Low-income students must increasingly rely on work and loans to meet the high costs of college. Too often, though, the jobs they take are not in their field of study, which can impair the potential for career exploration and improved employment outcomes in the future. Despite the need to combine work and school in a meaningful way, only a limited…

Since their inception, social work education programs have operated in partnership with community agencies, as both field sites and foci for research. However, surprisingly little has been written on models of university/community partnerships in social work or the role of agencies in shaping curricula. This study analyzed the outcome reports of…

Discusses findings from a study by Campus Compact of community service work-study efforts. Findings are described in the areas of: current program structures, employing students effectively, collaboration with community organizations, community service benefits and challenges, opinions regarding President Bush's mandated percentage of work-study…

Students, through part-time work and/or work-study experiences offer a service to their communities. (CA)

Considerably broader in scope than the usual cooperative education project, the Community Learning Program at a Florissant, Missouri, high school exposes students to the widest possible range of skills and professions in the area. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and its relationship with the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Describes summer orientation programs and a variety of academic programs to help bridge the gap for incoming deaf students. (RW)

The purpose of this paper is to provide an awareness of the broad variety of educational programs which use the community or the work environment as a part of the curricula, to help school officials realize the benefits of using the work environment to enhance the educational program, andto suggest ways of installing occupational experience…

Although community colleges have a relatively short period of time to help students learn about society and themselves, the students can gain personal meaning from the concepts and information of course material through related, practical experience. Colleges may, therefore, find it beneficial to incorporate community service experience into the…

The combination of course work and related work experience into educational programs at the junior college level represents an attempt by these institutions to meet the changing requirements of today's employers. This Research Review looks at a few aspects of their programs . To begin with, the values of these programs are viewed from the…

The "CURA Reporter" is published quarterly to provide information about CURA an all-University applied research and technical assistance center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota. Items in this…

Suggests that the environment outside the school is now capable of taking over many of the school's classical functions, while educational functions traditionally carried on outside the school are now largely missing. (JF)

Compares educational philosophies in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe with regard to relationships between school and the workplace. Concludes that work study programs are more accepted in the United States and the Soviet Union than in western Europe, where they are generally restricted to less intellectual pupils. Available…

An agribusiness program faced with no facilities planned and acquired them through meeting the needs identified by the community. (HD)