For more than two decades the U.S. Department of Education has supported campus- and community-based prevention programs through a number of programs and activities. For example, in 1987 the Department convened the first annual National Meeting for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education as a forum to disseminate…

The State Agency for Title I in Tennessee completed a demonstration research project on the identification of community needs in the state in 1966. It was the purpose of this project to demonstrate at least two things: (1) a means of identifying community problems, (2) a method of opening channels of communication between professionals and lay…

This instructor's guide provides a description of the Johns Hopkins Substance Abuse Curriculum, detailed educational models and other aids for conducting substance abuse teaching activities. The guide is in six sections with Section 1 as a brief introduction and list of 20 references. Section 2 sketches the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Substance Abuse…

The senior seminar course in speech communication at Ripon College (Wisconsin) helps students to draw together their educational experiences and to focus on the task of planning for immediate and long-term career goals. In its initial year, it was taught in a two-semester sequence. The first semester focused on the discipline and the profession…

This report orients the reader to the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation (MCTP) and gives an overview of the ongoing research activities being conducted within the project. The MCTP is a National Science Foundation funded statewide undergraduate program for students who plan to become specialist mathematics and science upper elementary…

This document contains the (1) final status report and project performance report and (2) final evaluation report of a career education project to develop a demonstration model to train school personnel to infuse career education into the curriculum. The first report outlines objectives and major activities involving parents, higher education, and…