Our urban-located land grant institution has long been committed to engaged research, teaching, and service. This paper describes efforts to articulate and implement a strategic urban land grant vision that places urban/metropolitan engagement at the center of our institution's "urban age" future. We describe intentional and broad-based efforts in…

Materials for planning, organizing, and scheduling community activities for National Women's History Week (NWHW) are provided. The purpose of the week was to help male and female students become aware of the wealth of women's history that has been left out of the standard U.S. history texts used in most schools. Section 1 summarizes a sample of…

This dissemination guide is intended to help schools develop school-community-based adult education programs. A six-step program to meet training and retraining needs and leisure time requirements is presented by the Cabot School District. The model's first step is designed to aid in the establishment of an advisory council to guide program…

This booklet explains how service learning can be used to encourage out-of-school youth to return to an education program. The booklet begins with a discussion of the term "out-of-school youth" that includes the early warning signals indicating a potential for dropping out of school and circumstances and characteristics of potential…

This handbook details a step-by-step process to establishing educational relationships or partnerships with business, labor, government, and community organizations. Worksheets are provided to help with this relationship-building process. Chapter 1 focuses on these areas: the why of a partnership, resources to support the effort, benefits for each…

A Local Education Fund (LEF) is a third-party, nonprofit entity whose agenda, at least in part, consists of developing supportive community and private sector relationships with a public school system. It provides limited private sector support to launch initiatives and broker relationships leading toward school improvement. LEFs are funded by the…

The 1977 Assembly focused on community forums, planned events providing an opportunity for broad participation and informed discussion of current issues of concern to local citizens. The background papers and recommendations of the Assembly are included in this report. "Why the Community College Should Be the Institutional Base," by…

Describes a project in which the learning resource center of Mattatuck Community College, a member of a regional consortium, cooperated with Hispanic and other minority groups in producing videotapes. These videotapes were designed to disseminate information about minority cultures and achievements via public access television. (CLB)

Legislation in 1977 strengthened the role of school councils, comprised of teachers, parents, and students, in South Carolina to increase community and parent participation in schools. Accomplishments achieved and obstacles encountered by school councils are discussed. Aspects of effective councils are identified. (BJV)

This publication brings together ideas, techniques, and designs that have been encountered by designers of school community centers. It is intended as a guide to creating a school community center that will meet the needs of a particular community and help make it a more vibrant, healthy, desirable place in which to live. Part I (encompassing…

Author makes an argument for the involvement of potential users in the planning of new school buildings, noting that such collaboration will result not only in better buildings but also in a more responsive educational program. (Editor/RK)

This document is the sixth in a series of eight that document the Lincoln, Nebraska, Public School System Tenth-Cycle Teacher Corps Program, and consists of an explanation of the role "collaboration" plays in the development and conduct of the Program. School-community-university cooperation is discussed as a major concept in the…

This schedule, a month-by-month list of communication activities, is intended to assist the school communicator in strengthening school-community relations. The communicator must reach all school constituents (parents, staff, citizens) with his program. (DS)

While recognizing that every school community has unique public relations needs, the author presents eight suggestions that apply universally. (Author/IRT)