THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE GENERAL EFFECTS OF CLOSED PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON THE SOCIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT OF A NEGRO POPULATION. A SECONDARY OBJECTIVE WAS TO EXPLORE THOSE FACTORS WHICH RESULT FROM EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL DEPRIVATION. EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND INFORMATION WAS ACQUIRED ON BOTH THE ADULT AND NON-ADULT NEGRO MEMBERS OF…

Four hundred seventy-two residential facilities across the U.S., serving mentally ill, alcoholics, and other disability groups, reported their experience with community opposition. Residential programs for offenders encountered opposition more frequently. However, for all types of facilities, attempts to occupy sites in residential neighborhoods,…

Revised version of a paper read at a meeting of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, October 1973, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (RL)

Describes library relationships with the religious, business, and other groups in its community. (SP)

Context: Among small rural hospitals, there is a growing recognition of the need to measure and report on the use of resources and the safety and quality of the services provided. Dashboards, clinical value compasses, and balanced scorecards are approaches to performance measurement that have been adopted by many health care organizations.…

When the alarm clock rings in the morning, the school fundraiser is not the first thing on a principal's mind. He or she is more likely to be thinking about such high-priority concerns as instructional leadership, communication, student interaction, school safety, and community relations. But as school budgets get squeezed, principals find…

The purpose of this paper is to compare the approach to promoting positive relationships between Catholics and Protestants in two types of integrated primary school in Northern Ireland. Drawing on qualitative interviews with teachers, governors and parents in one transforming school and one grant maintained integrated school, i.e. one…

A real community program needs not only programs but a new perspective on the total program of the library aimed at joining the theoretical to the practical, with a shift in accent to the needs of the patron as an individual. (Author/PF)

For junior colleges that cannot support a full-time public-relations director, the author suggests a program using the resources at hand. A flow chart must be made so that the faculty or administration member handling the program knows where to collect his information. (If possible, he should receive released time or extra pay.) Faculty members…

Examined relationship between social characteristics of remarried persons and community integration. When measures of community integration were regressed upon all independent variables, the type of marriage did not have an effect on any of the measures. However, when the type of remarriage was a control variable, different integration patterns…

Reports on a continuing study, initiated in 1977, of the experience of Vietnamese refugees who settled as fisherfolk in communities on the Gulf Coast, primarily in West Florida. Focuses particularly on the refugees' relationships to established local fishing interests. (Author/MK)

The Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IMCR) was established as a means of resolving community disputes by applying the mediation techniques used in labor-management conflicts. The major emphases of the IMCR are on ad-hoc mediation, the building of dispute settlement systems, and mediation and negotiation training. (JCD)

Proposes a framework for community sustainability that involves promotion of life-affirming interconnectedness, environmental learning that helps build the civic commons, and critical reflection and dialogue. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)

Engaging families in school-related programs, such as family literacy programs, has been promoted as an effective strategy to assist students who might otherwise fail to achieve success in school. The authors in this article report on an action research initiative with an urban Australian government community school in a relatively…