Opportunities Industrialization Centers see profit motive as key to helping the poor. (Editor)

A checklist of current state manuals, for the fifty states published by official state agencies or by commerical publishers, is provided, with specific information on how to obtain them. (Author/AB)

Comments on A. Harvey's Belitsky's book entitled Private Vocational Schools and Their Students." (EB)

Because the correlation is low, it is suggested that the instruments not be used by counselors in the state agencies to predict rehabilitation success. (Author)

A bureaucratic orientation of social workers is found to be conservatizing; a client orientation, radicalizing; and professional orientation, when taken alone, is neither. When coupled with agency or client orientations, however, professionalization intensifies the conservatizing effects of agency orientation and the radicalizing effects of client…

Argues that effort should be made by public agencies to keep abreast of new constitutional cases as well as accepted procedures and practices in the community. In this way, agencies will minimize the likelihood of having to answer for their actions as defendants in a lawsuit brought by a present or former client. (MP)

An expectancy-value procedure is developed for delineating the nature of interagency relationships during the operation of a youth-serving agency. Advantages of this approach are presented. (Author/GK)

The author outlines the basic steps of the process of institutional evaluation and describes the scope of six major regional accrediting associations for postsecondary education. (SK)

A member of the National Evaluation Policy Group discusses the dynamics of the national evaluation of extension education, and the national expectations, issues, and impact of the process. (SK)

Describes 20 volunteer programs that are specifically designed for older adults. Points out that senior citizens can contribute to society long after they retire. (JOW)

Describes the availability of United States government-produced audiovisual materials and discusses two audiovisual clearinghouses--the National Audiovisual Center (NAC) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Finding aids made available by NAC, NLM, and other government agencies are mentioned. NAC and the U.S. Government Printing Office…

This paper discusses eight factors considered the requisites of interagency coordination: items to exchange, mutual benefit, awareness, mutual respect, communication, similarity or complementarity of goals, opportunity, and commitment. (CT)