A review of the rapid growth of community colleges with an analysis of current situations and recommendations for capitalizing on them. Community colleges must coordinate their efforts with those of the high schools and universities; they must also make occupational education equal to academic education in the minds of citizens. (DC)

Proposes administrator education programs involving the university and the local school district in sharing knowledge and personnel. (MLF)

This directory includes 115 cooperative arrangements involving 1,398 members. It is designed as a tool that can be used to promote cooperation and association and to assist research. Included in this directory are a list of consortia, program information, consortium directors, and location of consortium members. The cooperative arrangements cited…

Describes development and preliminary implementation of the Community Education Program on Home Rule, a statewide program to aid local communities in educating citizens about the possibility of modifying their municipal government under the provisions of Pennsylvania's Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law. (JG)

The author describes the Indiana Career Resource Center--its objectives and services. A primary effort has continued to be that of serving an ever-expanding geographical area, and to serve various organizational structures. The future activities demand increased awareness and preparation of its staff. (Author/JB)

The article offers an overview of education in prisons and describes a college program in Oregon-the Newgate program. The advantages of university sponsorship of a program is that a community advocate of high stature is involved in rehabilitation and can introduce new educational opportunities. (Author/JB)

A rationale is offered for the use of communication satellites, which would provide a means for transcending the difficulties of distance, for the formation of academic constellations to conduct courses, coordinate cooperative research activities, and conduct academic business. One means of instituting satellite usage would be the formation of…

Community colleges and public libraries have much in common, can both learn from each other, and have a great deal to share with each other as they carry out their respective roles: both profess to have total community-wide service as their goal/objective; both draw upon the same population and tax base; and the general public often makes use of…

This bulletin provides information on the teacher education reciprocity policies of every state and the District of Columbia. None of the reciprocity agreements provide automatic certification; one must apply through each state's formal application procedure. The reciprocity ordinarily refers to the basic or initial teaching certificate. The…

A Minnesota State College Common Market (MSCCM) of education program to open the resources of all 6 state colleges and permit them to move freely within the state system was proposed. The program involves full transferability of all general education requirements, and those major requirements approved by the degree-granting college, for a minimum…

The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the attitudes of school committee members and administrators toward voluntary collaborative metropolitan education and to determine if a relationship existed between their expressed attitudes and the past performance of their respective school districts in establishing collaborative patterns. A panel…

A study was undertaken to: (1) assess problems with UHF television systems; and (2) identify problem-solving activities on which different broadcast institutions could cooperate, The model for comparing UHF with VHF broadcast/reception services assigned performance disparity figures to each of the following elements: (1) transmitter and…

International university cooperation is the main purpose of the International Association of Universities (IAU). Certain problems arise in the field of international cooperation and particularly in the field of assistance. The helping hand easily becomes a dominating hand while the notion of mutual exchange presupposes the existence and…

Since its inception in 1972, the Higher Education Cooperation Act (HECA) is proving to be an effective agent for improving Illinois higher education, and at a nominal cost. Various HECA projects aimed at encouraging international cooperation and increasing access to higher education have involved in some way nearly every public and private college…