This conference was sponsored jointly by Valencia Community College and the Institute of Higher Education of the University of Florida. The presentations of the conference speakers and panelists are provided here. In keynoting the conference, Gunder Myran offered a description of "community-based education" as the ideal future of the community…

This report contains the texts of six speeches, and recommendations of 15 citizen discussion groups from the 1976 Nebraska Conference on Library Services. The theme of the conference, "The Citizen Challenge," and discussion topics are based on concerns expressed by the 1,403 Nebraska citizens who were interviewed in a series of Statewide…

Based on a series of mini-conferences, this monograph presents ideas and thoughts of members of the Rotary International organization on the concept of collaboration in career education. First, a brief description of Rotary International is provided. Next, several specific examples are given of ways in which local clubs are already involved in…

This manual is the outgrowth of a workshop sponsored by the National Association of the Deaf in 1969 to develop guidelines on deaf leadership training for community interaction. The manual contains: (1) "A Welcome and a Challenge" by Robert L. Lankenau; (2) "The Critical Need for Leadership" by Don G. Pettingill; (3) "The National Census--A…

This conference report contains a list of conference participants, conference schedule, keynote speeches, excerpts from selected workshops, and participants' responses to a conference evaluation questionnaire. The Director of the Bureau of Child Health in New York City emphasized in her keynote speech the importance of health care and outlined two…

During 1972-1973, the Commission on Youth Education in Environmental Conservation for the State of New York sponsored a series of six regional conferences. They were designed to explore needs and solutions in environmental education at the regional level, demonstrate the concept of total community involvement in environmental education, and…

Included are 11 papers presented at the 1976 annual meeting of the National Association for Environmental Education. Papers include classroom activities, teaching value clarification, community education programs, curriculum considerations, and quality of life discussions. (RH)

The papers and transcripts included in this report were presented at the EPDA Institute for in-service training of administrators and trustees of small colleges held at Eureka College, Illinois, in August 1970. The papers included are: "Issues and Problems of the Small Colleges in the Seventies," by Frederic W. Ness; "The…

Suggestions for the improvement of the Associated Schools Project focus on involving students in their community under the assumption that students' attitudes toward society and the world as a whole begin with their attitudes toward their immediate environment. (JH)

A summary of the content of a national conference on career education as a cooperative effort is presented in this report. Included are descriptions of career education practices now in existence, summaries of sessions related to conceptual efforts and technical skills required for career education, and comments from various critics of career…

Continuity and balance in early childhood education was the topic of a Regional Seminar that took place 21 and 22 May, 1971 at the University of British Columbia sponsored jointly by the Canadian and United States National Committees of OMEP, members of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. (Author/CB)

Representatives of 15 nursing programs participated in the conference conducted by the Nursing Advisory Service of the National League for Nursing and the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, with the Assistance of the Department of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs of the National League for Nursing and cosponsored by…

Summarizing the results of a conference of 30 Maryland media specialists, this report provides illustrations of a variety of media services to augment instruction in the skills of reading, listening, and viewing. Part I consists of background essays, and Part II details a program of media services for elementary, intermediate, and senior high…

Leaders in public and institutional vocational education discussed the needs, characteristics, and problems of inmates in correctional institutions at a 2-week seminar, in order to provide a basis for program planning and curriculum development. The general objective was elaborated into twelve programatic objectives which include the following:…