Compares the distance education model of Western Governors University, which offers online instruction and degrees and competes with existing colleges, with that of Southern Regional Education Board's Electronic Campus, which offers students easy access to online courses offered by participating colleges. Notes that the SREB model has been more…

Reports on the initial steps and leadership of a new for-profit Web site, Fathom, established by Columbia University and five other institutions, that will market distance-education courses and academic texts. Discusses challenges in integrating the entrepreneurial spirit of the Internet with the university's core values. Reviews the career of the…

Discusses efforts of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) to develop national accreditation for teacher education that will help ensure competent educators. Considers certification, standards, and future possibilities. (Contains 7 references.)…

Presents evidence that spiritual development is an integral part of students' overall development and argues that it is too often ignored on college campuses. Offers strategies to improve cooperation between student affairs administrators and representatives of religion on campus to acknowledge this aspect of students' lives more fully. (Contains…

An elementary school art teacher with 25 years' experience with the Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools praises her district's nationally recognized program. She attributes success to several factors: a written curriculum for grades K-6, a strategies document for implementing the curriculum, a strong staff development component, collaboration…

Founded in 1977, "Communities in Schools" champions the connection of needed community resources with schools to help 300,000 youngsters annually to learn, stay in school, and prepare for life. The program brings in community-service providers, such as health-care and mental-health professionals, to work as a personalized team alongside…

Outlines a theoretical and conceptual framework for neighborhood-based collaboration by nonprofit organizations. Analyzes the main concepts of innovation in the design and implementation of a collaboration to prevent child maltreatment in an undervalued neighborhood and draws implications for social policy, social work practice, and social work…

Presents a four-phase, theoretically based model for supervision co-constructed and shared by members of a professional-development school community and influenced by four bodies of literature. The four phases include building of readiness, directed supervision, reflective supervision, and teacher inquiry. Benefits of collaborative supervision are…

Discusses the Professional Development Initiative, created by the University of South Carolina and the state's technical college system to provide technical college faculty and administrators with professional development activities. Indicates that the program has two components: a set of six core courses to improve organizational understanding…

Outlines the development of partnerships across three employment-related government ministries, in a context of organizational restructuring and downsizing. Describes a consultation process regarding effective collaboration to assess unemployed clients' employability needs. In meetings, the workers developed a process that involved the cooperation…

Describes the challenges and ultimate success of a partnership--the first of its kind--between San Jose State University and the city of San Jose to develop a joint library that was both innovative and economically sound. (EV)

Identifies principles of attracting alumni volunteers to community volunteer projects organized by college alumni organizations, considers ways alumni organizations get involved in community service projects, suggests benefits of such projects for alumni organizations, offers principles of successful partnerships with national service…

Considers risk management and liability issues in cases of camp partnerships with schools, camp alternatives to incarceration for juvenile offenders, and elder hostel programs. Discusses making contracts, hiring attorneys, identifying risks and responsibilities, insuring volunteers, governmental immunity, liability waivers, additional insured…

Inreach and Outreach, a new recruitment model, was devised in an endeavor to link educational institutions to human services agencies themselves in training and recruitment of prospective human services workers. Inreach and Outreach monitors current trends and keeps the curriculum coherent with the philosophies basic to the effective…

Surveyed clinical clerkship directors at a large medical school to determine which patient problems they regarded as critical or important to know. Found a significant overlap of the clinical curriculum between clerkships, suggesting multiple opportunities for faculty collaboration in clinical education. (EV)