This vocational student chapter officer handbook contains guidelines to help officers become more aware of their leadership responsibilities. The handbook is divided into eight sections. The first two sections provide an introduction to the handbook and an explanation of state and national support for vocational student organizations. Section 3…

The study explored the possible relationships among interpersonal characteristics of one's self, ideal community leadership style, optimism toward community, restrictive-permissive attitude toward group member behavior, restrictive-permissive approach to community problem solving, conceptual knowledge and skill in the pairing of problems of groups…

The objective of the three phases of this institute was to change the attitudes of the participating school administrators, school board members, community leaders, counselors, and teachers so that they would be willing to accept responsibility for dealing with the problems of school desegregation in their respective school districts. Phase I…

This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Imaging Futuristic Career Guidance Goals. It defines the Coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is given in the accompanying module, but…

This Coordinator's Guide accompanies a module workbook, which is directed toward working guidance personnel in school settings, grades 7-14 including counselors, administrators and career specialists. The topic is the founding and improvement of Career Resource Centers and the Module focuses on a systematic process of implementing this objective.…

This study examines the information sources and population characteristics that differentiate political opinion-leaders from nonleaders. A telephone poll of 339 subjects provided data indicating that political opinion leaders receive more information about candidates from all media, as well as through interpersonal communication, than do…

An exercise is presented that is designed as a training aid for junior administrative and/or academic staff in their first 6 years of service in universities. It is intended to help participants think about management principles in general while trying out their own ideas for solving the specific problems outlined. It will also permit individuals…

To determine degree of local support for industrialization as a means of rural economic development, leaders and influentials in three South Carolina counties were interviewed in 1977. Each was asked to define "development" and to list and rank three aspects of his county he especially liked and its most important needs or problems.…

The study analyzed support patterns for two predominant "liberal" development strategies ("growth centers" and the consolidation of government services) among elites from communities in a largely underdeveloped rural region of Wisconsin. Analytic focus was twofold: (1) to assess overall levels of support among community elites,…

The training package is designed to assist public defender agencies in developing an in-house capability for training new staff attorneys. The materials contained in the package were developed by the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia, a program designated by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration as an "Exemplary Project."…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. The focus of the module is on a "planned change" process to implement career education programs. A significant amount of the module's content is oriented toward exposing the learner to various tools to be used in dealing…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. It addresses itself to developing an understanding of evaluation as it applies to accountability and decision making. The learning objectives are: to understand the accountability function of evaluation; to relate…

A great monument is being blasted out of Thunderhead Mountain near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Slowly, Chief Crazy Horse emerges from the stone. One day he will sit on his Indian pony pointing over the Black Hills as though saying, "My lands are where my dead lie buried." This biography of Crazy Horse begins with sculptor Korczak…

Participation Training for Adult Education serves as a manual, guide, and resource for leaders and participants interested in establishing a program of adult learning called group-participation training. Goals emphasize participants learning about themselves as learners, how they relate to and can help others, and exploring the dynamics of a…

The project to examine and improve the use of advisory committees in vocational education in Michigan produced this three-part document: a guide for the effective use of advisory committees, a report on the use of advisory committees, and a workshop leaders's guide. The self-instructional guide for the effective use of educational advisory…