This booklet offers guidance to help schools open up their premises and facilities for outside use and to enhance their links with the local community. It highlights the benefits of partnership and offers real examples of the type of activity which is already undertaken in many schools and how it is organized and funded. Also covered are the legal…

The Higher Education Exchange is part of a movement to strengthen higher education's democratic mission and foster a more democratic culture throughout American society. Working in this tradition, the Higher Education Exchange publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic…

The West Virginia State Board of Education assumed administrative control of the Lincoln county school system in June 2000, following a state report on the county?s failure to make adequate progress in rectifying major deficiencies identified in an October 1999 audit. One of the conditions for regaining local board control was that the Lincoln…

Article gives steps for preparing public relations publications that will communicate ideas and help secure public support for education. (GB)

Close ties with business, industry, and community groups are essential if schools are to make career education a viable element of the curriculum. Some examples of partnerships across the country are given. (MS)

Article presented a list of questions designed to learn from the school trustee how effective his role in developing educational objectives is. (RK)

The career education program at Williamsport Elementary School, Hagerstown, Maryland, is seen as a principal reason for the development of a new and growing interest and confidence in the school on the part of the local business and industry community. (Author/KP)

Proposes that a program of consultation and community resource development has a valid place in the operation of a college counseling center. (Author)

Author says that negativism must be countered with effective public relations and discusses several program pitfalls to avoid. (Editor)

Discusses the new relationship in higher education between the university and the "free" university community that surrounds it. (PG)

Presents a report of the problems, the planning, and the proposed activities of the New Brunswick, New Jersey, application for grants to attack the racial isolation of their community. Describes how three New Brunswick organizations applied for and received grant money. (Author/DN)

Introduces the following articles concerning communications in higher education and the use of value judgments in the media. (PG)

The University of the Americas has disrupted the social fabric of the town of Cholula, Mexico in an effort to provide an American college experience in a foreign setting. It has enriched some citizens of Cholula, pauperized others, and provided a questionable education for its students. (PG)

Address given at the 44th Annual Illinois Vocational Association Convention, August 17, 1973, Chicago

Discusses emerging steps toward integration and coordination of public services including using excess school and college space for community purposes; building extra space in order to provide room for other services; providing for education and social services through cooperative building ventures; joining schools and housing or commercial…