This document incorporates the findings of a project initiated to find solutions to the problems of planning, designing, constructing, and utilizing facilities to house career education. The first section in part reproduces scenarios forecasting experts' consensus of views about technological change by the years 1985, 2000, and 2025. Facilities…

Intended as a simple, economical method of needs assessment, this needs-assessment model presents four primary tasks: goal definition, program assessment, needs identification, and decision-making. Each step is explained in detail with sample instruments, sample preplans, education goals, and a questionnaire. The needs-assessment concept is…

The Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Network (CECEN) is a city-wide, Title III-funded program in Philadelphia designed to provide: (1) information about already-existing programmatic approaches to early childhood education in the city; and (2) opportunities to begin the development of alternative approaches to staff, parental, and community…

The Board of Trustees of the Kansas City Metropolitan Junior College District sponsored a long range planning study for the future development of the district. Under the direction of Dr. Raymond J. Young, this study was designed to update an earlier one completed in 1968 by the staff in the light of changed conditions and trends. Information was…

This report of the Community Educational Aides in Open Space School project evaluates the role and function of educational paraprofessionals in open space schools, in this case the elementary-level Bruce-Monroe School in Washington, D.C. The project entailed the employment of 13 aides during the 1973-74 school year to assist 23 Bruce-Monroe…

This study was initiated by Florissant Valley Community College and conducted by Systems Development Corporation to determine the priority of educational/information needs of three target groups: women, blacks, and older Americans. Among the aims of the project was the identification of existing constraints on community access to sources of…

Action research combines the development of competence with community action. It provides a means of organizing large numbers of people around well-defined, short-term jobs; engages people face to face with a problem; and translates research into politics by building a base of mass support for a given problem. The basic components of any action…

Colleges and universities today understand that positive public attitudes about higher education are important because they affect their financial stability and public support of their academic programs. Recent opinion surveys highlight the public's view that colleges should provide more adequate career preparation, while students also see their…

This study builds on a previous report, Higher Education in Alaska, commissioned by the Alaskan Legislature in 1972. Suggestions and recommendations made in that initial report and the subsequent actions taken on them make up the body of the discussion. Along with a review of organizational and budgeting matters, of special interest is the…

The function of art as an integral part of a humanist education is discussed in depth. Five areas which clearly show the need for art in elementary schools are examined: (1) the relation of art to the unity of the learning process; (2) art, as an emotional outlet, ego fortifier, and sensitizer; (3) art as a progress and problem indicator; (4) art…

Because the nursing department at Delaware Technical and Community College receives applications from more potential students than it can accommodate, it can no longer accept all applicants. The class which began in September 1975 was selected by a random selection process; this gave rise to numerous objections from rejected students, parents,…

This paper examines the potential impact of parent involvement in the formal education of their children and suggests ways that teacher education can be restructured to prepare teachers to work with parents. This paper attempts to answer five questions: (1) Why should parents be involved in the formal education of their children? (2) Why should…

Unit three of the third grade level of the FICSS series (Focus on Inner City Social Studies -- SO 008 271) continues the study of some of the major social institutions which affect students' lives. The unit focuses specifically on the local business community. The ways in which businesses get started, the kinds of local businesses, some problems…

This report is the second of a 3-volume study on the role of college-community relationships in higher education. The text summarizes the results of the Federal City College Survey, which was 1 part of the research effort. The purpose of the survey was to obtain information from people intimately involved or affected by the College concerning what…

The evolvement of the reading improvement program at Wayne State University is traced from its conception in 1941 to the present services being offered students and community residents. This description is divided into seven parts: development of the program, the current group program, the reading laboratory, evaluation of the student program,…