College compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires that sensitivity to the needs of all students be a high priority for student activities programming. This includes attention to office accessibility, balanced representation on program boards, sensitivity training, accessibility of activities, and publicity designed to…

Cross-cultural skills are a major criterion for success in the global business environment. For students pursuing careers in international business, this means learning to manage cultural difference on three levels: self, interpersonal, and organizational. This paper describes five related and synergistic exercises that give college students…

This study examined the effects on older adults' psychological health of participation in a volunteer role that afforded opportunities to form friendships with age peers and to express nurturance toward another person. Access to these important social provisions was expected, in turn, to contribute to greater self-esteem, less loneliness, and less…

Intended as a reference for preventing harassment and discrimination in Ontario colleges and universities, this resource guide describes a project to develop models of alternative instructional delivery and presents the models. Part 1 provides an introduction to the guide, reviews the goals of the project, and describes a related training video…

Cultural therapy is defined as the process of bringing one's own culture, in its manifold forms and communicative modes, to a level of awareness that enables one to perceive it as a potential bias in social interaction and in the acquisition or transmission of skills and knowledge. Cultural therapy can be used to increase the awareness of teachers…

Seminar materials are provided from the Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Area Chamber of Commerce's Literacy Sensitivity Program, which assists managers in identifying workplace basic skills training needs. The document includes the following sections: seminar overview; conducting the seminar--the presentation, the video, the group discussion, and…

This manual contains a complete set of program formats, activities, and references covered by the Dare to be You Training Program. The program, piloted in a rural Colorado County, is designed for use by parents, youth, teachers, church, and service organizations to help them deal with adolescents' problems and to assist youth in developing skills…

An exploratory study was conducted during 1979 and 1980 to determine how Ohio teacher education institutions were responding to the state's newly implemented Standards for Colleges or Universites Preparing Teachers. The study's purpose was to provide an overview of two curricular areas addressed in the standards: human relations and managing…

Five teacher training modules on the topic of sex equity in the classroom were evaluated during and following a field trial at ten universities. Evaluation consisted of observation of classrooms, interviews with instructors and students, and pretest posttest attitude scaling of the students. The inquiry was intended to reveal the perceived…

THE BUREAU OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN OBTAINING AN EVALUATION OF THE EXPERIENCE OF FOREIGN VISITORS TO THIS COUNTRY THROUGH PERSONAL INTERVIEWS, QUESTIONNAIRES, AND GROUP INTERVIEWS. THIS PROJECT EXPERIMENTED WITH THE LABORATORY METHOD IN THE BELIEF THAT INFORMATION OF GREAT RICHNESS COULD BE RETRIEVED. THE PARTICIPANTS…

The intent of this manual is to provide counselors with essential background information about alcohol abuse among blacks and with a practical, workable model for organizing and structuring a training program. A general discussion of black self-awareness in relation to alcohol abuse is presented. An approach to counseling and serving the black…

This paper probes the conditions of student life and the needs of identity, self-esteem, and sense of personal worth and potency which can affect the students' readiness for learning. A number of crucial factors interact with the teacher's efforts to provide learning opportunities and to stimulate interest in curriculum resources. In creating an…

In keeping with the current trend in business education, this book adopts a "systems" approach to training. Objectives are first defined, and then training theories and techniques are used to reach them. Economic and behavioral aspects of training are discussed and many new techniques such as sensitivity, motivational, and human relations training…

Addressed to managers, students of management, and organizational development (OD) practitioners, this handbook concentrates on the joint management of change, and presents particular methods that have proved useful in realizing change within business, government, universities, and many other institutional settings. Beginning with factors that…

Forty-four prospective supervising teachers from public schools in Kentucky, cooperating in the student teaching programs of colleges and universities, participated in this Institute funded under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The objectives were to provide participants with a basic experience in human relations in an inter-racial setting;…