Administrators are continually seeking university-community engagement. Continuing education departments are in a unique position to further these initiatives by connecting academic faculty, staff, and students with emerging community needs. This article provides a model to demonstrate the significant role continuing educators can play in…

Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of university study licenses such as the "Licet canon" and the "Cum ex eo" which, when issued by the Vatican in the 13th century, allowed unordained parochial rectors and ordained priests to obtain higher education. Concludes that study licenses improved the education of the parochial…

The judgmental policies of campus ministry held by campus ministers at state-supported universities were studied. The campus ministers were grouped according to the campus minister's ministry group, years of personal campus ministry experience, size of student body, campus minister's position at the school, and the campus minister's age by decade…

This collection of essays on the campus ministry attempts to stimulate interest in developing an efficacious, contemporary role for religion in campus life. An introduction by Clement W. Welch states the place and relationship of the church in the academic community. A section of descriptive essays follows. John J. Kirvan, C.S.P., describes the…

This paper characterizes published church-based health promotion programs, providing information on types of papers being published, history and growth of church involvement in health promotion, elements of program attractiveness and success, barriers to implementation, problems during implementation, and implications for practice. (Author/SM)

The New York Theological Seminary combines workshops and courses to develop practical experience in the ministry. The seminary offers a one-year internship program for urban ministry, a Urban Year Master's Program, and a training workshop for store front preachers in community leadership. (PG)

The Adult Education with Theological Reflection program developed jointly by the Church of England and University College Chester is a postgraduate program for adult educators working in church contexts. The open learning, modular approach facilitates part-time study. (SK)

Clarifies the constitutional issue raised by government efforts to cooperate with faith-based organizations, noting that while programs can be constitutional without necessarily being good public policy, too frequently political and constitutional controversies mix these two considerations, thus confusing those trying to understand and resolve…

Introduces action research as a tool for use in religious education that can be employed by congregationally based educators. States that action research as an educational strategy suggests that educators engage in a cycle of observing, reflecting, planning, and acting. Includes references. (CMK)

This paper traces the history of professional meetings of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians from 1951 to 1976. It uses primary historical documents, primarily the proceedings of the various conferences, to trace the history of these meetings, the content of the papers presented, and the resolutions and actions taken. These meetings gave the…

The Pennsylvania Commission for United Ministries in Higher Education is seven Protestant communions working together to carry out a Christian Ministry in colleges and universities in the state. As part of the organization's tenth anniversary celebration conference, two presentations were given concerning future directions for higher education in…

Reported are the results of a survey of 222 United Methodist campus ministers across the country in both private and public colleges and universities. The report covers the personal backgrounds and careers of the ministers, their views of campus ministry goals and programs, how the campus ministries are financed and administered, and the quality…

The future of the disadvantaged is discussed in these proceedings of a 1963 conference of the American Country Life Association. Papers presented at 3 panel discussions give detailed information on the disadvantaged. The panel discussion on the types of disadvantaged people covered American Indians, Appalachian whites, migrants, and Negroes. The…

Legal education is moving in the direction of the jurisprudential, more clinical education, cosmopolitanizing of faculty and student body, shortening three-year period to two years, more specialization, and secularization of church-related schools. (Author/KE)