready access to information about career education. It was intended that the project would review and make recommendations…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Role, Career Education, Curriculum Development
Lally, J. Ronald; And Others – 1993
Families First, an early intervention program implemented in Marin City, California, was designed to integrate and coordinate the provision of a wide range of services to families of children in a low-income, mostly African-American community, from the third trimester of pregnancy to 8 years of age. The program is intended to enhance the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Black Community, Childhood Needs, Community Services
Roy, Marjorie Brown – 1979
This manual is designed to assist those individuals or groups responsible for developing educational and vocational programs for women in jail. The first section identifies the needs and problems of women in jail, focussing on discrimination against poor women unable to afford bail, the nonviolent nature of women's crimes, and the inequity of jail…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Correctional Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hansen, Glenn L.; And Others – Business Education Forum, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Role
Rask, Glen; Werschke, Jeanne S. – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1977
Career education in Colorado is summarized in terms of the State's career education concept and related terms; activities of the State executive committee, State board of education, and State advisory council for career education; standards for eligibility; and current practices. (TA)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Career Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Gray, Madelaine – 1977
A project was developed to design policies and procedures for competency-based recertification for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants. Project activities included the exploration and appraisal of various methods of recertification, e.g., continuing education requirements, audit/record review requirements, written…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Certification, Competency Based Education, Occupational Therapists
Massachusetts State Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. – 1978
This supplement updating a 1977 publication explains changes and additions in the priorities and administration of library programs, services, and activities funded under the Library Services and Construction Act in Massachusetts. The functions and responsibilities of three state agencies--Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Formative Evaluation, Information Needs, Library Administration
METCALFE, WILLIAM W. – 1965
A 4-H COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IS DEFINED AS ANY ORGANIZED GROUP WITHIN THE COMLUNITY WHICH ASSUMES THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR, AND THE DIRECTION OF, 4-H CLUB WORK WITHIN THAT COMMUNITY. THE FUNDAMENTAL GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT AND THE VOLUNTEER LAY LEADER IN 4-H COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS ARE FORMULATED BY…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Clubs, Community Organizations, Leadership
Lee, Arthur M. – 1968
The Arizona Research Coordinating Unit has concentrated its efforts during the past 18 months on a study of engineering technology which was published in March of 1968. A second major project is a study of vocational-technical education in the state to be used as a basis for future planning. Other activities included assistance with several…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Annual Reports, Data Collection, Educational Research
Iowa State Manpower Development Council, Des Moines. – 1968
The Iowa State Manpower Development Council was established as an experiment in local coordination of federal, state and community manpower programs. Shifts in the occupational and industrial attachment of workers and heavy out-migrations of workers from rural to urban areas underscored the importance of human resource development. The major goal…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Blackwell, James E. – 1987
The Southern Education Foundation's Higher Education Program (HEP), its history, activities, and directions are described. The program was established within the foundation in 1974 to address the critical issues raised by the Adams vs. Richardson case, which mandated the dismantling of dual (racially discriminatory) systems of public higher…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Black Colleges, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods
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