Presenting implications for a practical strategy in community development, this article deals with the exchange: within local Volunteer Fire Departments (VFD); between a VFD and its local public; between and among VFD's which compose the fire service; and between the fire service as an organized collectivity and the regional public. (JC)

Describes a student-initiated plan for promoting institutional change and articulates the core principles that guided efforts in influencing faculty, administrative and legislative groups. (Author)

Facetiously proposes to transfer all public school students in Manhattan to the Bronx and Brooklyn in order to increase state school aid to New York City. Briefly describes recent research on how the New York State school finance system might be modified in order to increase its equity. (JG)

A total of 411 public school teachers participated in a project researching the highly personal experiences and phenomena encountered by individual educators in schools and colleges as they "adopt" educational innovations. (Author/MLF)

The basic "key design features" of the programs include increased program flexibility, self-contained instructional packages known as modules, and performance based and cognitively supported skills. (Author)

Describes a counseling program at the University of Arizona which is a short, intensive transactional analysis study problem group. Many students are able to apply what they learn to other areas of their lives. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to examine the process and effectiveness of group counseling as a part of a training program conducted through a Labor Department grant. Members of the training group had better work attendance and less employee turnover than a comparable group not in the training program. (Author)

Incoming freshmen experienced a summer planning conference designed to alter attitudes. Two semantic differential instruments were developed to measure change along twenty attitudinal scales. Results indicate attitudinal changes can be measured by the flexible and sensitive semantic differential type of instrument and a short program of…

Reports the results of a study that examined the administrative strategy used by Pope John in promoting changes in the Roman Catholic Church and suggests some possible applications of this strategy to American public education. (Author)

Based on a study of 56 computerized decision-support systems, discusses the potential value of various decision-support systems, examines the challenges and risks such systems pose to managers, and suggests strategies for meeting those challenges and risks. (JG)

Argues that although today's teachers are better educated than ever before, they also need authority to match their responsibilities, an environment conducive to professional growth, and the support of society. (Author/JG)

Discusses the importance of emphasizing the active role of the student and of considering nonschool areas of student learning in the curriculum development process. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20006, single copies, $2.00. (JG)

The authors present a technique they have found useful with clients seeking sex therapy. (HMV)