Examines lessons learned from successful linkages between community colleges and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors as the basis for future occupational training and employment programs. Reviews research examining CETA funding patterns in California and exemplary arrangements between community colleges and CETA nationwide.…

Summarizes the Council for Occupational Education's 1981-82 survey of current issues in occupational education. Cites articulation with business and industry, financial alternatives, and adult retraining for high technology occupations as the most important issues. Considers reasons issues such as life experience guidelines received low ratings.…

After teaching a high school physical education class about lifetime sports, the instructor and the class participated in a college laboratory experience, from which the college and high school instructors and the students benefitted. (CJ)

Describes the cooperative nature and content of Greek agricultural education and training activities and the efforts made to integrate cooperative studies into the national educational system. (CT)

For the last year and a half the R.T.P.I. North Branch (regional town planners) has been promoting the idea of cooperation between planners and environmental education teachers. The approach used (including initial assumptions), progress, and some lessons learned along the way are discussed. (Author/JN)

Discusses the preparation of English education graduates in general and of those at the University of Washington in particular. (AEA)

The Veterans Administration-medical school relationship is described as "cooperative and commensal." It is suggested that these cooperative ventures must be based on the premise that each operates for common goals from different power bases under different statutory and regulatory authority. (MLW)

The role of colleges and universities in corporate education can and should be substantially expanded, or academic institutions will be increasingly pushed aside by proprietary and nonprofit organizations. Issues to be addressed in this change include academic arrogance and corporate resentment, college faculty as consultants, and corporate…

Discusses the Adopt-a-School program, in which businesses donate services and volunteers to particular schools. Lists some of the companies involved, describes programs in eight cities, and warns of too much business influence on school philosophies and curricula. (RW)

Explores decision making strategies by program administrators regarding coordinating the program development functions of their agencies. Discusses program origins, orientation of resource persons, planning committees, supervision, and situational influences. (CT)

Under guidelines prepared by Sol LeWitt, an artist, students prepared wall murals in a team effort which included public school students, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Lauder Foundation, and the administrators of the art program in the New York City Schools. (KC)

Efficient articulation from community college to four-year institutions is becoming essential. Some technqiues and effective programs are presented. (Author/BB)

A five-college committee on international programs (University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College) is described. Most programs keep the cost to the student in the same range as normal tuition, etc. and students are enrolled in the normal courses of their overseas host institutions. (MLW)

Presents advantages and disadvantages of establishing a cooperative educational program for high-ability chemistry students in which governmental laboratory facilities are used by high school students. (CS)

Discusses the controversy surrounding the initial decision to establish, and the current decision to phase out, the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC), a computational chemistry center jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. (CS)