A workable rationale for educational innovation should center around nationally and regionally coordinated research, development, and dissemination; a local network of experimental schools linked to regional and national centers; a larger network of dissemination schools for "road testing" innovations; and comprehensive training programs for staff…

Faculty and career planning and placement combine efforts to bring about a change. (Author)

The author describes how utilization of the Delphi technique with career education content enables elementary school counselors to effectively involve other school personnel in career guidance activities. (Author/HLM)

Describes the collaboration between a parish elementary school and a university that offers the children a possibility of going to college and enables university education and psychology interns to obtain real world experience. Lists the collaboration strategies used, such as mentoring. Discusses benefits for the elementary students, interns, and…

Rooted in the business community, the Boise Future Foundation evolved into a trisector initiative: public, private, and volunteer entity. Housed at urban Boise State University (Idaho), the foundation examines critical community issues and informs public policy, debate, and action. The foundation's evolution, highlights, critical accomplishments,…

The European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) supports faculty exchanges as part of regular cooperation among European universities. Survey of 485 faculty receiving grants to lecture abroad in 1990-91 examined participant characteristics, arrangement of the teaching visit, obstacles to planned exchanges,…

Analyzed annual electronic journal usage data for the NorthEast Research Library (NERL) consortium. Discusses the high degree of skew in journal use; describes results of a cluster analysis that revealed three distinct groups of institutions based on journal use; and recommends that institutions consider their consortial membership and organize…

Community development offers universities unique opportunities for collaboration with communities and enhanced opportunities for residents. Colleges and universities should think in terms of developing ongoing, not short-term, programs and concern themselves with the entrepreneurial aspects of program development. Similarly, communities should…

Examines the outcomes of dual enrollment as a means of acceleration in the Community College System and the State University System in Florida. Concludes that such programs are effective only if students are able to successfully progress to a subsequent course in series of courses. (NB)

Examined is a professor's views on a principal-professor exchange program. The role of principal was temporarily filled by the author (a professor) in six schools in North Carolina and Ohio. Six shared characteristics are discussed. (SI)

This article describes the Valley Education Consortium, a long-term, ongoing school-university partnership to achieve concurrent improvements in secondary school curriculum and assessment. The partnership consists of 10 school districts in western Oregon, three county education service districts, the Oregon State University-Western Oregon State…

Describes the origins of the Florida community colleges' Argentina Project, which sent a delegation of representatives to Argentina in 1992 to describe the community college system as a model for educational reform in the country. Describes changes in Argentina since 1989 regarding the political climate and reviews recent educational reforms in…

A discussion of technology in higher education looks at common, often erroneous, assumptions made in evaluating computer applications for teaching. The Flashlight Project, a three-year effort to develop and share procedures used by colleges and universities to evaluate education strategies for using technology, is described briefly. (MSE)

Examines the role of partnerships in the community colleges, reviewing their historical basis, primary keys for success, and potential barriers to achievement. Highlights the importance of administrative commitment at all participating organizations and willingness to yield some positions for the good of the project. (13 citations) (MAB)

A collaborative project to build a productive, trusting relationship among university staff and an elementary school staff consisted of initial meetings, involvement with the principal, availability of university staff at the school, classroom visits, classroom management assistance, workshops, and development of classroom projects and a…