This report contains the citations for the 1997 Hesburgh Awards for successful, innovative faculty development programs to enhance undergraduate teaching. The University of Missouri-Columbia, General Education Program, was the program judged to have best met the three award criteria: significance of the program to higher education, appropriate…

Argues that reorganizing libraries around the concept of user-focused access will help community colleges meet the information access challenges they face. States that integrated systems and the Internet have enabled libraries to broaden their concept of access from the physical collection to include thousands of other library collections and…

Paraprofessionals in special education play an increasingly important role in schools in such diverse areas as coach for a group of trainable mentally retarded adolescents and parent worker at a center for seriously emotionally disturbed students. (PHR)

The South African experience illustrates the developmental role that information services can play in the change process. Resource centers can empower people by providing access to information. The library and information science profession is facing challenges in formation of information policy in the postapartheid state. (SK)

Describes Career Development Center (CDC) model than can provide a conceptual and visual guide for school counselors who want to make sure their career development program is built on a sound basis. Summarizes the use of a multimedia approach to CDCs. (NB)

The development of the Humanities Research Center (housing one of the largest collections of twentieth century literature) at the University of Texas at Austin is described. The efforts of Harry Huntt Ransom in building the special collections, the financing of purchases, and present challenges the center must meet are explained. (BH)

Part of an effort to develop a state plan to prevent child abuse and neglect, this report provides a summary of recommendations and supporting rationale for parenthood education in Kansas. Brief reports of committees on (1) curriculum development in elementary and secondary school, (2) teacher preparation in colleges and universities, (3)…

Describes evolution of the teacher center in Selkirk (Manitoba) from a "make and take" library of teacher aids to a human resource center providing special services of a reading specialist, psychologist, audiologist, speech therapist, and secretary-librarian who offer pragmatic educational solutions and programs to assist teachers in…

Examines the relationship between informal environmental interpretive experiences and formal environmental education. Similarities and differences are delineated and implications are drawn for the use of interpretive experiences in environmental education school curricula. The Informal Environmental Learning Checklist (IEL) is presented as a means…

This summary provides an overview of Project OPTION, designed to reduce the influence of sex role stereotyping on student career choice; to increase student, parent, school, and community awareness of the negative consequences of sex bias; and to promote sex-fair and sex-affirmative teaching strategies. The materials include: (1) background…

The Iowa Vocational Assessment System (IVAS) conducted extensive research and developed an assessment model appropriate for use by local education agencies to assess competency-based curriculum. Two school districts requested and administered the Iowa Career Education Inventory with IVAS assistance in administration, scoring, and interpretation of…