Explores the Community Resource Center (CRC), a model for community college leadership in community development. Describes the community projects and activities of six community colleges which have established CRCs. Emphasizes that the CRC's main purposes are to facilitate citizen involvement in community decision making and to improve community…

Describes the Young Writers' Workshops -- community-based Saturday writing seminars held for the elementary students of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. (SJL)

A community education project in Brooks County, Georgia, began in 1977 with five people, developed county-wide support, and now includes a community education county council, federal funding, volunteer programs, after-school programs, agricultural education (especially swine production), and a day-care center. (AN)

Suggests field trips and other community exploration activities to show students that reading exists as a useful skill outside the classroom. (SJL)

Describes a "writer's hotline" telephone program operated at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, in which English faculty address community members' writing problems. Benefits have included increased publicity for the department, improved relationships with the community, and gains in expertise in handling questions of English usage. (DF)

The author suggests that community action programs may not be widely adopted unless developers clearly state the benefits to students, reduce implementation time, and answer six questions about feasibility and priority of such programs. (Author/AV)

School systems must become more liberal in granting leaves to administrators, this principal believes. He advocates that schools exchange executive-level personnel with business, industry, and other agencies of the community to achieve horizontal growth among their respective staffs. (Editor)

Describes the Solutions model used at Shelley High School in Idaho which gives students the opportunity to gain practical experience while tackling community problems. This approach is built on the three fundamentals of an integrated curriculum, a problem-solving focus, and service-based learning. Sample problems include increasing certain trout…

Articulates the importance of integrating service learning initiatives into Catholic school curricula and outlines a model service program sponsored by Maria High School in southwest Chicago. Briefly reviews five essential qualities of effective service-learning programs, including: (1) service is conducted with and meets the need of the…

Discusses a holistic pilot program that was developed to deliver services to custodial grandparents, grandchildren, and school personnel. During and after completion of the program, observations and preliminary data analysis showed positive social and participation benefits for both grandparents and grandchildren. (Contains 26 references.) (GCP)

Integrated service centers have the potential to improve academic achievement in public schools. In this model, schools and community service agencies share spaces and programs and collaborate in planning. Issues of philosophy, organizational structure, management, responsibilities, and funding must be considered in their development. (SK)

Discusses the importance of competitions for gifted students and offers practical tips and techniques for utilizing competitions, not only to enhance talents, but also to nurture positive relationships between the school and community. Gives an example of a community's involvement in supporting competitions. (Author/CR)

Describes a college organization created to establish a partnership between Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty and students and neighborhood organizing groups. Reviews how faculty and student research skills are used to gather information for prospective projects, organization and actions taken as a result, and basic assumptions underlying the…

Discusses the relationship of scholarship to outreach in the college or university's engagement with community problems. Suggests use of four quality outreach dimensions: significance, attention to context, internal and external impact, and scholarship. Identifies tensions faculty involved in outreach may experience, such as maintaining clear,…

This article describes use of Resource Coordinating Teams (RCT) to: (1) integrate school-support programs and services for students with disabilities with one another and with community resources and (2) encourage services and programs to function in an increasingly cohesive way. Discussion identifies RCT issues concerning student patterns,…