This report describes the rationale and training procedure employed in two summer inservice workshops sponsored by Auburn University's Title IV Center, and conducted by staff in their Counselor Education Department. The general goals were: (1) improved skill in communication, and (2) ability to engender helpful interpersonal relations. The…

The primary objective of the institute was to provide participants with a more complete understanding of (1) the need for career orientation for rural youth and (2) new concepts and implementation strategies in exemplary programs of career orientation and occupational education at the elementary, junior high, and senior high school levels. To…

The Institute was held during the summer of 1968 at the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College to explore problems and opportunities in integrated, interethnic education. The participants were 54 school board members, school superintendents, and other administrators representing more than half of the county school systems of West Virginia.…

Administrators, supervisors, and guidance counselors comprised the membership of this institute held from September 1, 1965 through August 31, 1966. The objectives were mainly "problem" oriented. The development of strategies for problem solving, and the evaluation of legal requirements involved in school desegregation were dealt with by…

Through involving participants (fifteen elementary teachers) in studying and planning to cope with special instructional problems associated with school integration, the university and the Board of Education developed a project to achieve "quality integrated education" in the two schools over several years. The impetus for this Institute…

A series of three papers on the Harvard University Archives is presented. The first paper gives the history of the Archives and describes the collections. The second paper deals with the accessioning and preservation of records. The third paper describes the reference service. In each paper the particular description of the Harvard University…

A series of three papers on the Illinois State Archives includes a report on the history, functions, and organization of the Archives Department; the accessioning and preservation of records by the State Records Section which accessions and arranges permanent records, describes holdings, and provides reference service to state officials and the…

The author discusses the processes of public relations and promotion as they relate specifically to university summer programs for high school students. He bases his conclusions on his experience with the Northwestern University Summer Speech Institute. Institute promotion activities fall into three areas: (1) direct advertising, through…

In this study, 3 institutes (summer 1970) for training teachers of migrant children were evaluated. Whether the 3 institutes brought about positive attitude change in the participants was selected as the basis of the evaluation, which used a non-equivalent control group design. There were 3 measures of teacher attitude: an adaptation of a semantic…

Thirty-seven secondary counselors attended a 2-week intensive training program at Carver Career and Technical Education Center to update their knowledge of vocational education and of the world of work, to improve their counseling and guidance techniques, and to develop new or revised plans of occupational guidance and counseling for their…

The Triple T final report documents describe the program from 1969 to 1971. One of the basic objectives of the project was to create statewide dialogue about problems in the area of social studies instruction, especially among Appalachian students, and about ways that social studies teachers and their teachers are trained. Three outcomes of the…

The University Council for Educational Administration (UCES) conducted meetings throughout the country during the late sixties and came to the conclusion that both the experience background of professors and the limited number of conceptual and methodological tools available to them stand in the way of providing effective inservice and preservice…

Papers presented at an English Language workshop represent topics discussed during the institute to inform and assist English teachers in meeting the needs of all the students in the classroom. The papers discuss an introduction to grammar as seen by a linguist, structural grammar, phonology, and transformational grammar. Specific examples are…

Presented are proceedings of a study institute designed to acquaint public school administrators with the role of the special education administrator and to present a general overview of special education trends as they might affect both the special and the general school administrator. Simulation games rather than lectures or group discussions…

This Institute was designed to fill the gap between the need for change and the barriers that frustrate change by focusing on the leadership development of local ABE directors through an administrative training program. This report outlines the objectives of the project, the methodology employed, and the outcomes. A significant outcome of the…