Describes how to set up service-learning courses (where students go out into the community and do writing projects for local businesses) and how to anticipate certain types of problems. Discusses benefits, both pedagogical and civic/humanitarian, that this real-world approach brings to the teaching of technical writing and professional writing.…

A survey of 67 professionals who design and implement leadership programs identified who they considered to be ideal partners. Results indicate that institutions of higher education should work with community-based organizations to plan and deliver these programs. (Contains 13 references.) (JOW)

Describes the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative in Morton High School District 201, Cicero, IL, which used a social ecological systems perspective to implement its goals. Social-emotional learning and violence-prevention strategies were provided at the levels of the community, school, and individual. Creation of a safe school environment…

Outlines the development process and essential elements of a crisis communication strategy. Key steps include: (1) selecting a spokesperson; (2) publicizing the spokesperson's identity; (3) preparing a crisis notebook; (4) providing cell phones; (5) choosing a news conference location; (6) rehearsing crisis scenarios; and (7) obtaining interview…

Sketches the background of the issue "Teams, Communities and Networks", reflects the increasing importance of its theme, and introduces four contributions that include two research papers, one paper dedicated to "Teacher Education Around the World", and a book review. (Author/KHR)

With the advent of globalization and the growing concept that schools are marketplaces of ideas, educational administrators need guidance in ethical decision making. Moral dilemma is defined, ethical models are presented, and a process is described in which facts, resolution options, and values are reflected upon and decisions made based on…

Reports that thinking innovatively and taking prudent risks to bring a golf driving range to Los Angeles City College (California) helped unite the community with the college. Chronicles the long-term and complex partnership process behind this development, which led to a change in campus culture and reinvigorated the campus and community…

Uses a praxis methodology to explore the possibility of student transformation through participation in an interprofessional university-community partnership (the Neighbor-to-Neighbor program involving Saint Louis University). The experiences of participants in one partnership provided a focal point for questioning assumptions about the nature of…

Asserting that exploration of the role of higher education in community building is not unique to the United States, describes examples of collaborative efforts involving universities and communities working together in the United States, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, and Mexico. (EV)

Examined school officials' efforts to implement family and community involvement activities to reduce the number of disciplinary actions and ensure school climates focused on learning. Longitudinal data from elementary and secondary schools indicated that regardless of schools' prior discipline rates, the more family and community involvement…

Discusses why liberal and professional education must be reinvented to include socially responsive knowledge as a key component of every college student's education. Describes faculty attitudes toward civic engagement and faculty initiatives at Portland State University. (EV)

Describes the community involvement and redevelopment efforts of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, including the implications for curriculum, the importance of evaluation, and the need to institutionalize such efforts. (EV)

Asserts that juxtaposing traditional notions of liberal education with emerging views of civic engagement, captured most forcefully by the service learning movement, reveals common themes rooted in a democratic vision of society and the power of education to advance citizenship. (EV)

Describes one middle school's two-week end-of-school-year unit called Community Studies, in which students select several activities (from more than 40, many of them outdoors), which are assessed through portfolios. (SR)

By developing broad community input and support, a Louisiana district (Monroe City Schools) passed a $59 million property tax package. Offers 10 strategies for winning campaigns. (MLF)