This article presents steps taken by Penn State's Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) to engage communities and transform the academy. ICIK provides opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to network with others who share a vision of the academy as a place where multiple ways of knowing are valued and respected.…

The Ohio State University Medical Center, a large urban academic medical center, and Mary Rutan Hospital, a rural community hospital in Logan County, Ohio, have been linked through a series of scholarly engagements spanning more than thirty years. What emerges from a qualitative study of key informants with personal knowledge of this interaction…

As part of a course entitled "The Politics of Poverty," students at the University of Deleware worked in social work organizations for the poor. Analysis of the program's effectiveness as measured by an opinion survey of participating students is included. (DE)

"Community-based corrections" places an emphasis on integration of offenders into the community. Community colleges should develop programs to help offenders become useful citizens. A clearinghouse is needed for sharing experiences and curriculum materials related to correctional staff training and inmate education. (DC)

In order to obtain Ministry of Education funding and approval for new projects, Toronto planners and boards must co-operate and demonstrate that the requirements of the "Co-operative Study" form have been met. (Author/WM)

Discusses approaches to the participation of citizen groups, parents, and students in educational collective bargaining. (JG)

Some current teacher organization claims to an increased influence in the control of education policymaking are assessed in the light of Dahl's criteria for determining legitimate, democratic authority. The rival claims of alternative, non-professional groups are weighed against the teacher organization claims. (Author/WM)

For the school counselor, the implications of child abuse are very real. The counselor's special training and abilities may be called to action in three general areas---counseling and working with parents, counseling and working with the abused, and participating in the community mental health response. (Author)

All Community college faculty members should automatically have 20 percent of their time assigned to community service courses. This will bring community services into the mainstream of the educational program and will assure financial coverage of community service courses. The resulting slack in the regular curriculum should be filled by…

This guide provides guidelines for promoting and attracting users to a church library. The first of six chapters, "Promoting Library Use," discusses stages of promotion, methods of attracting the attention and interest of prospective users, and how to involve members of the congregation in library activities; the second chapter, "Publicizing the…

This paper reports the effects of Hurricane Hugo on mental health workers and indigenous community members. The response and perceptions of mental health staff from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (Go Teams) from areas unaffected by the hurricane were compared and contrasted with those of a subsequent Hugo Outreach Support Team…

A new county extension agent, having community development responsibilities, will be concerned with identifying projects, organizing for action, identifying key people for the projects, and identifying the resources needed to undertake new initiatives. Three methods of community action planning are discussed step by step. The social action process…

This book is designed to serve as a handbook for early childhood professionals and others interested in improving the quality of early childhood services available to young children and their families. It also serves as a resource for information and tools that can be used to: (1) build a compelling case for improving the quality of early…

This paper describes the first six months of activities and accomplishments of Commonwealth Futures, an initiative designed to provide services to at-risk youth in Massachusetts schools. Major activities are outlined chronologically, implementation problems and successes are briefly discussed, and projected future activities are listed. These…