Ten essays from the Michigan State Leadership Seminars discuss the social imperatives confronting adult education and what the university can do and ought to be doing about them. The impact of the population explosion, urbanization, automation, the knowledge explosion, and the Bomb make it imperative that new concepts of work and leisure be built…

A national survey was conducted as part of a project on Developing and Utilizing New Techniques for Recruiting and Training Volunteers in the 70's. A presented questionnaire was mailed to 4132 professional directors in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and 1219 were returned. Of the respondents, 52% had been professional directors for…

The final report of the President's Task Force on Communications Policy recommends strengthened federal powers to form public policy in telecommunications. Such planned policy would enable the private sector to reach its full capacities in the field by improving regulation when it is necessary and removing unnecessary regulation. Monopoly of…

Some of the promising developments in outdoor education programs and activities of elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and private and state agencies are identified. Federally aided programs are cited. Brief statements of the programs in the states which reported to district chairmen in each of the 6 American Association for Health,…

This report covers the period from May 1967 when the Research Coordinating Unit was officially established, through August 1969. Consultative activities concerned such matters as surveys to determine educational needs, an interagency adult basic education and skill training project, graduate teacher education, and health occupations education.…

The utilization of supportive services to improve vocational education programs is reported from the community and school resources perspectives in the 2 speeches which make up this document. The first speech, delivered from the standpoint of community resources, mentions 2 variables which must be considered: the population to be served and the…

A pattern for developing and maintaining continuing mental health consultation with public agencies is presented. Usual models of consultation are predicted on an invitation to consult; they are time limited and problem specific. Described here is an entry pattern for consultation that is not predicted on an invitation to consult, is continuous in…

This report is one of six to be released by as many task forces on educational improvement and reform. The eight sections of this report include: (a) an introduction, which discusses the work of the task force; (b) an overview of the development and current operation of state education agencies (SEAs); (c) a view of the SEA as an effective change…

The U.S. Commissioner of Education concedes that his powers in many areas are merely powers of persuasion. However, he sees his role as that of needler, of constructive critic of American education at all levels and in all facets of performance. The Education Commission of the States was created to recommend basic policies and to advocate a broad…

The objective of this study was to reveal operational problems by objectively describing the service-delivery situation in the Children's Aid Society. A second goal was to add knowledge of social work practice. Major areas of concern were investigated: the undue length of time that some children tended to stay in the reception-assessment facility;…

This report describes the early childhood educator training programs of the 4-C (Community Coordinated Child Care) project, held in Milwaukee and Dane Counties, Wisconsin from 1970 to 1973. The goal of the training programs was to help teacher-directors, teachers, teacher-aides, and parent-assistants become aware of ways to improve and expand…

The decline of the independent, scholar-scientist closeted in a library and/or laboratory resulting from increased social stress on universities for "more scholar per dollar" and "more relevance for the real world" predicts an inevitable shift to action research. The shift in system from relatively independent basic researchers…

Designed by the Monroe County Library System as a cooperative venture with Model Cities and the Adult Basic Education Department of the City School District of Rochester, New York, the project explored the feasibility of using socially oriented programs and area canvass by library aides to uncover communication needs and recruit enrolless for an…

In spring 1974, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) embarked on a specific project related to Indian control of schools. The objective was to have, by the end of FY 75, at least 1/4 (50) of the bureau schools operating under a management system chosen by those served by the schools. Relevant to this, the Interior Department implemented the…

A survey of urban agencies sought to discover: 1) their perceived and actual information needs; 2) the kinds of information they used; 3) the nature of their information problems; and 4) their attitudes toward and the feasibility of a computerized information retrieval system. Results showed that speed and ease of use were the controlling factors…