The State University of New York College of Cortland received the 1973 Distinguished Achievement Award for its Project Change, a performance-based early childhood teacher education program. Also cited for distinguished achievement were a) Teachers College of Ball State University, Indiana for an experimental program designed to include…

This paper focuses on the increasing number of senior citizens currently on college campuses. The author discusses some special programs made available by several universities to retirees who return to school. These programs offer special scholarships, counseling services, and seminars. Some of the universities specifically mentioned are the…

This evaluative history of New York City's recent experiments in public education documents three projects: Ocean Hill-Brownsville, IS 201, and Two Bridges. This study employs a process oriented and a qualitative methodology which relies most on field observation and participant-observers. The Institute study observed the new community boards,…

A non-profit corporation, called the Santa Cruz Community Service Television Project (S.C.C.S.T.P.), is proposed that would produce videotape for the purpose of intra-community communication. The corporation would use portable videotape equipment to record a variety of community programs, such as an ecological history of the Monterey Bay area, the…

The Volunteers in Education Project is designed to utilize community volunteers to provide, without charge, various services to the school staff. Other goals are to reinforce the instruction of the teaching staff with volunteers trained for particular service, to offer individual help to students, to make available the talents and resources of the…

In 1968 Federal City College (FCC) in Washington, D.C. was given funds to explore the role of college-community relationships in urban higher education. The present report relates the findings of this project's second phase, which was threefold; (1) to identify and explore various means for FCC and the community to engage in joint efforts toward…

This study documents findings concerning rural planning of the six-year MIDNY pilot project in community resource development. Subject headings are: Setting; Planning For Rural Areas (Background); Rural Planning Lessons From The Central N. Y. Experience. Results show that no organization or agency working alone can be as effective as several…

Contributions derived from ESEA Title III funds to the new environmental thrusts in American education are portrayed in this quarterly journal. These funds have provided opportunities for development of innovative, model environmental education programs in many local school districts. Responding to new educational needs, the projects have sought…

A manual intended as an instructor's aid in presenting a Civil Defense Adult Education Course is presented. It contains 10 lesson plans: Course Introduction, Modern Weapons and Radioactive Fallout (Effects), Modern Weapons and Radioactive Fallout (Protection), National Civil Defense Program, National Shelter Program (Community Shelters), National…

This book describes the process by which different agencies with common objectives can be effectively brought together to share resources in a cooperative effort. Emphasis of the discussion is on cooperative processes rather than on case studies of particular cooperative programs, although the author does describe numerous examples of interagency…

RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) is one program of ACTION--The Agency for Volunteer Service. ACTION, created in 1971, is a Federal agency which administers a number of volunteer programs. Its purpose is to provide a recognized role in the community and a meaningful life in retirement for older adults through significant volunteer service.…

The purposes of the Wyoming Human Services Project are delivery of human services, determination of how best to train and use human service personnel, and development of suggestions and guidelines for other rapidly growing communities about how to deliver human services most effectively. (Author/KR)

The article examines the characteristics, and the management by a community team approach, of child abuse and neglect on an Indian reservation. Journal availability: see EC 111 256. (DLS)

In keeping with the recommendations of the Report of the Arts, Education and Americans Panel for expansion of the role of national, state, and local arts agencies in school-based arts education programs, the author argues for greater interaction among arts organizations, educators, and community groups in order to make art integral to everyday…

A recent study indicated the types of problems encountered by community residences (halfway-house) staff in the development and maintenance of community-based programs for persons with developmental disabilities. (Author)