The community colleges' community services function of providing educational, cultural, and recreational activities has broadened to include direct action in ameliorating social problems. This discussion clarifies the college's role by suggesting some of the distinctions between educational leadership and social welfare, and recommends both…

An overview of the International Women's Year, 1975, the World Conference of the International Women's Year, the World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Women's Year, and a Declaration of Principles adopted by the World Conference is presented. (LH)

The author reviews the "Cultural Missions Programme" of Mexico's educational reform after 1920, in which groups of teachers using Catholic missionary methods fought poverty and ignorance in rural Mexico. These mission programs embody most of the community development principles and are still needed. (MF)

Until government policy puts greater emphasis on changing the social and economic factors that contribute so massively to family problems, our social programs will remain directed at healing wounds, not preventing them. More resources of money and authority are needed to strengthen parents' abilities to do their jobs. (Author/EB)

Concludes that the social sciences must meet the same standards of rationality and honesty as the natural sciences, and, in addition, be wary of the uncertainties that arise from bias within and from the interests at stake outside. (Author)

Illustrations are given of how advances in motivational technology have contributed to raising the standard of living for the poor, facilitated compensatory education, provided a means of assessing the contribution of higher education, helped control serious diseases, and made management of complex enterprises more effective. (Author/AM)

Historical review of the function of social conflict in the nineteenth century women's rights movements. Considers whether suffrage and a move toward equality could have been accomplished without major philosophical differences. Differences between the Stanton and Anthony suffrage group and the Stone and Blackwell suffrage group are discussed.…

Notes that the papers in this issue stress the need for a conceptual framework (historical, social, legal, and developmental) for defining the critical parameters involved in arriving at a sound basis for social policy and child advocacy. (Author/AM)

The civil rights movement is very much alive, yet its life today is being consumed fighting defensive battles. The transition from primary emphasis on civil rights to emphasis on achieving the goal of civil equality is one that will put the movement on the offensive. (Author/AM)

Dewey's notion of applying the method of social intelligence to the solution of social problems is critically reviewed with special emphasis on his failure to come to terms with the question of concentrated social power in America. Theoretical ambiguities as well as unclear ideas on the practical agencies of social change are pointed out. (DS)

Possibly the major conclusion which could be drawn from this study is that for black college students attendance at a predominantly white university and political and racial alienation are directly related. (Author)

Notes that whether or not the goal of achieving a clearer understanding of the relationships between science and policy is reached, a clearer understanding of the complexities of the relationship is emerging in the process. (Author/AM)

Focuses on the significant episodes and events which decisively influenced the education of the Japanese in British Columbia in an effort to clarify the complexity of specific challenges to public schools in the one Canadian province with an unbroken history of de facto and legislative prohibition of aid to sectarian schools. (Author/AM)

Notes that the Negro Renaissance literature and the ideology of militant integrationists of the 1920s formed the basis of the first organized, large-scale movement for assimilation. (Author/AM)

Describes Dolci's most recent project, an experimental school for children of the peasant community in Partinico, in western Sicily. In no other place in Italy is public education available to children on a full-time basis. (Author/AM)