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National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1996
This publication describes the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and its planned programs and initiatives for 1996. A list of the officers and 1996 Board of Directors is followed by a preface describing the historic role of land-grant institutions. A section on NASULGC offers a short description and key…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Federal Legislation, Governance, Governing Boards
Turko, Karen – 1996
This document presents an overview of the Canadian national preservation program. It is divided into three sections: (1) Federal Initiatives, which explores activities at the National Library of Canada, the National Archives of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM), and the Canadian Conservation Institute; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advisory Committees, Archives, Cultural Background
Dorn, Arlene R. – 1996
Through a personal narrative, this chapter describes the history of the Gomez Farias-Pajaro Valley Project, which was renamed Project MEDIR and is now known as the Binational Program. The Binational Program is administered by the Migrant Education Programs in 10 U.S. states and all 31 Mexican states and the federal district of Mexico City. This…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers
Spears, Jacqueline D.; Oliver, Jenny Penney – 1996
This paper examines an effort to support "bottom-up" change that responds to larger school reform initiatives. The intervention strategy involved a collaboration in which a cluster of rural schools designed and implemented site-based projects related to multicultural reform, and a regional college and the state department of education…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Collegiality
Smith, Clifton L. – 1996
A project was conducted in Georgia to improve the quality of youth apprenticeship programs by identifying and validating a benchmarking system leading toward the establishment of a set of common, valued quality components and indicators for use by local educational agencies. Project activities were undertaken to accomplish the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Benchmarking, Certification
Valauskas, Edward J., Ed.; John, Nancy R., Ed. – 1995
This book examines real-life projects involving Internet access, use, and financing in libraries. It focuses on how becoming an Internet provider has improved many libraries' public visibility, level of service, and communication with other educational or community institutions. Chapters include: (1) "Setting Up an Internet Users Group in the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Consortia, Information Dissemination
Itawamba Community Coll., Tupelo, MS. – 1995
Since 1976, Mississippi's Itawamba Community College (ICC) and Tecumseh Products Company (TPC) have maintained a cooperative relationship providing the firm with support and services stemming from ICC's Skill/Tech One-Stop Career Center. The support offered to TPC has included the following: (1) since 1976, 105 pre-employment classes have been…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Industrial Training
Adler, Laurel; Cragin, John – 1993
As more immigrants enter the United States, there are more lower-skilled people in the country, especially in the Los Angeles area, whereas the growth in jobs is in the higher-skilled sector of the job market. As the problems have increased, the need for business involvement in education has become apparent. During the past 10 years, business…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship, Futures (of Society)
Schlack, Marilyn – 1993
The Arcadia Commons (AC), in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a business-education park developed through the combined efforts of Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC), area business and financial institutions, and the Kalamazoo Public Museum, who together formed Downtown Kalamazoo Incorporated (DKI). KVCC's involvement resulted from the need to find…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Development, Construction Programs, Economic Development
O'Neill, Michael; Higdon, Jo Ann – 1998
In 1996, the faculty union and administration at Desert Community College District (DCCD) partnered to identify new funds that could be used to improve salaries and augment the budget. The administration entered into a written agreement to support a mutual short-term goal of achieving salary parity with peer colleges. A "Market Basket…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Costs, Educational Finance
Lyon, Pat Rajski – 1998
This manual was prepared as a resource for administrators, faculty, university counselors, and independent school districts in developing and reviewing articulation agreements and tech prep programs. Chapter 1 is the introduction to the program. The chapters that follow are: (2) benefits derived from articulation; (3) types of articulation,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
An assessment was made of the extent to which participants enrolled in programs funded by Title IIA of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) receive support services that enable them to attend training. Specifically, the study sought to determine the following: (1) the extent of participant support that local JTPA programs provide; (2) the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Coordination
McLachlan, J. E.; Wood, V. – 1994
This paper discusses collaboration between institutions of further education (FE) and higher education (HE) in Scotland, governmental policy toward postsecondary education in Scotland, and Napier University's response to these policies. FE in Scotland is analogous to community college education in the United States, providing vocational and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Cross Cultural Studies, Enrollment
BW Associates, Berkeley, CA. – 1992
Intended to provide background information and preliminary options for the California Community Colleges' Commission on Innovation, this document explores issues related to the construction of facilities whose use and cost are shared by various entities. Following introductory materials detailing the Commission's charge, the paper proposes that…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Carels, Peter; McCullough, Lynette – 1993
A pilot project was developed in which the Advertising and Market Research Center of the Vienna School of Economics and Business in Austria and the German Department as well as the Marketing Department of Miami University in Ohio are working together to collect market research data and formulate a market entry strategy for Roemerquelle, an…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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