The sytems view of organizations recognizes that all parts of the organization, including people and organizations within networks, affect all the other parts. This study examines the interorganizational relationships of a rural community human service delivery system in northern Minnesota. The coordination and integration of human services appear…

This U.S. House of Representatives bill (H.R. 2198), to be cited, if enacted, as the Intergovernmental Consumer Assistance Act, would add a new title to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968: Title VII-Intergovernmental Cooperation with Respect to Consumer Assistance and Protection. The objective is to establish greater cooperation among…

Established to initiate innovative, creative communication channels among medical schools in Michigan, the Michigan Medical Schools Council of Deans encourages cooperative efforts in program areas and long-range planning. This article describes recent projects and activities of the Council which has a full-time paid staff. (JT)

In India, training colleges prepare teachers for high schools and training schools prepare the primary school teacher. Presents approaches made to relate colleges and schools of education to the true working school situatio n. (PG)

A case study of the Graduate Studies Center at Milliken University, a cooperative project of Milliken (a private, church-related undergraduate university) and four state institutions, funded by the Illinois Higher Education Cooperation Act (HECA), reveals benefits to students, the state schools, and Milliken (the broker) with no threat to…

The article reports on a survey made by the Center for Occupational Education at North Carolina State University which turned up a variety of services that local government employment offices have rendered to schools. (Author)

Paper presented in part at the National Seminar on Adult Education (Chicago, Ill., February 1968), based upon research for doctoral dissertation at University of Chicago.

As educational enrollments, resources, and confidence decline, complexity, ambiguity, and dissatisfaction increase. This mixture of growth and decline creates an adverse environment for educational leaders. History shows, however, that adversity can have important uses and profound advantages. Leaders can use adversity to help define new and more…

A discussion of the Teacher Education Center Act in Florida is presented within the framework of historical collaboration between different components united to achieve mutual objectives. The basic problems facing successful organization of teacher centers are seen as threefold: institutions of higher education believe that they hold the primary…

Two teams, each comprised of teachers, a researcher, and a trainer/developer spent fifteen and a half months implementing the Interactive Research and Development on Teaching (IR&DT) strategy, a specialized educational research medthodology stressing interactive rather than linear communication between teachers and researchers. These teams are…

THE OREGON PROGRAM IS A 4-YEAR STATEWIDE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM. IT IS A THREE-WAY COOPERATIVE ALIGNMENT AMONG OREGON'S LOCAL SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ACHIEVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS BY IMPROVING CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE STUDY AND REFINEMENT OF MATERIALS, STAFF UTILIZATION, AND…

The purposes of this paper are to assist those currently considering the establishment of regional educational laboratories to better understand the complex organizational and interorganizational environment in which such laboratories would exist and to help officials make rational decisions regarding how best to facilitate educational service…

Effective staff development programs require environments receptive to change; programming that is institutionally integrated and developmental; program execution that is comprehensive, dynamic, cost-effective, and that can be evaluated; and activity that is pragmatic and action-oriented. Present staff development programs must improve delivery…