A model for coordinating an internship program in a large psychology department is presented. The most successful components of the program involve a personalized advising system and a departmentally-defined contract between the student and faculty sponsor. An integral part of the program is an advising and consultation procedure. Each prospective…

This report summarizes state-by-state data on the number of children and adults in foster homes administered by child welfare or social service agencies. As of December 1985, there were approximately 261,000 children in out-of-home foster care, including 54,000 handicapped children, of whom 14,000 were mentally retarded. Telephone interviews and…

Since 1974, Glendale Community College (GCC) has offered a variety of biology, social science, and language classes at a field station located on the Baja California peninsula, Republic of Mexico. This guide to GCC's Baja California Field Studies Program (BCFSP) provides manuals, forms, job descriptions, contracts with participating organizations,…

In 1985, in response to a sharp decline in student enrollment in vocational programs, especially in forestry and drafting technologies, Chemeketa Community College (CCC) (Oregon) adopted a carefully targeted marketing technique involving the use of a sales representative to approach prospective students directly. A temporary part-time position of…

Rapid technological advances will double America's information system every 8 years. As a result, adults in and out of the work force will need continual updating of the information and skills they use in all aspects of life. Of the current 58.4 million adults engaged in some form of organized education, only 12.4 million are attending colleges or…

The report presents results from a survey of four states (Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, and Nebraska) regarding mandates for the provision of special education services for children below 3 years of age. An overview of each state's mandate contains a brief description of the law and how it came to be; an explanaton of the way responsibilities are…

The influences of computer technology on college nursing education programs and health care delivery systems are discussed in eight papers. The use of computers is considered, with attention to clinical care, nursing education and continuing education, administration, and research. Attention is also directed to basic computer terminology, computer…

The Central Indiana Committee for Foreign Language Study was organized by college language departments in 1982 and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as an autonomous collaborative group of interested French, Spanish, and German teachers at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. The purposes of the committee are to…

A research project was designed to develop and validate instrumentation and procedures for a comprehensive internal and external evaluation of Wisconsin's Vocational, Technical and Adult Education Field/Community Services programs. A review of evaluation literature pertaining to adult and continuing education, the identification of statewide…

This document presents a brief summary of the long-range planning activities for vocational education. The first of four main parts describes the process (developing the plan), which involved describing present and past operation of the system, determining desirable system characteristics for the 1980s, and formulating recommendations and…

A group of 12 federally funded community mental health centers which make effective use of paraprofessionals is described. The purpose is to make mental health policy makers and service agency staff members aware of the wide range of innovative service models in existence in which paraprofessionals play diverse and crucial roles. A case study for…

Current inservice programs are criticized on the grounds that they do not achieve the objective of improving teachers' mastery of their subjects. It is suggested that these programs can be improved by increasing professional communication between teachers, providing more assistance from specialized consultants, increasing teacher participation in…

This publication, part of the Professional Development series, provides an overview of the setting, background, values, and assumptions of state education agencies and their role in inservice teacher education. Ways in which these agencies can facilitate and coordinate program development, activities, financial support, and human resources are…

Information in this two-part report is provided to help directors of college reading and study skills centers plan for survival in an era of declining enrollment. After introductory material noting the need for such centers as colleges increase student retention efforts, Part I of the report examines six administrative factors that affect a…

This publication is composed of two separate entities: a relatively brief manuscript entitled "Development of a Model for Planning an Educational Facility" and a much more lengthy Midi-Practicum Report that describes the implementation of the plans outlined in the first manuscript. Each of the three authors wrote one section of the first…