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Educational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY. – 1980
The college's role in enhancing the physical environment and facilities of its surrounding community is examined, based on the experiences of more than 30 institutions, ranging from small private colleges to large state-run universities. In contrast to practices in the 1950s and 1960s, there is currently a new understanding that the campus and the…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, Case Studies, College Role, Community Development
Young, Ken M. – 1980
A community-based education program enables rural communities to meet needs and solve problems by utilizing the total community environment and its human resources. Components of this program are: (1) expanded use of school facilities; (2) lifelong learning and enrichment programs; (3) interagency coordination, cooperation, and collaboration; (4)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Community Development
Rudick, Lois, Comp. – 1979
This publication presents profiles of the 29 councils currently participating in the Work-Education Consortium. (These councils address the issue of youth's transition from education to employment and work in a collaborative manner involving community people representing education, business and industry, government, social services, labor,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Action, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination
Travis, Mike – 1980
This introduction to the development of bilingual/bicultural programs in Alaska features models depicting the most common basic approaches to bilingual/bicultural education. Program models included are: (1) transitional - moves the child from his native language to English by completion of third or fourth grade and does not attempt to support…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Keene State Coll., NH. – 1976
The purpose of this project was to improve the quality and demonstrate the most effective methods and techniques of career education in four high schools in the state of New Hampshire. The focus was to effect change at two points: the first was the academic curriculum, where committees in each of the project schools reviewed their existing…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Strategies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Involvement
Preli, Barbara Stock – 1978
This monograph is designed for those charged with implementing career education programs. The first four of the nine sections clarify basic concepts. In section 1 career education is defined as an effort to help individuals acquire and utilize knowledge, skills, and attitudes which make work meaningful, productive, and satisfying. In section 2 the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1978
This document contains an overview of the Far West Laboratory (FWL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 446 and CE 018 449.) Divided into seven sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes excerpts of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Williams, Robert; And Others – 1978
This monograph focuses on adult education programs and (1) why needs assessment is necessary, (2) how to assess needs, (3) how to assess the needs of special groups, and (4) how to assess program needs. In the first of four sections the administrator's role is described, and the term "needs" is defined. Models are proposed for individual and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, Monterey, CA. – 1978
A project was designed to promote innovation in instructional procedures, curriculum development, collaborative community involvement, and staff development for incremental improvements in a comprehensive K-12 career education program. The fifteen project components focused on (1) applications of basic skills (reading, writing, and math) in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Career Awareness
FARRELL, GREGORY R. – 1965
COMMUNITY PROGRESS, INC. A NONPROFIT COMMUITY ACTION CORPORATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT, IN 1962, WITH A THREE YEAR FORD FOUNDATION GRANT. IT HAS UNDERTAKEN PROGRAMS OF EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL SERVICES, EMPHASIZING INVOLVEMENT WITH THE POOR ON A CLOSE, INFORMAL, NEIGHBORHOOD BASIS. SOCIAL, VOCATIONAL, HEALTH,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Basic Education, Career Counseling, Community Action
SENECAL, ROBERT; SMITH, HARRY – 1967
IN PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 1967 MEETING OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ASSOCIATION, A UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIRECTOR, ACADEMIC EXPERTS ON COMMUNITY THEORY, REGIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, AND AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, AND FEDERAL ADMINISTRATORS DISCUSS ISSUES AND IDEAS AFFECTING THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN HELPING TO IMPROVE COMMUNITIES.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Behavior Change, Change Agents, College Students
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1980
The 1979-1980 school year was the second year of operation for the Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) and the Toward Community Growth project, which was designed to provide rural Iowa high school students with occupational experience in their local areas in an effort to offset the out-migration of rural high school graduates and the lagging…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
White House Conference on Families, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report of the White House Conference on Families describes preparations for and the conduct of the National Conference and presents recommendations for action. After introductory material, the report traces in section two the development, adoption and ranking of the conference recommendations. Subsequently, recommendations made in four main…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Conferences
Lockart, Barbetta L. – 1981
According to non-Indian educators, American Indian children in public schools often pose discipline problems that cannot be handled with traditional non-Indian methods such as spanking, scolding, yelling, or isolation. The elements of Indian discipline (shaming, ridicule, threats of punishment by supernatural figures, storytelling, community…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Thomas, Ann G.; Hitchens, Donna J. – 1979
These materials are intended to provide a workshop design for conducting a one-day training program for representatives of community groups who are, or want to become, involved with helping to promote sex equity within the vocational education system. The workshop is designed (1) to provide representatives of community groups with background…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Compliance (Legal)
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