This document presents a brief history of important events in the development and maintenance of the post-secondary transfer system in British Columbia (BC) over the last six decades. Information is presented in point form and in chronological order. Several points related to the expansion of the post-secondary system are included, and hence the…

This document details a unique transfer agreement between the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville (UACCB) and Lyon College, a selective liberal arts college in the region. This agreement allows students at Lyon to take courses at UACCB and students at UACCB to take courses at Lyon prior to transfer, without paying the higher…

This document argues that regions that sustain economic growth or recover rapidly from economic slumps are often the same communities that have aggressively developed and continue to strengthen collaborations with business and industry, universities, community colleges, high schools, and other key public and private sector entities. In San Diego…

This report to the Santa Monica College (SMC) Board of Trustees focuses on the college's programs and achievements, especially as they relate to community development, and proposes a new city government and school relationship with respect to educational finance. The report proposes creation of the Santa Monica Educational Authority (SMEA), a…

This commentary focuses on the need to develop collaborative efforts between academic divisions and the community. While the role of the public school in the community has not changed, there is growing concern that the personal interactions between schools and the community have been lost, thereby dismissing students' need to understand their…

This manual provides communities with a listing of resources designed to help communities plan and develop school-community partnerships and community-development projects and processes. The main purpose of the manual is to supply a "ready-made" listing and description of resources so that models and topics are easily located. The list of…

This paper describes the following examples of partnerships in which academic libraries have been able to promote their institutional mission: (1) a partnership between the California Polytechnic State University library and the campus bookstore to honor campus authors; (2) a reception held by the Southern Methodist University (Texas) library in…

Discussed recommendations made by the AACJC on Higher Adult Education. (RK)

Five midwestern institutions have banded together in a consortium to build academic bridges with universities abroad and to provide more effective technical cooperation, believing that these activities will at the same time strengthen the international dimensions of their home campuses. (Editor)

Article describes the implementation of a model for teacher education based on a college faculty, public school staff, graduate, and undergraduate students which provides selected experiences based on the needs of all participants. (GB)

The establishment of educational documentation centers and the contribution of various international organizations toward their founding and functions is outlined. The position occupied by the centers within educational structures, their collections, staff, and services provided, the publications generated, and the network or information system…

Article describes one approach to planning based on management by objectives. The program used for illustration is Project RITE (Reach, Involve, Teach, Evaluate), a rural Michigan community college consortium involving Michigan State Universtiy and five rural Michigan community colleges. (Authors/CB)

The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges' Board has responded to the needs of junior colleges by encouraging federal and private support, enhancing the relationship between public and private institutions, and stimulating methods for better planning. (RN)

The problem in continuing education is that, when all is said and done, too often more is said than done. (Author)

Failures in the university-public school partnership to raise student academic achievement in disadvantaged areas is attributed to faculties that hold diametrically opposed views regarding both the dimensions of the problem and the basic aims and objectives of education. (MF)