Assesses the role of community colleges in enhancing international communication and understanding through educational cooperation. Urges the involvement of all American postsecondary institutions, and encourages the construction of linkages between American institutions and foreign universities and colleges. Underscores the need for appropriate…

This article traces the development of community education in Hawaii, focusing on efforts to disseminate the concept, to gain state support, and to secure funding. Part of a theme issue on community education. (SJL)

Although a substantial portion of hospital beds are in institutions that are in multiple hospital systems, the possible benefits to be gained through participation in such systems do not appear to be of sufficient magnitude to either core teaching hospitals or their parent universities to persuade them to join or form a multiple system.…

Argues for cooperation between university language departments and Self-Instructional Language Programs (SILP) coordinations, as well as for the recognition of the National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) as a valuable center for standardization and evaluation. (AM)

A workable rationale for educational innovation should center around nationally and regionally coordinated research, development, and dissemination; a local network of experimental schools linked to regional and national centers; a larger network of dissemination schools for "road testing" innovations; and comprehensive training programs for staff…

Faculty and career planning and placement combine efforts to bring about a change. (Author)

The author describes how utilization of the Delphi technique with career education content enables elementary school counselors to effectively involve other school personnel in career guidance activities. (Author/HLM)

Describes the collaboration between a parish elementary school and a university that offers the children a possibility of going to college and enables university education and psychology interns to obtain real world experience. Lists the collaboration strategies used, such as mentoring. Discusses benefits for the elementary students, interns, and…

Rooted in the business community, the Boise Future Foundation evolved into a trisector initiative: public, private, and volunteer entity. Housed at urban Boise State University (Idaho), the foundation examines critical community issues and informs public policy, debate, and action. The foundation's evolution, highlights, critical accomplishments,…

The European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) supports faculty exchanges as part of regular cooperation among European universities. Survey of 485 faculty receiving grants to lecture abroad in 1990-91 examined participant characteristics, arrangement of the teaching visit, obstacles to planned exchanges,…

Analyzed annual electronic journal usage data for the NorthEast Research Library (NERL) consortium. Discusses the high degree of skew in journal use; describes results of a cluster analysis that revealed three distinct groups of institutions based on journal use; and recommends that institutions consider their consortial membership and organize…

Community development offers universities unique opportunities for collaboration with communities and enhanced opportunities for residents. Colleges and universities should think in terms of developing ongoing, not short-term, programs and concern themselves with the entrepreneurial aspects of program development. Similarly, communities should…

Examines the outcomes of dual enrollment as a means of acceleration in the Community College System and the State University System in Florida. Concludes that such programs are effective only if students are able to successfully progress to a subsequent course in series of courses. (NB)

Examined is a professor's views on a principal-professor exchange program. The role of principal was temporarily filled by the author (a professor) in six schools in North Carolina and Ohio. Six shared characteristics are discussed. (SI)

This article describes the Valley Education Consortium, a long-term, ongoing school-university partnership to achieve concurrent improvements in secondary school curriculum and assessment. The partnership consists of 10 school districts in western Oregon, three county education service districts, the Oregon State University-Western Oregon State…