South Carolina's technical education system (composed of 16 two-year technical colleges) has been a key factor in the state's economic development program through industry recruitment and training, industry and community involvement in program development, and continuing education programs. (LRA)

Describes a contracted community college vocational program in which a local business or industry provides 12 hours of instruction per week to the student in conjunction with a minimum of eight credit hours of related on-campus instruction. (LRA)

Presents comments of Dale Parnell, president of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC). Explores AACJC's role as a responsive tool for member institutions, and as an informed, persuasive voice directed toward industry, business, and government. Enumerates organizational objectives. Discusses future community college…

Matching adult desires for further education with available educational opportunities requires brokering services in the community. The development of the Regional Learning Service of Central New York in Syracuse, which has served as a prototype for the development of educational brokering services, is examined. (Author/JMD)

Describes the management of the International School in Hamburg, West Germany, which serves children from 42 countries, and the school's attempts to formulate a workable curriculum responsive to heterogeneous needs and frequent changes in the national composition of the student body. (SJL)

Through Dean's Grant funding, the College of Education at Illinois State University (Normal) initiated a reconceptualization of its four-semester elementary teacher preparation program named "CORE." This article describes the collaborative program planning effort. One of seven Dean's Grant programs for PL 94-142 training described in…

Explains zero base budgeting and describes its use at Chemeketa Community College (Oregon). Suggests that better management, improved communication, and more economical procedures can result if all staff members and representatives from the community are included in the budgetary process. Provides a sample calendar. (JG)

Describes the underlying assumptions, setting, social forces, organization, students, and teachers in a unique, field-based course at Tennessee Technological University designed to teach the social foundations of education to education majors. (SB)

The author describes and analyzes the "dialogue workshop" as a major activity for facilitating cooperative communication and problem solving among students, teachers, and parents. This article is part of a theme issue on community education in Hawaii. (Editor/SJL)

The league of Cities for the Arts in Education encourages the integration of all the arts in all parts of school curricula for all children. An overview of the project and the individual programs of Hartford, Little Rock, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, and Winston-Salem are described. (JMD)

Describes a community education project in a sparsely settled area of Northern Ontario--its history and significant growth including the reasons why such growth occurred. Points out certain benefits that can accrue to the sponsoring agencies involved in community education and indicates in what directions the particular program which they have…

Describes the history of American Catholic schools. Discusses themes that have been prevalent throughout their existence: the survival of Catholicism, the immigration of Catholics to America, the variety of responses to Catholic schools, the adaptability of Catholic educators, the involvement of community, and the changes in Catholic identity.…

Twenty-four participants designed projects for a local community network related to a political issue. Results showed politically active respondents did not directly transfer their level of activism from real world to the digital. People with little Internet experience needed training and experience online before they discussed more active forms…

Summarizes the number of African American community college presidents in 1994, their educational backgrounds, gender representation, career paths, community involvement, institutional demographics, and level of representation in each state. Indicates that, despite an increase in the number of African American presidents over the past decade, they…

This column, the last in a series of articles dealing with partnerships in educating young children, focuses on partnerships developed with communities. Examples of the importance of community partnerships--including provision of comprehensive services to meet student interests--welfare reform issues, and the need to be politically active are…