Formation of, and cooperation between, college and community organizations to achieve the most favorable impact of an urban college upon the surrounding populace are two of the highlights of this article. (CK)

Review of research on employee relocation in the United Kingdom and North America identified barriers to relocation and types of personal and financial support provided by organizations. Force-field analysis assessed the relationship between barriers and organizational interventions, particularly in UK local government agencies. (SK)

The problem of an American Indian not on a tribal roll is that he is not a legal ward of any particular tribe and is therefore ineligible for financial aid for educational purposes. The relocation program has moved Indians from reservations to urgan areas to encourage assimilation, further adding to the identity problem. Urban Indians are…

Practical guidelines to help faculty members plan sabbaticals abroad are presented. It is recommended that plans be begun two years prior to the departure time in order to prepare a proposal if necessary, secure funding, and make housing and schooling arrangements for the family. Specific funding sources are identified, including U.S. federal…

The project was conducted in cooperation with two Concentrated Employment Program agencies operating in Northern Minnesota, the Rural Minnesota CEP and the Duluth CEP. All persons relocated in this project were referred by the Rural Minnesota CEP and the Duluth CEP. The objectives of the project were: (1) to provide mobility services to the…

Implications of recent developments in refugee outflow from Indochina demand a reexamination of American policy on Indochinese refugees. These developments include patterns of increased Vietnamese and Laotian refugee outflow despite Vietnam's disapproval of departure and Laos' liberalizing economic policies; the greater influx of "low…

Objective: This study evaluates participant perception of neighborhood, economic, and housing well-being of residents 4 and 5 years after forced relocation from a public housing complex in Atlanta, Georgia. Method: The study used a mixed-method, posttest-only design with two data points. Focus groups with 93 participants combined qualitative,…

This paper examines the relocation of Athabasca University, an open-access, distance education institution, from Edmonton to Athabasca, Alberta, Canada, and the effect of that move on the library. Factors that helped make the move successful are discussed, including the 5-year institutional planning process; a government grant for the purchase of…

The effectiveness of using financial assistance and supportive services was studied in order to increase the ability of unemployed workers and reduce unemployment in Georgia. The project's close cooperation with the ongoing program of the employment service is evidenced by the fact that 99 percent of the workers obtained their jobs through the…

This eight-part outline delineates a master plan for the provision of educational services and assistance to adult refugees residing within California. Part I identifies the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) as the department with responsibility for the master plan. Part II outlines departmental goals and objectives,…

Government relocation assistance programs, designed to move unemployed workers from areas where suitable employment opportunities do not exist to areas where jobs are available, were examined in detail for Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and the United States and briefly for Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, West Germany, and the…

The current flux of conditions associated with the slow growth of enrollment admittedly makes projecting enrollment to the year 2000 highly speculative. The only way this process can be handled is by generating several conceptually meaningful series of enrollment projections. The three sets of enrollment projections in this report are based on…

Two papers are presented which were given before the Social Science Section of the 1968 Annual Conference of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The first paper reports on the results of a research effort designed to identify factors associated with successful relocation of people from a rural or small community environment into large,…

The labor mobility program is designed to provide such counseling, technical, and financial assistance as will be needed to place retrained persons on jobs that make decent wages in other communities, in contrast to those programs which retrain persons for local employment. The general objectives include: developing jobs for persons having…