The final volume of a four-volume study focuses on community use of cable television systems. Four separate aspects are discussed extensively: the possibilities of public access, use in municipal service applications, uses in education, and a guide for education planners. Each section contains several appendixes and the education sections include…

In order to design a participatory governance structure of the Division of Continuing Education and Community Services at Bristol Community College (BCC), the authors surveyed 85 randomly selected community colleges throughout the country; 14 institutions responded. Only two institutions, both in Colorado, seemed to have exemplary shared-authority…

The monograph is one of a series written primarily for professionals who work in career education or whose work relates specifically to aspects of career education. The purposes of the monograph are (1) to enter knowledge of the human services movement into the career education literature, (2) to describe the major characteristics of the human…

In order to identify and obtain an assessment of public attitudes about "quality of life" conditions and issues in Tuscarawas County, 25 students enrolled on the Tuscarawas Campus of Kent State University were specially trained to conduct interviews with a random sample of 307 Tuscarawas County residents and 50 specially selected…

By Florida law, coordinating councils in all 28 community college districts have been established to coordinate and articulate vocational-technical education, adult general education, and community instructional service programs between the community colleges and secondary schools. These councils are charged with reviewing existing programs and…

The Center/Satellite PPS program was designed to train new professionals and was one attempt to provide urban and minority populations with more effective educational services. An essential aspect of the program design is that it deals explicitly with cultural differences, partly by the emphasis on input from the many populations it is designed to…

Report No. 94-813 from the Senate Committee on Commerce submitted legislation which has the following principal purposes: (1) to expand and perfect with certain amendments, the matching program for construction of noncommercial educational radio and television broadcasting facilities; (2) to authorize to be appropriated $7,500,000 for the fiscal…

Urban decentralization is an attempt to reorganize local services through some combination of: (1) giving service recipients or clients greater responsibility over service policies (the client dimension) and (2) increasing service resources at the level of specific, geographically defined neighborhoods (the territorial dimension). The…

Five studies were conducted to complement and supplement existing accreditation studies for Johnson County Community College (JCCC): (1) "Community Satisfaction with JCCC Programs and Services," (2) "Continuing Education Student Profile," (3) "JCCC Student Success at Four-Year Transfer Institutions," (4)…

The document is intended as ready compilation of services and training programs available to local units of government, their officials and employees. It is organized into functional areas with subcategories of services and training offered by State agencies, educational institutions, and private entities. Agency contact personnel, substate…

This manual, designed to increase citizen understanding of child advocacy, offers practical suggestions on how groups of citizens, civic clubs, and fraternal organizations can become advocates for children in a community. The booklet describes child advocacy, child service agency monitoring, and possible ways to improve community services for…

Voluntarism, a concept rooted in the Puritan Ethic, is that ethos which assigns welfare functions for persons without adequate means to voluntary agencies, and voluntarism along with cultural pluralism must be curbed if exodus of the rural farm population is to be mitigated. With the exception of the Old Age and Survivor's Insurance Program, the…

Although educational radio has been part of the American scene for nearly half a century, it does not enjoy the governmental participation and national commitment that it receives in many other countries. The position of educational radio did improve with the advent of Frequency Modulation (FM) broadcasting, and today there are more than 450…

Among the various approaches used by the Inland Steel Company in training ghetto youth for jobs, greatest promise has been shown by the Work Experience and Training Program initiated in 1965 at the Joseph T. Ryerson and Son plant, an Inland subsidiary located in the Lawndale (West Side) area of Chicago near the scene of the 1966 riots. Results…

A study was made of the antecedents and the results to date (1968) of the merger of Agricultural Extension, General Extension, and educational broadcasting at the University of Wisconsin. This was finally achieved in 1963 by President Fred Harvey Harrington. The struggle between efforts to to maintain a traditional liberal arts orientation and…