These proceedings, intended to provide an outline of the basic concepts presented during the conference of administrators of multidiscipline health-related organizations and to serve as a stimulus for improving training programs in University Affiliated Facilities (UAFs), include 16 papers presented by conference resource persons. They are…

Profiles three programs recognized for exemplary rural special education programs. Describes a program for severely handicapped birth-through-three children in an isolated mountainous Tennessee community, a multidisciplinary special education team that provides an itinerant resource room for an Alaska school district of 22,000 square miles, and…

Reviews school reform movements and strategies. Describes, in depth, the School Development Program (SDP), whose key factor is parent involvement. Demonstrates the empirical validity of the elements of the SDP. (FMW)

Recognizing that today's graduate student is tomorrow's professor, some institutions have begun working to convince minority-group members that faculty careers will be prestigious, rewarding, and available. Their efforts center on increased financial support in the form of graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. (MLW)

A 12-week primary care elective for third-year medical students at Boston University School of Medicine is described. Clinical sites at three Boston community health centers are coordinated to provide a longitudinal, integrated experience in ambulatory pediatrics and medicine. (Author/MLW)

This is the twelfth annual volume of outstanding campus initiatives published by the National Council of Instructional Administrators (NCIA). The volume contains sections corresponding to the five categories in which programs were originally submitted to NCIA for its annual Exemplary Initiatives Awards. Section 1 includes the descriptions of the…

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF), an independent agency of the U.S. government, works in Latin America and the Caribbean to promote equitable, participatory, and sustainable self-help development by awarding grants directly to local organizations. Its principal strategy is to support public-private partnerships that mobilize local, national,…

This paper reports on the status of dual credit enrollment programs in Illinois, using two recent studies on the distribution and utilization of dual credit/enrollment in the state as information sources. The Illinois Community College Presidents' Council surveyed all 48 Illinois community colleges regarding dual enrollment for the academic years…

One major component of the efforts to promote the use of technology and distance education in South Dakota and specifically of Phase III of the Connecting the Schools Project-an initiative announced in the spring of 1999 by Governor Janklow that built a statewide intranet among all 176 school districts--was a comprehensive evaluation activity. The…

The Mekong e-Sim involved more than 140 students across Australia and overseas participating in an online roleplay-simulation over a four-week period. Set in the Mekong region of South East Asia, it allowed for debates over development issues arising from clear-cut differences and conflicts in values and interests. The geography and engineering…

InterMath, a five-year effort funded through the National Science Foundation, is a statewide Internet-based project with the goal of designing and implementing a series of workshops and ongoing support programs that feature contemporary applications of technology and mathematics pedagogy in the middle grades. Technology is used to deliver the…

This brief paper summarizes information concerning use of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) disability classification by states and the nature of state-level activities related to the education of children and youth with TBI. It notes addition of the TBI disability category to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990 and provides the…

These Proceedings of the Third Internet Librarian Conference include the following papers: (1) "Networking the Network: What Information Technology Fluency Can Do for You" (Jose Aguinaga, Kitty Little, and C.D. McLean); (2) "Moving Out of HTML into Database Solutions for the Web" (Kristin Antelman); (3) "Creating Your Own…

This document contains the following papers on partnerships across organizations from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2002 conference: (1) "Modeling Instruction with Modern Information and Communications Technology: The MIMIC Project" (Ronale J. Abate; Jim Meinke; Mary Jo Cherry; Pam Cook; Jennifer Merritt); (2)…

Red River College, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest and most comprehensive institute of applied learning in the province. It provides education and training to 32,000 full- and part-time enrollees per year, and offers more than 110 diploma, certificate, and apprenticeship programs. The 2000/2001 annual employment and satisfaction survey of College…