A critical view of vocational education as a productive system. (Editor)

Students can learn now, pay later, with Student Educational Loan Fund," Harvard's innovative financing system. (Editor)

This article provides an up to date summary of major trends and developments in social work education, which is now in the midst of rapid and accelerating growth and change. The author points out implications important to educators and social workers alike, agency administrators and community leaders. (Author)

Summaries of workshops held during annual meeting of the I.A.P.P.W., Detroit, 1970. (CJ)

A group experience with neighborhood workers in a black, ghetto community action program, with a white psychiatrist as group leader focuses on the definition of the task of consultation, derivation of mutually agreed upon goals, evolution of the group, and issues dealt with during the experience. (Author)

For higher education, the increasing number of nonprofit managers represents a graduate-level audience that may be as significant as the audience of business managers who emerged from private industrial corporations at the turn of the century. Yet colleges and universities have responded slowly to the needs of the third sector. (MLW)

Institutions of higher education and nonprofit, volunteer-dependent agencies have much in common but are also potential competitors for public and private support, media attention, volunteer energies, and clients. New partnerships must address four issues: organizations, personnel, curriculum, and learners. (MLW)

Examines the nature and quality of social services and support extended to children who enter the United States as legal or illegal immigrants or refugees, unaccompanied or with their families. Explores problems encountered by immigrant and refugee programs, and policy issues relating to services for newcomers. (Author/MJL)

Describes an organizational counseling and career development program that serves both employees and their supervisors at the general accounting office. The counseling and career development branch has program components including developmental workshops, a career resource center, and counseling for employees with personal problems. (JAC)

Discusses the role of the accreditation process for library education programs as assigned to the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association and offers criteria for measurement of programs and suggestions for change of present guidelines and quality standards. Three references are included. (EJS)

Surveyed public agency directors (N=17) to determine basic competencies of counselors desired and possibilities for counselor employment. Four cross-agency competencies were identified: (1) learning and adjustment; (2) counseling; (3) ethics; and (4) report writing. Some community agencies emphasize certain skills over others. The need for…