The advent of leisure counseling almost a quarter of a century ago has offered the recreation profession an essential challenge: to organize and constantly monitor a humanistic approach to facilitate leisure development for every individual. (CJ)

A highly successful program for educating handicapped preschool children in rural Wisconsin is described. The importance of training parents to help their children develop basic skills is emphasized. (RW)

Describes faculty outreach efforts at the Hamline University (Minnesota) library that resulted in Internet instruction for both faculty and students. Discusses one-on-one sessions, columns in departmental newsletters, workshops, seminars, and the involvement of the campus Computing Center. (LRW)

The Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas, Austin, is a selective doctoral degree program in community college administration that has been successful in training institutional leaders and focuses on developing minority talent. Important research has resulted from the program, and its outreach has provided professional…

Scholarship of engagement has meaning at two levels: (1) connecting the university's rich resources to the most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems, making it the staging ground for action; and (2) creating a climate in which academic and civic cultures communicate more continuously and creatively, enlarging the universe of human…

Describes four outreach programs that connect businesses and post-secondary institutions with schools and their science curricula. Mobile science laboratories provide services and access to science equipment to students and their teachers. (DDR)

Factors associated with completing a follow-up interview in an AIDS outreach/intervention project targeting out-of-treatment crack smokers were studied through 409 baseline interviews and 288 follow-up interviews. The study demonstrates that access to hard-to-reach subjects for follow-up is possible. Methods to enhance follow-up rates are…

Only 10% of schools have achieved genuine partnerships with their families and communities. This article summarizes decades of research demonstrating the importance of risk-taking principals, teacher engagement, diverse involvement opportunities, outside facilitators, family-welcoming strategies, learning at home, effective school-home…

Students from Drexel University (n=15) spent three weeks training and seven weeks serving as volunteer literacy tutors in learners' neighborhoods in the Literacy Training and Participation Program. Compared to an earlier study in a campus setting, there were no differences in academic achievement or quality of life outcomes. (JOW)

Describes the instructional method, Client-Life Cycle GIS Project Learning, used in a course at Indiana University of Pennsylvania that enables students to learn with and about geographic information system (GIS). Discusses the course technical issues in GIS and an example project using this method. (CMK)

In response to high numbers of preventable fatal accidents in the logging industry, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) developed a week-long logger safety training program that includes hands-on learning of safety techniques in the woods. Reaching small operators has been challenging; outreach initiatives in Maine, North…

Describes the Hagen Open University in West Germany that enables men serving long jail sentences to study by correspondence courses. Interviews participating prisoners and those responsible for founding and running the program. (DB)

Assesses the Schools Reaching Out programs at two elementary schools in Roxbury (MA) and New York City. Emphasis has been on input goals, not on outcomes, so that little progress in academic achievement has actually been made. Input goals, however, have been met. (DM)

Home-school-community collaborative programs often fail because of lack of administrative support and the difficulty of involving many lower income parents. Recommends supervision at the district level and care in choosing programs and personnel appropriate to the site. (DM)

Describes the College of Micronesia in terms of its history, efforts to meet regional needs and student goals, network of community education centers, facilities, programs and services. Examines the academic life of the college's 1,200 students and the challenges posed by the social and economic transformation affecting the entire three-nation…